Since the establishment of APRC in 2019, with two full years of operation from 2020 to 2022, the vision and operation direction of APRC has been established through four advisory committee meetings and external consultation meeting in the first year, as well as holding two international workshops, one online workshop and three classes of International Environmental Issues and Education workshops for youth. This year, continuing from last year’s work, the Advisory Committee now consists of a total of 11 consultants from 8 countries, including experts and practitioners from home and abroad, with 4 virtual meetings been held. We also organized an International Environmental Issues and Education workshop, this year focusing on how livestock industry conbined with circular economy, 26 participants learned Taiwan’s experience in Pingtung. After two years of waiting, now the gate of country has finally opened to the world again, we successfully invited experts and scholars from all over the world to Taiwan to participate the International Workshop. These experts and scholars from Asia-Pacific region countries came together having a five-day Environmental Education trip. They participated in the symposium organized by APRC as speakers, sharing their expertise in different environmental education fields. And APRC even arranged activities such as snorkeling and canoeing for them to experience the geographical advantages and marine environmental education of Taiwan as an island. In addition, this year, we launched the pilot program of International Internship Project. Although it was still a pilot program, we received 24 applicants to compete for 4 quotas to gain experience abroad. And these interns submitted their reviews to APRC after they came home, and we hope to further extend this internship project to a bigger scale and sustaining event based on their feedback. As for the maintenance and operation of APRC website, this year, APRC presented “Green Anniversaries” in every month as special feature and promote environmental education events aperiodically. At least 2 articles were updated per month to increase its visibility and exposure, and to achieve the vision of GEEP APRC. Overall, this is an international project in the Asia Pacific region, which is difficult to implement due to geographical and language barriers, and the impact of the pandemic force to change the original plan. After two years of operation, the team is now thinking of more approaches to organizing international activities. Perhaps other social media or resources can be developed to conduct activities, which is believed can enhance Taiwan's international image and promote the experience and achievements of environmental education to the world even better.

International Exchange, Environmental Education, Asia-Pacific Region