Ministry of Education’s Regulations Governing the Establishment of the Academic Award Article 5

Each person recommending a candidate for an Academic Award shall complete their recommendation using the prescribed format and submit the recommendation, together with relevant publications and documents, to the Ministry within the prescribed period. A candidate who is employed as a full-time teacher at a junior college or a higher-level educational institution , or as a full-time research fellow at an academic research institute, shall first be reviewed by the junior college, higher-level educational institution , or institute where they are employed, which shall then submit a report to the Ministry. A junior college, higher-level educational institution , or an academic research institute may recommend up to four people in each disciplinary category, and the selections shall be made by the Ministry.A recommendation for a candidate for an Academic Award who has been conferred a Presidential Science Prize, or The Executive Yuan Award for Outstanding Science and Technology Contribution, or who has received a National Science and Technology Council Outstanding Research Award twice, which has been co-signed by two people in the same disciplinary category as the person recommended but not including that person, each of whom is either an Academician of Academia Sinica or a recipient of a National Chair Professorship, shall be submitted to the Ministry by the junior college, higher-level educational institution , or academic research institute where the person is employed, together with its other recommendations, after the junior college, higher-level educational institution , or academic research institute has approved the recommendation. The number of recommendations of this nature is not counted toward the quotas stipulated in the preceding paragraph. However, the maximum number of additional recommendations of this nature permitted for each disciplinary category is the same as the maximum number for each disciplinary category in those quotas.