Our team had completed the "2019 Taiwan-Southeast Asia Regional Cooperation and Training Program " for the Toxic and Chemical Substances Bureau (TCSB), Environmental Protection Administration (EPA). All tasks were fulfilled, including the project start-up at TCSB on May 27th, and the course review meeting in National Yunlin University of Science ＆ Technology (NYUST) on June 12th, the submission of execution plan and amendment on July 1st, and the visit to Vietnam of Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi City from July 21th to 25th by project leader Prof. Horng, Jao-Jia and assistants Mr. Liu Ke-hong and Ms. Wu Pei-Chen to host three meetings with 21 participants. The itinerary also included visiting Vietnamese Chemical Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Hanoi University of Technology, the University of Science Vietnam National University Ho Chi Min City (USVNU) to exchange ideas and to promote this year's training program. We also held a seminar in USVNU with 60 participants and many discussions. This year's training course included both “education class” and “International class” with the helps from our Office of International Affair, Center for Extension Education and past participants. There were 26 applicants for the education class with 23 accepted (and one giving up). The class was held from August 12th to 16th at the YunTech and National Fire Agency (NFA) Training Center with 22 participants from Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan. There were 52 applicants for the international class with 25 accepted (and 3 giving up). The class was held from November 4th to 8th at YunTech, ITRI at Nantou and NFA Training Center with 22 participants from Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia. Our team had completed all the tasks before the deadline and proposed the conclusions and suggested the short, middle, and long term suggestions for future operation of training classes.

Southeast Asia, chemical incident training, emergency response