For more than 40 years, the Finetek Group has always adhered to the belief of "taking from society and giving back to society", and regards this as the core driving force of our social care and sustainable practice. Every year we continue to review the past and look to the future, in order to achieve the vision of a sustainable and harmonious society while building a sustainable enterprise.
In 2023, Finetek Group’s total social investment reached NT$5,365,100. These investments include external charitable donations and
sponsorships, support for the Yilan Wusha Cultural Foundation, welfare committee charitable activities and business initiatives, etc. The Finetek Group and the Yilan Wu Sha Cultural Foundation continue to work together to care for employees, enrich local arts and cultural heritage, encourage national seedlings to improve, and support and care for life, and are committed to social care and public welfare related issues. Support cultural inheritance among students in remote areas, and guide art performances to cultivate culture. Through a long-term and sustainable cooperation model, we will continue to work towards the vision of a society of shared prosperity and well-being.
Finetek has listed "eliminating inequality", "quality education", "employment and economic growth" and "sustainable urban and rural areas" among the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations as its long-term goals. Finetek and Wusha Cultural Foundation jointly decided to focus on the preservation and inheritance of sustainable culture, art promotion, assistance to disadvantaged groups, care for remote areas, and funding and education for school-age children as the key implementation directions of social welfare this year, and actively organized various Activities are aimed at achieving practical goals.
Deeply cultivate cultural education Yilan Science and Technology Education Competition: Sustainable Growth for Local Students
The "Yilan County Science and Technology Education Competition and Digital Learning Forum" was held at the Yilan Zhongxing Cultural and Creative Park on January 4, 2023. The competition projects included: electromechanical, mechanism, energy, car, life technology and information technology application categories. A total of 451 teams registered, with 950 student participants, which shows that science and technology education has grown and thrived on Yilan campuses. The winning teams of the "Life Technology Application Group" and "Information Technology Application Group" will represent Yilan County to participate in the National Science and Technology Education Creative Practice Competition and the National Cat Cup Competition, standing on the national stage to compete with students from other counties and cities in the pursuit of Higher and farther glory and self-affirmation.
The Digital Learning Forum specially invites experts from industry, government and academia to participate and share digital education teaching resources and promotion status. Twelve pilot elementary and junior high schools in Yilan County set up "Technology and Digital Creative Learning Booths" on site to provide interactive courses using practical application learning tools, allowing parents and children to personally experience the new look of technology and digital learning.
This event is planned with "Digital Start, Parent-Child Together" as the main theme, and parent groups are invited to co-organize it. As a local manufacturer deeply rooted in the Yilan Science Park, Finetek Group has jointly sponsored the science and technology competition prize money and worked with the Yilan County Government to encourage Yilan students to participate in the competition, allowing the private sector and the government to work steadily with students to welcome the digital Yilan of individualized and independent learning.
Industry-university collaboration among colleges and universities to experience early workplace integration
For many years, Finetek Group has been conducting industry-university cooperation and joint development with many universities and colleges, jointly guiding their graduate students' theses, and developing forward-looking technologies through industry-university research. In addition to R&D industry-university cooperation, we also sign off-campus corporate internship contracts with universities to train practical professional talents, jointly promote internship cooperative teaching and practical training, and promote industry-university cooperation and exchanges.
In 2023, we carried out industry-university collaboration with National Taiwan University, National Yilan University, Chang Gung Memorial University of Science and Technology and National Taipei University of Technology, completing a total of 3 special projects and 1 special research paper.
In addition to the industry-university cooperation with the school, we also provide summer work-study opportunities for students every summer vacation, which enables students to understand the workplace environment and learn work skills before graduation to broaden their horizons. In 2023, a total of 5 interns (3 male and 2 females) with an average age of 22. They have 3 bachelor’s degrees and 2 master’s degrees. They all work in the R&D department.
