The Netherlands will fund a program to train Taiwanese in the field of offshore wind energy, a rapidly developing industry on the island that is part of the government’s effort to promote green energy.
“More than 30 Dutch enterprises have been drawn to Taiwan towards the offshore wind farms to be developed in the coming decades, but they all face [a] shortage of talents,” said Guy Wittich, representative of the Netherlands Trade and Investment Office in Taiwan, yesterday at the program’s kick-off ceremony in Taipei.
A total of 20 talents in the initial stage of the program will be trained in maritime engineering, data analysis, and the operation and maintenance of offshore wind farms. The program is funded by the Dutch government and designed by Dutch universities and institutes, such as the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Delft University of Technology, and water research institute Deltares, in partnership with their Taiwanese counterparts.