Kaohsiung launches intercollegiate venture to cultivate top tech talent

Kaohsiung launches intercollegiate venture to cultivate top tech talent

2026-10-27

Amid surging demand for semiconductor and AI talent, the Kaohsiung City Government has partnered with two top universities to launch an intercollegiate research and education park dedicated to key national strategic fields. It will be near Lotus Pond in Zuoying, and with a budget of over NT$10 billion, aims to cultivate over 2,100 high-level professionals with master’s or doctoral degree by 2030. It’s a new bid to inject fresh talent into Southern Taiwan’s technology sector. Let’s find out more.

With the press of a button, construction officially begins on Taiwan’s first inter-collegiate research and education park dedicated to key national strategic fields. The initiative aims to foster deep, cross-institutional academic collaboration, with a goal of cultivating over 2,000 master’s and doctoral degree holders and attracting 4,000 professionals to the site.

John Kao
National Tsing Hua University President
In addition to what universities put into talent development, we are working together to foster the high-level professionals that Southern Taiwan needs.

Chen Yung-fu
NYCU Senior Vice President
Industry leaders tell me that we need to cultivate more talent, while students tell me they want to enter these key technological fields. The demand for talent today is likely more than a hundred times greater than it was forty years ago. Therefore, I believe that if we don’t act quickly, Taiwan’s competitive edge will gradually be overtaken.

To attract top-tier universities, the Ministry of Education will provide a budget of NT$10 billion, while the Kaohsiung City Government will facilitate inter-university collaboration; together, they aim to partner with enterprises to build a comprehensive semiconductor and AI industrial ecosystem.

Liu Kuo-wei
Deputy Minister of Education
Funding will continue to be poured in until construction is complete. The Ministry of Education truly views this as a top priority to benefit high-level talent development in the south, with the hope that it will one day surpass Hsinchu to become another major hub for talent development.

Chen Chi-mai
Kaohsiung Mayor
Our vision is talent development in Kaohsiung, technical validation in Kaohsiung, and industries putting roots in Kaohsiung, thereby creating a self-sustaining cycle of innovation.

Leveraging its prime location right next to the high-speed rail station—combined with cross-sector collaboration among industry, government, and academia—this research and education park will accelerate the industrial transformation of Southern Taiwan, as everyone bears witness to this historical moment.

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高雄132億研教園區啟動! 市府延攬清大.陽明交大進駐

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半導體人才需求大增，高雄市政府高市府攜手清華大學、陽明交通大學兩間頂尖學府，在蓮池潭畔三大基地，啟動「國家重點領域校際研教園區」六大建設工程，總經費約132億元，預計2030年前培育逾2100名博碩士高階人才，為南台灣科技產業注入新血。

按下按鈕，宣告全台首座，國家重點領域校際研教園區，工程正式啟動，要全面深化跨校教學，目標要培育超過2000名碩博士，並吸引4000名專業人員進駐。

[[清華大學校長高為元]]
“人才培育除了學校的投入之外呢，我們一起打拚，為南台灣教出這些，他們所需要的一些高階的人才”

[[陽明交通大學副校長陳永富]]
“業界告訴我，我們要培養更多的人，學生告訴我，他們想進這些重點科技領域，人才的需求比四十年前呢，應該要增加一百倍以上，所以我覺得我們再不趕快的話，其實台灣的優勢就會漸漸的被趕過去”

為了吸引優秀的大學進駐，教育部將支援百億預算，高雄市府則協助跨校合作，要和企業聯手打造，完整的半導體與AI產業鏈。

[[教育部政務次長劉國偉]]
“那預期會一直投入(經費)到他們蓋好為止，教育部真的是把這件事情看做重中之重，來造福南部的高階的人才培育，希望未來能超越新竹，成為第二個人才培育的重要基地”

[[高雄市長陳其邁]]
“我們是期待，能夠人才培育在高雄，技術驗證在高雄，產業落地那也在高雄，能夠形成一個創新循環”

緊鄰高鐵站的地理優勢，加上產官學跨界合作，這個研教園區將加速南台灣的產業轉型，共同見證歷史一刻。

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