Deepen the development of primary and secondary school campuses and continue to promote and deepen
Campus Deepening takes the primary and secondary schools in Yilan as the main promotion field, and uses storytelling interaction as the main expression method, so that Wu Sha’s story is no longer just a short and fleeting chapter in the textbook, but can allow Lanyang students to delve into local history. The beginning of recovering the memory of the land. Let Wu Sha’s story and the meaning behind it enter the campus, take root in the hearts of young people in Yilan, and then in the constant alternation of generations, we can still find the valuable aspects worth passing on. By the end of 2023, six campus development sessions had been held, with 356 participants.
Arts and Culture Competitions Arts Education Inheritance
The Wusha Arts and Culture Festival Art Competition has been held for nine consecutive years from 2015 to 2023, and has become a cultural and arts event that attracts attention across Taiwan every autumn. The 2023 Arts and Culture Festival has a total of 793 participants in the arts and culture competitions, including photography, painting, calligraphy and children's art competitions. With the theme of "Brave Creation", the photography and painting contestants will show Taiwan's positive start after the severe epidemic. Pioneering cultural spirit. The calligraphy competition has corresponding groups for everyone from lower grades in elementary school to seniors over 60 years old, and it has the largest number of participants, making it one of the most important calligraphy education competitions in Taiwan. The Children's Art Competition is a key project of the Foundation to cultivate students and promote arts and cultural education. Every year, it not only encourages many students to participate, but also awards and commends teachers who cultivate outstanding art seedlings.
Environmental Sustainability Action Beach cleaning legacy and sustainable environmental protection spirit
Following the Finetek Group Family Day river cleaning activity last year, this year's Finetek Group Family Day will be held on June 10th at Cao Luo Sand Dune Coast, one of the "Nine Coastlines Worthy of Protection in Taiwan", where you can enjoy the coral reef ecology and the rich Coastal forest ecology, while contributing to the sustainability of Taiwan’s coast. The number of participants in the beach cleaning activity was 217. At a time when companies around the world are actively moving towards sustainability, Finetek Group combines the original corporate family with the ESG sustainable spirit and hopes to join the ESG movement through the family day for employees and their families. Continue the river cleaning trip to allow company employees to participate in corporate sustainability related activities, so that they can understand and identify with the company's policies, spread from the inside out, and work together with the company for sustainable development goals.
Social Care Music performances and cultural education take root
The Foundation and the Man Xiang Chamber Orchestra will perform the "Song of the Brave: Wu Sha Memorial Concert" at the Yilan Performing Arts Hall at 7 pm on September 29. In order to revitalize local music education and cultural literacy, the event invites Xinsheng Elementary School The percussion band performed and was open free of charge to school-age children and adults in remote areas of Yilan. The number of audience participants was 494.
Charity booking for theatrical art
Finetek Group has spared no effort in promoting culture and art. On November 4, together with its partners in Tucheng Industrial Zone: Gudeng Precision Industry Co., Ltd. and Wellell Inc., the three companies jointly held the " The charity event of booking a theater for the stage play "Seventy-three Changes" calls on colleagues and partners to experience cultural influence through drama and regain the emotion of appreciating art.
"Seventy-three Changes" is produced and released by Story Factory. Story Factory insists on promoting the inheritance of drama culture and education with original Taiwanese stories. It combines opera with stage play to perform a touching story of reconciliation and tolerance with family relationships. A total of 1,036 audience members attended the event, and many employees and partners brought their families to attend. While spending time with their children, they also enjoyed an entertaining and educational drama performance.
Art experience increases cultural diversity
Inheriting the energy of the residency in 2022, the WuSha Culture Foundation keep working with three resident artists in 2023. The artists were in residence from April to July 2023. The artists has live art works on display in their respective residency spaces and bring multiple The handcrafting course attracted many people to participate. The number of courses and participants in the village has increased significantly compared to last year (10 courses in 2022, 132 participants), there are total of 37 courses and 210 participants in 2023, increasing the cultural diversity and artistic depth of the local community, and bringing different, the art form was introduced into the remote countryside of Yilan.
.png)
