YUNUS CENTRE AND STARTBOARD

發佈日期: 31 5 月, 2017 作者: Vivien 阮河薇分類: Events

Before the Dragon Festival, STARTBOARD had a chance to meet up Professor Shen from National Central University. He’s also the Director of YUNUS Centre in Taiwan.

The Yunus Centre, is a think tank for issues related to social business, working in the field of poverty alleviation and sustainability. It is ‘aimed primarily at promoting and disseminating Professor Yunus’ philosophy, with a special focus on social business and currently chaired by Prof. Muhammad Yunus. Its Executive Director is Ms. Lamiya Morshed.

After Prof. Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2006, a personal office for Prof. Yunus under the name of ‘Yunus Secretariat’ was formed. From the very beginning on, the Yunus Secretariat was mainly aiming at promoting Prof. Yunus’ philosophy of social business and served as a one-stop resource centre for anyone interested in social business.
In July 2008, it was renamed the Yunus Centre and continues to develop new social businesses, provide technical help to social business start-ups and liaise with anybody interested in the topic. They also publish a quarterly newsletter on new developments in the field of social business.

We started sharing the ideas of STARTBOARD with Professor and introduced to him our Batch 1 project’s Research Stash. Not only coming with a lot of questions for the team, Professor was also very passionate in giving us advices and comments to improve our ongoing progress.

We discussed more about the Southbound Policy and its potential for both Taiwan and other parties and extended to the challenges that we all have to deal with now about the talents, the funds and etc.

Gladly, STARTBOARD has Professor. Shen and YUNUS Taiwan’s support for further programs. We are looking forward to collaborating with Yunus soon.

Meet STARTBOARD’s Inspirer

發佈日期: 24 5 月, 2017 作者: Vivien 阮河薇分類: News

Today STARTBOARD would like to make a post on our blog for Professor. Louis Chen (陳春山), our beloved teacher and one of the biggest supporters for the team.

First time meeting with Professor, people are tend to be impressed by how humble and friendly he is. With smiles, Professor creates a cozy environment and he always knows how to lead the conversation.

Professor Louis Chen graduated his LL.M. in School of Law of University of Washington, USA and LL.D. in Faculty of Law of University of Ottawa, Canada.

With the interdisciplinary expertise background and enthusiasm to the young, Dr. Chen served as various roles in private, governmental and public sectors such as the Chairman of Public Television Service Foundation; the Chairman of Chinese Television System Corp.; the Professor in Faculty of Law, National Taipei University and the visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley (Institute of East Asian Studies) & National University of Singapore (Faculty of Law).

Not just that, He was the Commissioner of Broadcasting Affairs Commission, Government Information Office; the Commissioner of Financial Reforms Commission, Executive Yuan; the Director of Securities & Futures Investors Protection Center; Taipei and Commissioner, Legal Affairs Commission, Taipei City Government and Partner, Chen & Associates Law Firm and the Associate, Baker & McKenzie. He was the Consultant for Central Depository Insurance Company as well.

Currently, Dr. Chen serves as the professor of Institute of IP, National Taipei University of Technology and the Professor in Faculty of Law of National Taipei University. He also serves as the Vice Chairman in Corporate Governance Association, the Chairman of the Association of Developing Corporate Organization and of course,

With the major concern in brand and leadership developments for enterprises and NGOs’ management systems, Professor Louis Chen is still working on different projects for international students. His huge support for STARTBOARD is a great example.

STARTBOARD’s member on Taiwan News

發佈日期: 23 5 月, 2017 作者: Vivien 阮河薇分類: News

Reference link: http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3169673

Indian student starts company while pursuing PhD in Taiwan

An Indian graduate PhD candidate’s journey to founding a startup in Taiwan

By Juvina Lai,Taiwan News, Staff Writer

2017/05/22 16:29

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Mahantesh Biradar, an Indian PhD candidate in Biomedical Science at National Yang Ming University and Academia Sinica, has founded a start up that will help his fellow international students find out about the latest research in Taiwan.

Biradar, 28, who was born in Vijayapura City in the Indian state of Karnataka, is currently researching the genomics of cardiovascular disease at Yang Ming University.

Before starting his PhD research, he worked as a teacher in an engineering college in India. After completing his bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology from Siddaganga Institute of Technology he went on to pursue his Master’s in Molecular Medicine from Amrita University where he studied the genetics of Indian Lung Cancer patients.

“During this time, I got more interested in translational medicine and I wanted to pursue my PhD research in subjects related to Molecular Medicine.” said Mahantesh.

“When I was looking for a PhD positions in Translational Medicine, I came across the International PhD program in Biomedical Science at National Yang Ming University Taiwan. I applied for the same and got accepted into the PhD program focusing on biomedical Science.” Mahantesh said.

“During my research for a PhD program in Taiwan, I realized that there is no dedicated platform for Science and Technology research which is carried out in various universities in Taiwan. This makes it difficult for students from another country to look for the right option for them. As international students cannot read Chinese, it makes it all the more difficult. That is when the idea of Research Stash came to my mind.”

