Based on the missions of serving the population through running a school and practicing university social responsibility, FJCU is active in adult continuing education and uses the university’s teaching resources to provide guidance for individuals who wish to take continuing studies courses in order to substantially improve their professional abilities and practical knowledge and to open young people’s channels for finding jobs and starting businesses. Every organization within the university holds ad hoc and regular events, all of which are open to the public. For example:

1. Ad hoc events:
   The Center for Continuing Education at FJCU offers preschool teacher training programs such as the New Taipei City Training Course for Kindergarten Director, as well as a 20-hour training course for caregivers of people who have dementia. In addition, the College of Fashion and Textiles offers knitting courses such as Computerized Flat Knitting for Beginners and Practical Applications for Circular Knitting and Knitwear Design. The Creative Design Center occasionally organizes summer programs for the general public with the aim of enhancing students’ professional skills and competitiveness.


2. Regular events:
   The Center for Continuing Education at FJCU has been working with the Social Welfare Department of New Taipei City Government since 2017 to offer a credit program titled “Supervisors of Children and Youth Welfare Institutes (Nursery Service Centers)”. Since 2019, FJCU has also been entrusted by the Education Department of New Taipei City Government to hold a 20-hour training course titled “Seminars for Early Intervention Educators at Private Kindergartens”. Since 2016, the Creative Design Center has been organizing paid courses at the Center for Continuing Education on a regular basis for the general public with the aim of enhancing students’ professional skills and competitiveness.


3. Other professional courses :
   Since 2016, the Creative Design Center has been organizing paid courses at the Center for Continuing Education on a regular basis for the general public with the aim of enhancing students’ professional skills and competitiveness.

Open Courses for the Public in 2020:

Intangible cultural assets, flower-wrapping craftsmanship training program

When teaching silk-wrapped flower crafting techniques, courses typically focus on silk-wrapped flower art itself and lack both connections to modern life and information related to cultural assets. For this reason, when this the artist were creating this program for the intangible cultural asset of silk-wrapped flower crafting techniques, the program not only included the technical course teaching the art itself, but was also designed to go a step further and include interdisciplinary courses that related to preservation of cultural objects, explanation of cultural assets, traditional arts and cultural creativity, digital collections, local culture and modern life, museum and cultural asset preservation, cultural assets and marketing, traditional handicraft and fashion design. At the same time, an exhibit at the end of the course showcasing the items produced during the course promotes the beauty of silk-wrapped flower crafting to the public. This conforms with SDG4 goals of high-quality education and promoting lifelong learning.

Program of Family Life Education.

For the past few years, FJCU has been actively conducting professional certification training for individuals working in organizations related to family education. In accordance with governmental policy on the implementation and training of qualified personnel in academic institutions, and in consideration of the development needs of non-governmental organizations, FJCU offers family education credit courses. After they graduate from Taiwanese universities, FJCU invites scholars and related professionals specializing in marriage and family education to apply for professional certification in family education. This is one of the plans to promote future family education certification targets, with the expectation that FJCU will become a driving force for social impact.

1. Strengthen the knowledge and abilities of family education workers.
2. Assist family education workers in obtaining professional certification in family education.
3. Promote the establishment of interactive networks among organizations related to family education.