This project is focused on conducting experiential environmental education, through the mobilization and utilization of environmental education volunteers to raise environmental awareness of the public. The budget of the project is 8.635 million dollars, and the contract period is from March 14th to December 30th, 2016. This project consists of the following five missions: (1) conducting a series of experiential environmental education activities; (2) conducting environmental knowledge competition for volunteers; (3) organizing Taipei City’s annual environmental knowledge contest; (4) organizing environmental education training sessions, management, and utilization of the volunteers; and (5) raising environmental awareness of general public and businesses. All findings and achievements are as detailed below. 1. Conducting a series of experiential environmental education activities In order to promote concepts of environmental protection to the public, governments of all levels conducted various activities to celebrate important environmental dates. This year, a series of environmental education activities had been organized to celebrate four well-known environmental dates: (1) Earth Day (2) World Environmental Day (3) World Animal Day (4) International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction 2. Conducting environmental knowledge competition for volunteers Environmental volunteers help cities and counties by patrolling and maintaining cleanliness of their neighborhoods. In order to encourage these volunteers and enhance their environmental knowledge, Taiwan EPA had held environmental knowledge competitions for these volunteers for four consecutive years. This year, the competition was held on 10th of July. 3. Organizing Taipei City’s annual environmental knowledge contest The environmental knowledge contest was held annually to enhance public’s environmental knowledge. There were four categories of attendees: students from elementary school, junior high, high school, and ages beyond high school. This year, the competition was held on 5th and 6th of October. 4. US-Taiwan eco-school partnership program Six schools were elected to participate in the US-Taiwan eco-school partnership program. Among them, three were enrolled last year. This project was to help the Taipei City EPB to conduct the election process and to help the elected schools to execute the eco-school path. 5. Organizing environmental education training sessions, management, and utilization of the volunteers Taipei City has 197 environmental volunteers. Among them, 97 are still very active in the participation of environmental activities. The first training session for volunteers was held on April 25th. 6. Raising environmental awareness of general public and businesses. Taipei City has three different approaches to raising public’s environmental awareness: (1) conducting environmental training courses for business sectors; (2) conducting summer camps for students; and (3) organizing various environmental events for the public.

Environmental Education, Eco-Schools, Management and Utilization of Environmental Education Volunteers, Environmental Law–Compliance Training