Prof. Dr. Fumiko Kasuga (Section Chief, National Institute of Health Sciences, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan) and Prof. Dr. Bach Tan Sinh (Acting Director of the Research Centre of S&T Policy, National Institute for Science and Technology Policy and Strategic Studies, Vietnam) visited RSPRC on 24th Nov...
"2016 International Conference of Social Welfare Politics in Chinese Societies" was held by the Risk and Policy Research Center, College of Social Science (RSPRC) at National Taiwan University. The main theme of this year's conference was "New Risk and New Social Policy: Horizon among Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong." Prof Kuei-Tien Chou, RSPRC Director...
Prof. Dr. Susanne Rupp, the Vice President of Universität Hamburg, led a group of faculty members participating “2016 NTU-UHH Matchmaking Workshop” on October 12 and 13, 2016 at National Taiwan University (NTU). Prof. Dr. Kuei-Tien Chou, the director of RSPRC, accompanied with Prof. Dr. Timo Busch (Chair of Management and Sustainability, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at Universität Hamburg) to visit the RSPRC office...
Prof. Moura Quayle (Strategic Design with the Sauder School of Business and Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at University of British Columbia) participated the 2nd Challengers’ Meetup on October 27, 2016 at NTU. She then had a meeting with some of our RSPRC fellows discussing issues of the current difficulties of energy transition in Canada and Taiwan...
Ms. Bärbel Höhn, Chairperson of German Federal Diet, visited Risk Society and Policy Research Center (RSPRC) at NTU on June 29th 2016...
Recently, the currently substantially revised version ofEnergy Act, which saw its seventh time in fifty years to enter the Legislative Yuan to be reviewed...
Prof. Dr. Ortwin Renn, Scientific Director of Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Germany, came with a group of IASS experts visiting the Risk Society and Policy Research Center (RSPRC) at National Taiwan University (NTU). IASS and NTU worked together to held an International KLASICA (Knowledge, Learning and Societal Change Alliance) Symposium from Nov. 21st to 24th, 2016...
The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) recently unveiled its draft “national action plan for combating climate change” bill. It is a clear demonstration of the government's commitment to meet international standards decided at the Paris Climate Agreement, which came into force earlier this month. The bill is to be commended for setting out the main principles of the national response to climate change...