SOCIAL PRACTICE

Discuss the future workforce development model should put forward corresponding policies as early as possible

Invite the executive director of the Human Rights Convention Implementation Supervision Alliance to share the protection and claims of labor rights in the convention

Based on the International Labor Organization ILO C-188 Convention and forced labor indicators, the International Maritime Organization STCW-F and other international conventions, the local government of the source country of the crew, crew organizations, labor service companies, training centers, and fishery public associations in the destination country, Shipowners and intermediary agencies, using social dialogue techniques, link core stakeholders at both ends of supply and demand through issue discussions and agreements, and form a collaborative operation model for fair employment of foreign seafarers and appropriate labor. The research team of our school invited immigrant workers groups and NGO groups to form the "Fair Labor and Fisheries Sustainable Development Advisory Group" to establish a channel for immigrant workers to speak out. In addition, a dedicated website will be built to regularly upload the phased results of this research, which will act as a channel to strengthen communication with the government and the public, to build consensus among stakeholders.

The research project aims to review the labour affairs management of Distant Water Fisheries (DWF) vessels, in particular as a proposed policy response to the UN SDGs; namely the goal No.8 Decent Work and Economic Growth and goal No. 14 Life below Water. The research team will first provide an analysis of the phenomena of the employment of migrant fishers and its root causes. As the DWF vessels have been long criticized by the civil society and environmental NGOs and the worst thing is that the fishery product has been listed as a product of forced labour by the Department of Labor of United States. The research intends to adopt a holistic approach, taking the concept of the ecosystem to integrate the employment cycle of a migrant fisher. The ecosystem starts from the recruitment, training, posting from the origin country and the onboard working environment and conditions in the vessels of the destination country and the completion of work contract with safe return as the end of the system. The research team conducts action research, collaborates with the association of vessel owners and recruits 3 vessels per year as an experiment field. Subproject 1 aims to build up the said ecosystem that will include the core stakeholders. Subproject 2 intends to develop blockchain technology to enable the ecosystem with traceability, anonymity, incorruptible and encryption security. Subproject 3 aims to collect the onboard hours of work and rest provided by the management side and analyse onboard filmed data with AI. Subproject 4 intends to analyse the onboard data on the phenomena of working overload and abuse behaviour on site. The outcome of the project package would be able to provide evidence-based policy advice which is grounded with main stakeholders’ participation.

Invite "Luc Cortebeeck", the former president of the Governing Council of the International Labor Organization, to give a wonderful speech about the gap between Belgium and Taiwan

<p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">The Career Development Center of our school strengthens student soft power in the working field through the following three aspects: “career awareness enlightenment” → “cultivating career and core employability” → “promoting industrial linkage.</span></p>

The smallholders introduce their products with confidence, adding their own brand story in the second-times Exhibition and Sales.

The Forum focuses on bamboo economy trend and invites bamboo professionals to analyze on global bamboo market development which are related to SDGs issues and products.