Since the “TECO award” is positioned as an award for lifetime achievement, all the recipients are veteran researchers and experts. To encourage young people engaging in sci-tech research for energy conservation and carbon abatement and development of environment-friendly energy, material, and high-efficiency application technologies, the company organizes “Green Tech” competition, which has attracted completion of 603 teams consisting of over 3,200 students since 2006. The sixth edition of the competition witnessed participation of 498 persons in 95 teams, in the two categories of “main competition” and “international competition,” with the former accommodating Taiwanese college teachers and students and the latter attracting teachers and students from 14 topnotch colleges in Japan, Russia, Singapore, and China, contributing to the setup of the international green-tech image of the ROC.

Setting sight on the world, on top of deep rooting in Taiwan,the foundation started to invite excellent foreign college teams for participation in the “Green Tech” competition in 2010, facilitating exchanges between Taiwanese and international students and augmenting Taiwan's influence in the international green-energy sci-tech field, on top of helping the ROC in Taiwan set up an international image for green sci-tech. At an expanded scale, the foundation will invite 20 teams from six countries, namely China, Japan, Singapore, India, Russia, and the U.S., to take part in the competition in 2014, which is expected to spark a craze on green-energy sci-tech.