“Research Stash is basically a collection of various resources which are useful for STEM researchers and also the latest research news from Taiwan. According to a research report from the Ministry of Education there were at least 110,000 overseas students in Taiwan and this number will rise up to 150,000 by the end of 2021. Therefore I feel Research Stash is definitely a necessity for these overseas students as well as for Taiwanese students.”

“At the moment, we are working to aggregate the latest research happening across various universities in Taiwan and we are promoting it globally through the Research Stash website and also through community building. We are also recruiting students/writers from various universities in Taiwan who would like to represent Research Stash on their campus. In the coming years we are planning to have feedback from various experts and target audience to further add various value added features on Research Stash.” concluded Mahantesh.

2017 G.G.C. Enterprise Interview

發佈日期: 16 5 月, 2017 作者: Vivien 阮河薇分類: Events

Last week, on May 13th, STARTBOARD and GGC successfully hosted 2017 G.G.C Enterprise Interview. This event is not only a chance for International Students to listen and learn from the guests’ stories but also a chance to introduce themselves and to drop the CV for job seeking.

In this event, we were so proud of our batch 1 Team Aimazing for their first product demonstration in Taipei, Taiwan. They have showed to all the guests that hard work paid off and nothing could stop us to achieve the dreams.

18403111_331922487226465_656405707898093301_n — STARTBOARD WITH BATCH 1TEAM AIMAZING

18403445_331922693893111_2215267923651704991_n — Team STARTBOARD

Also, during this event, the team has officially presented each member. Our team has a diversity of background and nationalities which strengthen our motto:” Together For Better”. Each member brings to STARTBOARD their own story while they decided to work in STARTBOARD, which we hope can motivate the young to get out of the comfort zone and contribute more to the communities.

18423881_331922493893131_2173448268635549082_n-1 — STARTBOARD with mentors and partners from: Louis Group, KPMG Taiwan, TRONXIN Accelerator, Taiwan Start-Up Hub, Committee of Communications, Industry Development Ministry of Economic Affairs,

Interaction session between guests and students

We would like to send our many thanks to all the professors, CEO, GM and others honor guests for bring to the event their experiences, their observation and advices, also their own inspiring stories. Without you, the event might have not be that successful. We are deeply obliged for all the support.

“Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.”
– Kenny Ausubel

Eugene Chien, Chairman, Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy

Meeting up with Political Deputy Minister,Ministry of Education

發佈日期: 27 4 月, 2017 作者: Vivien 阮河薇分類: Events

Following up the meetings with different representatives from Taiwan government, last week, on 20th April, STARTBOARD visited Ministry of Education and discussed with the minister about New Southbound Policy and related programs.

Understanding the potential impact of international students toward Taiwan, Ministry of Education is one of the very first firms, which starts running the programs for New Southbound Policy. Minister also shared to us his support for STARTBOARD’s upcoming events as STARTBOARD is the first incubator for ASEAN-INDIA students in Taipei, Taiwan. Despite of many challenges ahead, he believed the team could make some performances contributing to the growth of Taiwan.

” Live the Life of Your Dreams
When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart”

A visit to Director General of Small and Medium Enterprise Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs (中小企業處吳明基機處長 )

發佈日期: 26 4 月, 2017 作者: Vivien 阮河薇分類: Events

Our team had visited Dr. Wu Ming- Ji on 19th April. It seems April is a good start for the STARTBOARD’s team when having so many opportunities to meet up and present about the project to government’s representatives.

Dr. Wu is representative for Small and Medium Enterprise Administration. He showed an exact concern to the development of small and medium business from ASEAN and INDIA as a part of New Southbound Policy.

The team did present the purpose of STARTBOARD, and how the project could contribute for a better future between communities. Fortunately, Dr. Wu are fully interested in the presentation and expects to support for the team in upcoming events and projects.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

STARTBOARD kicked off a meeting with Professor Chen, Chairman of GBMA.

發佈日期: 19 4 月, 2017 作者: CharlotteW 分類: News

STARTBOARD kicked off a meeting with Professor Chen, Chairman of 全球品牌管理協會 (Global Brands Management Association) at National Taipei University of Technology to discuss the importance of retaining foreign talent in Taiwan and taking active measures to integrate them into the workforce. We also introduced him to Mahantesh Biradar, our Indian entrepreneur who intends to further contribute to the field of academia with Research Stash.

STARTBOARD visited One-Forty

發佈日期: 14 4 月, 2017 作者: CharlotteW 分類: News

One-Forty is well known in Taiwan for their contribution to the ASEAN migrant’s community. On 12th April, STARTBOARD team has a chance to meet Kevin Chen 陳凱翔, the co-founder of One-Forty. To contribute to the conversation regarding the inspiration and experience in working with ASEAN community, we were honored to join in the exhibition named “ 600,000 Journeys:六十萬個旅程;六十萬個故事” in Huashan Creative Park.

We are impressed by the stories from Indonesian migrants in Taiwan, aside from the display of work describing the daily life, the custom of Indonesian. More specially, it’s touching seeing the wall of notes showing the thankfulness for migrant contribution and the understanding of their difficulties.
It strengthens STARTBOARD team’s belief and passion that together, we can create more values for the society.