Community Engagement

Strengthening society’s digital technology capabilities to improve the capacity for solving social issues.

Short-term:

• Through “Genius for Home,” provide cross-enterprise mentor guidance, business model optimization, and impact assessment training to at least 15 high-potential teams each year.

• Hold Demo Days to bridge resources, accompanying 3 outstanding teams toward implementation each year.

•  Introduce MediaTek’s technology resources to help social innovation teams improve the efficiency and scale of solving social problems. 

Long-term:

• Support more than 10 social innovation teams to complete implementation within five years.
• Establish a regional social innovation network connecting more than 20 enterprises, NGOs, impact investors, and public sector entities.

Cultivate the next generation’s technological innovation capabilities

Short-term:

• Cultivate approximately 60 primary and secondary school STEM teachers each year, with at least 30% of slots reserved for remote and disadvantaged areas.
• Support 45 technology-related courses, camps, or thematic research projects each year to enhance students’ inquiry and practical skills.
• Build and support 15 local science learning circles each year, forming a locally operable science education support system in a “one school leads another” model.
• The Tech Girls program cultivates 30 to 40 parent-child groups and over 40 university women each year, expanding corporate employee participation to form an intergenerational support network.

Long-term:

• Support more than 100 primary and secondary schools to offer continuous technology courses within five years, and establish a community mechanism that supports the continuous capacity-building of 200 teachers
• Continuously explore innovative paths for primary and secondary school technology courses in the AI era, accelerating the adoption of emerging technologies in educational settings.
• Publish a Tech Girls action plan to expand advocacy and share insights with society.

Advance higher education and industry–academia collaboration

Short-term: Support academic research and foster the cultivation of talent in key fields such as semiconductors.

Long-term: Collaboratively develop cutting-edge innovative research.

Continue supporting arts and education initiatives 

Short-term:

• Build collaboration networks of corporate volunteers and external NGOs, advance the corporate employee volunteer culture, and promote social participation.
  
  

Long-term:

• Plan to launch value co-creation collaboration projects with a cumulative total of 10 local organizations over five years.

Social welfare projects: planned and coordinated by the MediaTek Foundation, with regular reports to the Board of Directors.

Industry-academia collaboration and cooperation with universities and professional R&D institutions: the foresighted technology strategy platform is responsible for reviewing and approving programs and supervising implementation. 

Funding: a total of NT$27.34 million was invested, of which NT$26.82 million was provided in the form of event organization, courses, scholarship and prize subsidies, and guidance services.

Equipment/material/goods donations: approximately NT$520,000 in cash equivalent.

Human resources: 7 foundation staff, 86 volunteers, and 118 related staff, totaling 211 people.

• MediaTek Foundation website: http://www.mediatekfoundation.org/
• MediaTek Foundation Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mediatekfoundation/
• Tel. number: 886-3-567-0766
• Genius for Home shortlisted team workshops, competition website, and customer service
  
• Online briefings for various programs

Held “Genius for Home”: reached 94 townships and districts across Taiwan, generated 132 proposals, and supported 3 impact-acceleration teams in post-competition co-creation.

Across eight editions, 33 teams have become registered organizations, with 28 in corporate form and 5 as non-profit organizations.

• STEM Course Creator Program: expanded to 48 primary and secondary schools across Taiwan.
• After participating in the Course Creator Program, 85.7% of teachers introduced generative AI into technology courses for the first time and adjusted course design in response to AI; 92.9% of teachers, for the first time in this program, guided students to solve real-life problems using IoT and hardware-software projects; 100% of teachers gained stable channels and platforms for professional teaching discussions through this program.
• 1+1 Science Circle Program: established 21 collaboration projects, supporting a total of 44 schools.
• Girls! TECH Action Program: 40 university women and 30 groups of junior and senior high school female students and parents, with extended campus ambassador activities; 42 female employee volunteers joined the support network, of whom 16 served as pen pals providing career guidance and 29 served as senior mentors and volunteers, accumulating 123 hours of service and building intergenerational growth support.

• Encouraged R&D and supported 3 university-level innovation and research centers.

• Responded to and supported government policies, forming industry-academia alliances with schools; injected funding and industry mentors to support the operation of semiconductor colleges.

• Volunteer activities: volunteers served 12 elementary schools around Hsinchu, benefiting 1,811 students.
• Sustainable Nanzhou Project: approximately 38,461 teachers, students, and local residents participated, promoting the cultivation of local culture in the Chaozhou and Nanzhou areas of Pingtung.

Practice-oriented social innovation and deep-rooted influence in local communities

Since its founding in 2018, “Genius for Home” has accumulated 2,666 proposals for improving hometowns over eight editions, gradually becoming Taiwan’s most representative social innovation platform. However, the end of a competition is never the end of change. In 2025, MediaTek officially transformed Genius for Home from a competition platform to an “Impact Acceleration Program.” The core of this transformation lies not in expanding the competition’s scale, but in a fundamental shift in role—MediaTek evolving from a resource provider to a “strategic partner co-creating alongside social innovation teams.” After the finals is where the real journey of impact implementation begins.

