The Distinguished Taiwan Alumni Award is designed to:
- honor the outstanding achievements of people who have studied in Taiwan as a foreign student;
- enhance Taiwan’s reputation overseas;
- strengthen and maintain close connections and friendly relations between those former foreign students and Taiwan; and
- encourage current foreign students to learn from and emulate outstanding alumni of universities in Taiwan.
The selection of Distinguished Taiwan Alumni Award recipients will be made once every two years. In principle, between five and ten outstanding people will be selected to receive an award each time.
Any foreigner who has studied in Taiwan and completed a degree or a training program approved by the Ministry of Education and has achievements in one of the following categories is eligible to be nominated to receive a Distinguished Taiwan Alumni Award. There is no limit to the number of times a person can be nominated but they can only receive this award once.
Awardee achievement categories: Academic, Industry and Commerce, Political, Humanities, and Communications & Other: For deeds that have made a specific contribution or some other outstanding achievement in a category other than those listed above, which deserves to be recognized.
In principle, the Study in Taiwan Database Office will cover the cost of a round-trip economy class airfare between their home country and Taiwan and the other costs of a visit to Taiwan for each award recipient. The number of days they will spend in Taiwan as official guests will be adjusted in accordance with the budgetary funds available that year.
