Saxony launches office in Taiwan to foster science and tech ties
Saxony launches office in Taiwan to foster science and tech ties
2023-09-21
The German state of Saxony has opened an office in Taiwan, to pave the way for TSMC’s semiconductor project in its capital. The Saxon Science Liaison Office Taiwan will help recruit talented Taiwanese youth and foster further scientific and technology collaboration. FTV reporter Stephany Yang has the details.
Located inside the German Trade Office, the Saxon Science Liaison Office Taiwan has officially opened. The office will facilitate science and technology exchanges between Taiwan and Saxony, which is Europe’s semiconductor manufacturing hub. Dr. Josef Goldberger will serve as the office’s liaison officer. The office will be a service center for exchange students from Taiwan and Saxony. It will also be the hub of a new TSMC training program.
Sebastian Gemkow
Saxony’s state minister for science, culture and tourism
This is very important for us because this will also be a point of exchange between students from Taiwan and Saxony. But it will also be a very important hub for the admisnitation of programs of which we will speak about later on at TSMC. It is a very important spot here.
Dr. Josef Goldberger
Liaison officer
I was working for the German Academic Exchange Service for the last six years. We will have real cooperation with different partners not only industry partners. I will be able to represent of course Dresden University of Technlogy and all the other research institutions and education institutions in the free state of Saxony. I think this is a very exciting task.
TSMC plans to set up a factory in Dresden, the capital of Saxony. Responding to a reported “culture clash” at TSMC’s fab in Arizona, Saxony’s science minister Sebastian Gemkow said that it doesn’t shake his confidence in working with TSMC. He said that Germans and Taiwanese share a similar work ethic.
Sebastian Gemkow
Saxony’s state minister for science, culture and tourism
I don’t have any doubts that being together with people from Taiwan. I think that the working ethic is very similar. People are disciplined like in Germany as well. This working culture is very similar. And of course, we will also prepare everything to make it most convenient for people coming to Saxony to Dresdin that they find some kind of community and some kind of ecosystem which makes them feel comfortable so I don’t have any doubts.
Dr. Ursula Staudinger
TU Dresden president
TU Dresden has a private economy arm which is TUDAG, and they are developing a special cultural special on-boarding program for the TSMC professionals to come and do the startup for the company. So we are very optimistic that this will work quite well.
TU Dresden, or the Dresden University of Technology, is one of the largest universities of technology in Germany. It will manage operations at the liaison office on behalf of all Saxon higher education institutes. It is estimated that 50 students from Germany will be sent to Taiwan universities every year to study and intern at TSMC.
Dr. Ursula Staudinger
TU Dresden president
This is a historical moment. We are opening our first science liaison office abroad here in Taipei. TUD is doing this as the coordinating university for all the Saxon universities. We will be signing the trilateral agreement between TSMC, the free state of Saxony, and TUD. It is really about, on the one hand, getting more and more engineering and natural sciences students interested in the sphere of semiconductors. And what we were discussing was getting into research cooperation.
Jorg Polster
German representative to Taiwan
Taiwanese company TSMC decided to go to Germany with a great investment, a comprehensive investment in the city of Dresden. What we will see now, that it is not just the industrial cooperation that will intensify between Germany and Taiwan, but this will be matched by the intensification to academic cooperation. This goes hand in hand. For that reason, I think it is a wonderful location to have this office here with the chamber. The office which is related very closely to the numerous German companies in Taiwan. Many of them are also active in the sector of semiconductors.
With the launch of the office ahead of TSMC’s Dresden project, the two countries hope to further strengthen education, science, and technology collaboration between Taiwan and Germany.
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為台積電赴德設廠做準備 「薩克森邦科技處駐台辦事處」正式成立
2023-09-21
台積電將在德國薩克森邦首府德勒斯登設廠，「薩克森邦科技處駐台辦事處」正式成立，聚焦強化雙邊半導體人才交流，明年春季將送50名德國學生來台交流半年，到大學學習，並到台積電實習。
位於德國經濟辦事處辦公室內，「薩克森邦科技處駐台辦事處」正式成立，該辦事處旨在促進台灣與歐洲的半導體製造中心薩克森邦間的科技交流，由Josef Goldberger博士擔任辦事處處長。辦事處除了替台灣和薩克森邦的交換學生提供服務，還將成為台積電新培訓計劃的中心。
[[薩克森邦科技、文化暨旅遊處處長 Sebastian Gemkow]]
"這對我們來說非常重要，因為這裡將成為台灣和薩克森邦學生間交流的據點。辦事處也將成為我們與台積電討論及審查合作計畫的中心，是一個很重要的地方。"
[[薩克森邦科技處駐台辦事處處長 Josef Goldberger]]
“我曾在台北德國學術交流資訊中心工作六年。我們將與不同領域的夥伴進行合作，不只是侷限於產業夥伴。我能夠代表德勒斯登工業大學，以及薩克森邦內所有的研究和教育機構。對我來說，這是一個令人興奮的任務。”
台積電計劃在薩克森邦首府德勒斯登設廠。針對台積電在亞利桑那州設廠碰到的文化差異衝突，薩克森邦科技、文化暨旅遊處處長 Sebastian Gemkow表示，這並不會動搖他們與台積電合作的決心，因為德國人和台灣人有著相似的職業道德。
[[薩克森邦科技、文化暨旅遊處 Sebastian Gemkow處長]]
"我不擔心和台灣人一起工作，我認為我們的職業道德非常相似，雙方都一樣遵守紀律，工作文化也非常相似。當然，我們也會做好一切準備，讓來到薩克森邦和德勒斯登的人，都能快速地找到適合的社區和生活方式，我有信心可以讓他們感到非常舒適。"
[[德勒斯登工業大學校長Ursula Staudinger]]
"德勒斯登工業大學有一個私人經濟部門TUDAG，他們正在為台積電的專業人士研發一個特殊的文化系統，讓他們獲得支持。所以我們非常樂觀，一切都會運作得非常順利"
身為德國最大的工科大學之一，德勒斯登工業大學將成為薩克森邦內高等教育機構與辦事處溝通的橋梁。預計每年將選出50名德國學生到台灣的大學學習，並在台積電實習。
[[德勒斯登工業大學校長 Ursula Staudinger]]
"這是一個歷史性的時刻。我們將在台北成立第一個海外科學聯絡處。德勒斯登工業大學肩負所有薩克森邦內大學的協調工作。台積電與德國薩克森邦及德勒斯登工業大學簽署三邊協議。一方面，要讓越來越多的工程和自然科學學生對半導體領域產生興趣，一方面，我們正在討論如何一起進行研究。
[[德國在台協會處長 Jorg Polster]]
"台積電決定在德國德勒斯登市大規模投資。現在我們看到，不僅僅是兩國間的產業合作會加強，學術合作也會隨之更加緊密。這兩者密切相關。我認為這個辦公室設在一個絕佳的地點，德國經濟辦事處與在台德國企業密切相關，許多公司在半導體領域非常活躍。
「薩克森邦科技處駐台辦事處」搶在台積電赴德設廠前成立，希望能強化台德間教育、科學和技術合作。
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