About AIM-I
Taiwan's only ageing industry programme grounded in indigenous cultural knowledge. Come with curiosity. That's enough.
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Three core competencies, four years of real-world learning. Start building your portfolio from day one.
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Faculty, mentors, students: everyone here brings real stories and real questions.
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About AIM-I
Taiwan's only ageing industry programme grounded in indigenous cultural knowledge. Come with curiosity. That's enough.
Key Numbers
Taiwan has entered a super-aged society
In 2025, the share of Taiwan's population aged 65 and over passed 20%. Ageing is no longer a demographic issue for the future. It's already reshaping how people live, what they need, and where industries are heading.
Indigenous population, facing a different kind of ageing future
As ageing reaches deeper into Indigenous communities, the questions go beyond care alone: culture, daily life, health, place and industry all come into play. Helping community members live well within their own culture and land is opening up new service needs and opportunities.
Rethinking the ageing industry, starting from cultural knowledge
AIM-I doesn't treat Indigenous culture as an add-on to the curriculum. It brings cultural knowledge into how we think about ageing society and industry: starting from people's everyday lives, connecting management, service, design and local development, to explore what an ageing industry could look like for Taiwan, and for Indigenous communities.
Turning learning into something you can actually build
Starting in their first year, students step into real-world settings (observing, doing, visiting industry sites and working alongside mentors), turning what they learn in class into proposals, services and projects: outcomes they can carry with them, explain clearly, and show to others.
Our Belief
Taiwan's ageing education has a persistent gap: care professionals understand people but not markets; management graduates understand markets but not people. AIM-I cultivates those who can stand in the middle and bridge both.
The care wisdom passed down through indigenous communities is exactly the energy needed to fill this gap. No management programme asked this question. Until AIM-I.
We welcome those who know exactly what they want, and those who are still figuring it out. You don't need to arrive with all the answers. Bring your curiosity.
"We don't fit indigenous culture into Western ageing service models. We redefine the starting point of the problem from cultural knowledge. The most important thing this programme does is help students understand: you have the power to define the problem."
— AIM-I Core BeliefWhy AIM-I
In the past, ageing-related education mostly started from distinct professions (care, health, social welfare or management), each building important knowledge and practice of its own.
But as ageing enters everyone's life, family, community and industry, we need more people who can cross professional boundaries: understanding ageing and understanding culture; seeing what people need, and having the ability to connect community, service and enterprise.
AIM-I begins from exactly this new need.
Result: Each side specialises alone; cross-domain capability is seriously lacking
• Hard to integrate ageing expertise with industry resources
• Cannot precisely meet older adults' diverse needs
• Weak service innovation, low market competitiveness
• Talent lacks cross-domain integration ability
Composite Ageing-Industry Management Talent
Precise Insight
Understand older adults' diverse needs
Innovative Design
Integrate resources into high-value services
Market Competitiveness
Create sustainable value, survival and growth
Cultivating cross-domain talent with ageing expertise × industry management × cultural sensitivity,
driving innovation in the ageing industry
About Our Mark
The AIM-I mark isn't just design. Four diamonds, four patterns: each one names an ability our graduates carry with them. The small diamond at the centre is the culture that holds them together.
A winding, mountain-path pattern: a reminder that growing old is a journey, not a problem to be solved.
A geometric pattern drawn from tribal weaving: the deepest cultural root this programme stands on.
Rings rippling outward: what it looks like when tribes and communities learn and thrive together.
A wave-like pattern: the rise and fall of challenge and opportunity in running a business.
Standing at the centre, connecting all four: culture is where everything at AIM-I begins.
Our Mission
Indigenous care wisdom is the most difficult-to-replicate competitive advantage in today's ageing industry.
Taiwan's AgeTech sector, long-term care institutions, and community organisations are expanding fast, with a growing talent gap.
We cultivate people who can read a financial statement and listen to what an elder is really saying. Both skills matter equally.
What's Next?
Three core competencies and a real-world learning journey that begins from year one.
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