In 2025, a total of 132 proposals were received, and over 500 persons participated. The proposals to improve the hometown covered 339 townships and cities and touched on sustainable development issues, such as environmental sustainability, population aging, long-term healthcare, urban-rural disparity, and innovation in traditional industries, in line with the global SDGs and ESG.

To expand social participation, proposal training workshops were offered earlier in the submission period for the first time. This aimed to lower the barrier for the public in preparing proposals. Workshops included “Market Analysis Introduction” and “Social Innovation Proposal Workshop,” to guide participants to explore issues, propose value propositions, and how to evaluate the feasibility and market demand of social innovation proposals. This helps teams interested in the competition to clarify problem contexts and prepare suitable proposals for their communities.

In the 2025 cohort of "Genius for Home", we continued to engage ESG partners—ASE, Arm, and Cadence—and welcomed smartphone brand vivo as a new partner. The four companies established corporate awards and appointed senior executives as mentors to help social innovation teams advance their solutions. Together with MediaTek, five companies contributed a total of 20 executive mentors in 2025 to coach the shortlisted teams.

Among the proposals in the year 2025, 26 townships reached priority regional revitalization locations listed by the National Development Council (134 total). Nantou County had the most (5), followed by Pingtung County (3). Jianshi Township near MediaTek’s Hsinchu headquarters also had proposals, showing how social innovation energy has emerged to assist where change is most needed.

To understand the impact of technology in addressing social issues in local communities, see the 6.1.1 “Genius for Home”section of the 2025 MediaTek ESG Report.

Technology Course Innovation Accelerator – Empowering Teachers to Develop Tech Courses, Supporting Students to Solve Real Problems!

Now in its fifth year, the STEM Course Creator Program continues supporting mechatronics, IoT, and AI courses, encouraging teachers and students to solve real-world problems. With rapid generative AI development, teachers focus highly on integration. In 2025, the program strengthened exploration of repositioning tech teaching in the AI era and maintained student’s independent thinking while collaborating with AI.
The program structure is as follows:

In 2024, the “1+1 Science Circle” was launched—not an extension but a strategic deepening from “supporting individual schools in competitions” to “building locally self-operating, long-term sustainable science learning ecosystems.” In 2025, the model’s feasibility is being validated across Taiwan.

While women’s representation in STEM fields is steadily rising, the share who ultimately enter the technology industry remains low. To systematically close this gap, the MediaTek Foundation launched the Girls! TECH Action Future Design Workshop in 2023, grounding its approach in research from Taiwan and abroad on women in STEM together with on-the-ground observations.

Corporate social impact needs to be practiced among people. MediaTek formally established its Volunteer Club in 2012, adopting an employee-initiated model where members proactively form groups around social issues rather than receiving top-down assignments. This organizational design believes that truly sustainable public welfare comes from employees’ intrinsic mission-driven motivation. To further support employees in turning care into action, MediaTek Taiwan implemented volunteer leave since 2015, and since 2024, unified global volunteer leave to 16 hours per year, making “public welfare participation” a concrete daily option for every MediaTek employee. In 2025, the Club comprised seven groups: English Education, Reading & Writing, Popular Science Practice, Environmental Education, Stray Animal Care, Mountain/Beach Cleanup, and Elderly Care. 86 volunteers contributed 1,155 hours, serving 12 Hsinchu-area schools, benefiting 1,811 students.

To support Taiwan’s cultural development, we partner with the Lovely Taiwan Foundation to advance a long-term program in Nanzhou, Pingtung, deepening local culture and education. In 2025, we provided NT$3 million in sponsorship, with at least 38,461 teachers, students, and local residents participating. Program components included:

• Nanzhou Yingwang arts co-creation: together with 14 villages and 300 residents and students, we co-created a dyeing-and-weaving craft journey, culminating in an exhibition at Nanzhou Station.

• Publication series: the second volume, “南州人・庄頭生,” continued a cultural mapping effort to document the character of Nanzhou.

• Nanzhou Workshop: in partnership with Nanzhou Junior High, the “Sustainability Pillow Workshop” showcased rural sustainability through creative, aesthetic value-add.

• “潮旅行 × 南州鄉” local immersion tours, inviting participants to experience the slow rhythms of rural life.
  
  

The initiative enriched Nanzhou’s cultural development and arts ecosystem, injecting fresh momentum into the community’s sustainable development.

MediaTek promotes social inclusion through long-term community investment and employee volunteering, supporting locally relevant programs and encouraging colleagues to participate. Examples include our sponsorship of IC Radio’s “Zero-Carbon Future” series, which brings the public up-to-date insights on net-zero trends and developments, and our year-end Christmas Wish Adoption drive, organized with local NGOs near our offices to invite employees to grant holiday wishes and support families in need.