About AIM-I
Taiwan's only ageing industry programme grounded in indigenous cultural knowledge. Come with curiosity. That's enough.
Study
Three core competencies, four years of real-world learning. Start building your portfolio from day one.
Our Partners
Faculty, mentors, students: everyone here brings real stories and real questions.
Collaborate
No formal proposal needed: a venue, a problem, or just an idea is enough to start.
Apply
Certain or not, bring your curiosity. We respond to every question seriously.
AIM-I students need to step into real environments, face real problems, and receive real feedback. You don't need a formal collaboration plan: an idea is enough.
Have an idea? Let's talk →ways to collaborate
any size organisation welcome
mentor sessions per year
one hour, small group
response time
for any size of idea
is enough to start
no full plan needed
Why we need you
Knowledge in a classroom is organised, named, simplified. But the problem itself never waits in a classroom.
What feels like a routine operational challenge to you is often precisely the kind of problem that most needs to be redesigned. Your field experience is a case study no management textbook can reproduce.
And you will see: a new generation carrying management tools, cultural perspective, and design thinking, looking at your familiar industry field with fresh eyes.
"Your real problems are the best curriculum. Whatever the size of your organisation, there is a place for you to contribute."
— AIM-I Collaboration PhilosophySilver Industry Field Visit
What the ageing industry really looks like usually happens on the ground, in everyday work.
How a service actually runs, how a team responds to needs, how a new idea moves from concept into real life: these lived processes are exactly what helps students understand the ageing industry.
We invite partners across different fields to open their doors, so students can step into industry, tribal communities and neighbourhoods, and see how an organisation works, how it faces problems, and how it makes decisions, big and small, every day.
You don't need to prepare a lesson.
A real workplace already has plenty worth learning from.
For students, this is the first step in connecting the classroom to the real world; for you, it's also a chance to meet the next generation.
One visit might just be a visit. But it might also be the start of the next collaboration.
Ageing Industry Sprint
Every field in this industry has questions still looking for answers.
Maybe a service is searching for a new direction, a group of users' needs haven't really been understood, or a place is facing a new challenge in ageing life.
Bring the problem to AIM-I.
Starting from your problem, students spend a semester understanding the field through observation, interviews, research and design methods, gradually developing their own perspective and proposal, then presenting it to you and our partners.
We don't expect there to be only one right answer.
What matters more is bringing industry experience, local knowledge and a younger generation's observations together around the same problem, to see what becomes visible that wasn't before.
All you need to bring is a problem worth thinking about together.
We'll find the answer from there.
Ageing Industry Field Guide
What exactly is the ageing industry?
It might happen at a tech company, or it might show up in a community, a tribal village, a life service, culture, health, or a local industry.
We want to step into the field again and again, recording what different people are doing, what problems they're responding to, and how they imagine the future of an ageing society.
Every site is a window through which students come to understand this industry.
As these different experiences accumulate, we'll gradually see that the ageing industry can take many different shapes.
Cities have their own methods, tribal communities have their own wisdom; an established company has its experience, and a place just starting out has a story worth being seen too.
Page by page, it builds up.
And this Field Guide grows together with an industry that is still taking shape.