Taiwan delegation attends 2025 APAIE conference in Delhi

2025/03/27

A delegation from Taiwan is participating in the 2025 Asia-Pacific Association for International Education Conference underway in Delhi, India, highlighting the government’s commitment to promoting higher education ties with India and regional countries.
 
Led by Wu Cheng-chih, chair of Taipei City-based Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan, the group comprises 44 representatives from 15 universities. The delegation’s aim is to highlight Taiwan’s strengths as a technology hub and to attract more international students to Taiwan, the FICHET said.
 
According to the foundation, officials including Baushuan Ger, head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in India, extended their greetings to delegation members during the March 24-28 event. APAIE President Venky Shankararaman and Executive Director Louise Kinnaird also met with the group.
 
Taiwan is actively expanding educational cooperation opportunities with India to leverage the South Asian country’s large pool of engineering and technology personnel, Wu said, adding that he anticipates the two sides will deepen bilateral academia-industry partnerships to capitalize on Taiwan’s strengths in the biotechnology, information and communications technology, and semiconductor sectors.
 
The FICHET additionally hosted the 2025 Taiwan-India Higher Education Leaders Forum March 26 in Delhi, bringing together nearly 70 university leaders from the two sides. The foundation and the Association of Indian Universities renewed their cooperative memorandum of understanding first signed in 2010 and discussed their wide-ranging collaboration spanning semiconductor technology to the implementation of U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
 
Statistics from the Ministry of Education show that over 100,000 students from Asia-Pacific countries, including 2,500 from India, studied in Taiwan during the September 2024 to June 2025 academic year, accounting for 87 percent of all international students, the FICHET said. The foundation added that Taiwan will continue recruitment and retention programs for international students to boost the country’s educational exchanges and personnel flow with regional partners.


Source:  Taiwan Today (https://taiwantoday.tw/index.php)