In recent years, the intercollegiate cooperation and co-creation, resource integration and sharing have become a trend. The Taiwan Comprehensive University System (TCUS) composed of National Chung Cheng University (CCU), National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), and National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) held the “Annual Taiwan Comprehensive University System Executive Committee and Administrative Meeting” in CCU on December 13th. The meeting not only invited more than 70 representatives from 9 working circles of the Taiwan Comprehensive University System to share their teaching activities, research results and other experience exchanges, but also awarded innovative research and development awards for young scholars, rewarded outstanding research scholars from each college, and discussed the future plan for the new year and the way of cooperation between the four colleges.

Looking back to the annual results of those working circles, the TCUS has demonstrated the advantages of intercollegiate cooperation. Not only the library affairs establishes the TCUS research’s originality comparison system project, the international affairs promotes the intercollegiate cooperation plan, the general affairs also deals with the professional knowledge training camp for new teachers, digital courses promotion, and academic affairs organizes the cross-field career creativity competition, allowing teachers and students of the four schools to acquire new knowledge through the competition and acquire practical skills in the process of implementing various projects. In addition, the research and development affairs conducts outstanding young scholars' camps and innovation selecting activities through intercollegiate project awards. Plus, it also conducts the SDGs collaborative research projects, promoting research exchanges among teachers and creating academic achievements with practical value. 

Zhang-Hua Fong, president of CCU who hosted the meeting this year, said that in recent years, those affairs of each school have been affected by the pandemic. The annual CHCW Cup, which is TCUS annual sports competition, is postponed due to the concerns of students and teachers’ health. As the pandemic gradually subsides, many affairs are getting back on track. He also mentioned that all schools have achieved co-creation, sharing, and consensus in terms of resource integration, and have further strengthened their advantages in the field of teaching and research, improved the professional capabilities of teachers and students, and become more competitive in the industry and the world. It's obvious that TCUS, as a platform for their first-phase cooperation and communication, plays a very important role.

President Fan-Sen Wang of the Taiwan Comprehensive University System also affirmed the annual intercollegiate cooperation achievements from various work circles and hoped that the TCUS will achieve teaching innovation and interdisciplinary research in the future. Dr. Wang pointed out that this year, the humanity and social science centers of four schools have joined hands together, with the “Island Chain Humanities” as the core and proposed the "TCUS Humanities and Social Science Research Strategic Alliance Project”, which was funded by Jun-Ji Zhou, the founder of Sinyi Realty, with ten million NT dollars. The project will explore Asian island chain relations, geographical knowledge and regional studies from the aspect of cultural significance and strengthen the exchange between the knowledge of humanity and talents through master lectures, publication of series or special books, micro-credit courses and workshops from 2023. 

With the support of the Ministry of Education, four major landmark universities in central and southern Taiwan, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) and National Chung Cheng University (CCU), were integrated into the Taiwan Comprehensive University System (TCUS) in 2011. According to CCU. TCUS aims to fulfill various collaborations and exchanges with regard to academic research and development, which can lead to the innovation, change and empowerment of teaching. It is hoped to not only promote teachers and students to acquire more knowledge and have outstanding performance, but also assist the four schools to face the challenges of future learning generation. At the end, the system will be able to create the significant influence in education and set up a new standard for Taiwan’s higher education system.