Seven inspirational innovations from the Chinese speaking world selected 
To fulfill it's vision of cultivating global talents, the Sayling Wen Cultural 
& Educational Foundation partnered with HundrED, the Finnish innovative 
educational organization, attracted global Chinese education innovators to 
participate in the NXTEducator Summit held in Taiwan. Using a FIT+HUG 
perspective "Friendly by nature", "Innovative with diversity", 
"Technology-aware", "Human-centric approach", "Uniting multiple domains" and 
"Global view with local act", the advisory board consist of 26 international 
professionals who were able to indicate seven outstanding innovations. These 
innovations nurture FIT+HUG, with 7 chosen from the hundreds of applications 
submitted. For details of the seven outstanding cases, please refer to 
https://www.saylingwen.org/eng/NXTEducator.

Photo - https://photos.prnasia.com/prnh/20191220/2677632-1 
(Teresa Lin (fourth left) and Lasse Leponiemi (center) with 2019 NXTEducator 
chosen)

The Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation is committed to provide 
talents for future society. The foundation developed a comprehensive blueprint 
– TalentNXT, which includes K-12, university students, and professionals. The 
NXTEducator Summit, organized jointly with HundrED, focused on searching for 
educational innovations in the global Chinese speaking society that enhance 
attitude skills based on the six indicators: FIT+HUG.

15 Years of Findings Assist Taiwan's Education Innovation to Shine Globally

Teresa Lin, CEO of the Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation, stated 
that, "From the past 15 years of experience on enhancing K-12 education, we 
believed education must quickly adapt to the interdisciplinary, diverse, and 
changing environment that will become the norm in the future. Two years ago, 
the foundation began to promote education innovation, Global Highlight for 
Future, beginning with the identification of the most influential, active, and 
representative K-12 innovation advocates, allowing society to understand the 
value of diversity and educational outlook from different education models and 
share Taiwan's feature stories to the rest of the world. Since then, we have 
achieved great results, granting the Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational 
Foundation the opportunity to develop NXTEducator and a series of TalentNXT 
programs. This year, we established 'FIT+HUG' as the main theme that integrates 
the learning map of each stage."

Teresa further explained that, "K-12 is a fundamental education stage where 
personal character is developed, which is why the foundation believes that this 
time period is the most important timing in shaping a person. The foundation 
believes that in order to lead Taiwan into global connection and nurturing 
visionary talent, it is essential to introduce international perspectives and 
further develop education innovation. The 1st NXTEducator Summit recognized 
innovations that were elected based on science, humanities, society, 
environment, and innovative education aspects, allowing students to study and 
develop their career value through observing, expressing, and training 
innovative mindset."

HundrED: Chinese Education Innovation Accelerating Global Education Development

Lasse Leponiemi, Executive Director and co-Founder of HundrED, pointed out 
that, "We believe the most effective way to accelerate education innovation is 
to integrate the world's best education innovators and innovations. With the 
longest cultural background and traits, the Chinese society is accountable for 
25% of the world's population. Our partner, the Sayling Wen Cultural & 
Educational Foundation, has been involved in global talent cultivation for a 
long time and the Global Education Innovation recognition focused on 
employability, sharing the world's greatest education innovations is truly 
meaningful. The selected innovations fully represent Chinese characteristics. 
We are excited for this establishment and hope to continue to explore more 
cross-cultural education innovations."

Through promoting literacy, nurturing communication skills, and a series of 
experience programs to allow students to understand the concept and mindset of 
being humane, people-oriented, and empathetic, the Sayling Wen Cultural & 
Educational Foundation had been focusing on the K-12 education. With over 15 
years of experience, the foundation will use NXTEducator as a beginning to 
integrate FIT+HUG and realize the TalentNXT talent cultivation blueprint. The 
vision is to gather schools, non-profit organizations, and businesses to 
cooperatively nurture excellent talent and assist Taiwan innovation education 
to be acknowledge on a global scale.

SOURCE Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation