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8.3
Education Foundation
The purpose of establishing the CTCI Education Foundation is
to enhance the standard of education, nurture exceptional talent,
reward academic and technical research, construct a lifetime
learning environment, and to promote national competitiveness.
The primary objective of the Foundation is to propose scholarships
to footer talent, and besides rewarding scientific research through
promoting green educational seminars, we also host community
and LOHAS educational events to construct a lifetime learning
environment. Currently, the Board of Directors has 7 members,
including 4 supervisors from CTCI and 3 external personnel. A
Director from CTCI serves as the Chairman and has established
a CEO role, and the position is served by the President from the
Executive Management Office. CEO manages a Supervisor, and
four units including Planning, Legal, Finance, and Volunteering.
Besides recruiting external personnel for planning, all the other
roles are filled by CTCI personnel.
Primary objective of the
Foundation
Method
Nurturing Talents
Supervisor
● Updating process technologies or adopting optimal process designs
● Recycling waste heat from processes or using regenerative thermal oxidizer for treating VOC
waste gases (Note 1).
● Recycling reusable steam condensate as water supply for the deaerator; Reusing waste water
from processes after being sorted and treated.
Rewards for Academic
and Technical Research
● R&D Plan: promote engineering and academic research and to incorporate engineering schools
or organizations to co-organize R&D Plan.
● Host forums and seminars: invite engineering experts, scholars, and competitors to collaborate
and host forums and seminars.
●Organizational Sustainability Alliance: call on firms in CTCI's supply chain and competitors to
promote eco-friendly and energy-conserving innovative techniques and green engineering.
Moreover, to integrate engineering technology, finance, HR, and resources, and to collaborate on
disaster-relief, and new or reconstruction engineering projects.
Forming a Lifetime
Learning Environment
● Community environmental education and cultural promotions: cohost routine regional and
representational activities with local groups to be closer to the local community and facilitate
in the promotions of environmental education and the local culture, as well as to enhance the
Company's corporate image.
● Caring for the underprivileged groups: offer opportunities for charity sale and facilitate in setting
up booths, donate computers to students in remote areas, and offer online engineering courses.
Corporate Volunteering
● Promoting the Foundation: during initial phases of the Foundation, CTCI colleagues could utilize
a variety of channels to understand the purpose of the Foundation, and to form volunteer groups
to facilitate in the hosting of various main events, under the collective vision of giving back to the
community and to lend a helping hand. Moreover, colleagues could also cohost social welfare
events in coordination with the CTCI Welfare Committee and other interest groups. In addition
to providing funds for the events, CTCI also hosts annual appreciation luncheon to reward
outstanding volunteers.
● Event sponsorship: established "Procedures for funding donations for charity events" to encourage
volunteer groups to promote large-scale charity activities in collaboration with other foundations
and nonprofit groups to implement CSR in practice.
