Talent Cultivation - Yuanta Financial Holdings

Talent Cultivation

Helping to Educate

We continue to provide in-depth support for education and increase beneficiaries to protect the rights of disadvantaged students to receive fair and high-quality education and to provide employment opportunities to help young people become self-sufficient.

The Group believes in the concept of “giving back to society as we gained from society” and actively participates in cultural, educational, and philanthropic activities. We assist outstanding young people from disadvantaged families to continue their education without worry, protect students’ right to an education, and ensure they can receive equitable, quality instruction；to promote knowledge and skills for sustainable development; to provide internship and employment opportunities to help youth become self-reliant, and to build a sound social and financial ecosystem.

ACTION PLANS
Yuanta-FJU Dreams Take Flight Project Yuanta Scholarship for Outstanding Underprivileged Talent Yuanta Cultural and Educational Foundation Physician-Scientist Merit Award Group and College Internship Program
2021 GOALS	2021 RESULTS
Increase brand recognition and corporate image exposure by more than 20,000 times. Work with key partners to continue to help motivated students complete their education. Provide internship opportunities, increase employment opportunities, and create economic benefits. Provide ongoing scholarships to build equal access to education. Continue to nurture disadvantaged students and reduce the gap in education.	Operational Benefits Attracted over 22,000 instances of brand exposure. Students have chosen to work for the Group through participation in various sponsorship and cultivation activities of the Yuanta Cultural and Educational Foundation, and 17 employees have been recruited as of 2021. The Group has recruited a total of 97 employees (7 new recruits this year) through 2021 for its internship program with universities and colleges. Social/Environmental Benefits The total amount of scholarships provided was NT$37.78 million and the total amount of scholarships provided as the end of 2021 was NT$127.05 million. A total of 1,708 underprivileged students received support and 17,412 underprivileged students received support as the end of 2021. 97 additional job opportunities as the end of 2021.
2022 GOALS/2025 GOALS
Increase brand recognition and corporate image exposure by more than 30,000 times. Work with key partners to continue to help motivated students complete their education. Provide internship opportunities, increase employment opportunities, and create economic benefits. Provide ongoing scholarships to build equal access to education. Continue to nurture disadvantaged students and reduce the gap in education.

Public Service Highlights

Yuanta Outstanding Underprivileged Talent Scholarship

Education is the seed of hope in life. In order to help students who are motivated to study and whose families have difficulties in completing their studies, Yuanta Financial Holdings and Yuanta Cultural and Educational Foundation provide each recipient with a “Yuanta Outstanding Underprivileged Talent Scholarship” to the amount of NT$200,000, so that through direct caring actions, outstanding students will not miss opportunities to study due to financial difficulties.

The number of applications increased in 2021 due to the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. In order to help tide more outstanding students through difficult times, we have increased the number of scholarship places to help more young people become self-reliant through scholarships. A total of 66 students were awarded in 2021, the highest number ever, and a total of 349 students have benefited from the Yuanta Scholarship Program since its inception.

Dreams Take Flight

Since 2011, Yuanta Financial Holdings and Yuanta Cultural and Educational Foundation have cooperated with Fu Jen Catholic University on the “Dreams Take Flight” project, which has extended resources to rural areas around Taiwan through scholarships to cultivate talents, online warm companionship learning by digital learning partners, and physical classroom counseling. In order to prevent students’ studies from being interrupted by financial problems, Yuanta and Fu Jen Catholic University provide warm and deep companionship through scholarships, counseling and care and growth camps that have supported 117 college students and 6 graduate students from high school to graduate school to pursue and complete their studies with peace of mind and grow and thrive together with the program. In the past 11 years, the "Dream Take Flight" program has helped a total of 19,261 students from rural areas pursue their studies.