This is a method of cultivating a community of changemakers who are globally conscious and locally rooted, enabling them to grow with purpose and create a better future.
“ZA Share” (雜學校) originates from the concept “Share from Z to A,” symbolizing a bottom-up approach to sharing and learning. It promotes the educational philosophy of John Dewey, who emphasized that “education is life, and school is society.” ZA Share envisions society itself as a grand school where everyone can engage in lifelong learning and the continual pursuit of personal growth.
Founded in 2014 in Taipei, ZA Share is currently Taiwan’s largest education innovation platform. It is dedicated to bringing together and empowering diverse social innovations to drive transformative lifelong education. Since its inception, ZA Share has supported over 3,000 startups and educators both within and beyond the formal education system, accumulating more than 500,000 paying members and generating over 100 million online impressions, leveraging the power of collective creativity to maximize social impact and accelerate change.
ZA Share builds a dynamic educational innovation ecosystem through a combination of digital media platforms and large-scale physical expos, incubating new initiatives that connect the public with the market. Online, it utilizes digital democracy to uncover valuable insights and communicates them to the public through engaging new media formats, while bridging cross-sector resources across academia, government, and industry. Offline, it hosts Asia’s largest education innovation expo annually, which includes not only exhibitions but also international forums, talks, workshops, art events, business matchmaking, and Demo Days.
Beyond its annual exhibitions and expos, ZA Share