This project aims to develop green chemistry (GC) teaching syllabus, materials, and programs for advance education system; in addition, to develop GC education, academic research, and industrial developmental mechanism cross departments and institutes; moreover, to cooperate to promote GC in industries, governmental departments, education, and academics in Taiwan. The project has proposed a general syllabus for general education of green chemistry in Taiwan based on international green chemistry-related online courses, experimental methods, and programs. And 8 courses materials, including Introduction to 12 principals of green chemistry, Pesticides, Chemical substances safety, Experiment for identifying plastics, and so on., were established and revised by the editorial committee, and 6 teaching demonstrations were performed. This June, cooperating with the Toxic and Chemical Substances Bureau to participate in the 22nd Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference, and interview the 5 international and 5 Taiwanese experts and scholars to learn the experience to promote the GC general education. In conjunction with the domestic industries, we visited 30 companies (including chemical substances manufacture, recycling of recycled materials, paper industries, and electronics manufacturing) and conducted the questionnaires to explore the implementation of GC and their needs about labors’ working ability developed from to date advanced education. Production and process management is most important background knowledge they need. In November, we held 4 GC general education workshops for college students (n=230) and 2 workshops for GC training for elementary school teachers (n=54). Interesting lectures, such as Definition of Green Chemistry and Introduction to Environmental Susceptibility, Relationship between Chemicals and Environment, Toxicity and Waste Reduction, Green Chemistry Circular Economics and so on were presented. This year, the Toxic and Chemical Substances Bureau cooperated with the Ministry of Education to hold the green chemistry creative competition for nationwide colleges and universities, to provide a platform for college students to join the GC education activities. The winners for competition were public awarded in press conference in December 18, 2018. Two special consultation meetings had been held, and scholars from industry and academia were invited to discuss the details of the GC general education syllabus and program, workshops, and the green chemistry college competition.

green chemistry, education promotion, industrial analysis