From Editorial: Happy New Year 2021
Cheers to health, happiness, and prosperity
One of the real joys of this moment is the opportunity to wish everyone the very best for the New Year 2021. 2020 will be a year seared in all our memories as the COVID-19 pandemic has brought so many changes and challenges to our lives. On behalf of Universitas Diponegoro, we are thankful for the support and the rewarding experience shared with our faculty staffs and students even in this unfavorable condition. We are looking forward to experience more with renewed energy in 2021. Please stay safe and stay productive!
Editorial Team: Ambariyanto; Denny Nugroho S; Dessy Ariyanti; Diana Nur Afifah; Ahmad Ni’matullah Al-Baarri; Utami Setyowati; Wuri Sayekti. Office: Widya Puraya Universitas Diponegoro, Jl. Prof Soedarto SH Tembalang, Semarang, Indonesia 50275. Email: kankat@live.undip.ac.id
Webinar Undip-ADB Series 2020: Future Education, Sustainable Cities and SDGs
Universitas Diponegoro in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank organized Undip-ADB International Webinar Series 2020. The webinar discussed “Future Education, Sustainable Cities and SDGs”. The event were started by the opening speech from Prof. Budi Setiyono, S.Sos., M.Pol.Admin., PhD as Vice Rector for Academic and Student Affairs. The introductory remark was delivered Dr. Bambang Susantono as Vice President of ADB. There were four experts invited as speakers in this International Webinar.
The first speaker was Dr. Brajesh Panth, Head of Education at ADB presented “The Future of Education in Asia and the Pacific”. The second speaker was Dr. Wiwandari Handayani from Center of Urban and Regional Resilience Research (CURE) Universitas Diponegoro discussed “Critical Aspects to Achieve Goals 4 and 11 SDGs in Indonesia”. “Education for Gross National Happiness in Bhutan” were delivered by Dr. Kanokpan Lao-Araya, Country Director ADB for Bhutan and “Towards Sustainable Cities: Bringing Planning and Education Closer” discussed by Dr. Ashok Das from the University of Hawaii, USA. The discussion was very interactive and around 4500 participants from 23 countries joined the webinar via zoom and YouTube. In continuation of this collaboration, there will be a joint research and another webinar series will be conducted near the future.
The 5th International Conference on Indonesian Social & Political Enquiries (ICISPE) 2020
The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of Universitas Diponegoro organized an international conference ICISPE 2020 that presented 100 papers of scientific works on socio-political studies. The 5th ICISPE was held on September 9-10, 2020 by online through Zoom and live streaming on UNDIP TV official YouTube channel with the theme of “Shaping the Future: Empowering Indonesian Human Resource for Better Quality and Competitiveness”. The event was divided into two series of events with two main agendas, the first was a general exposure by experts discussed the main theme of the conference, and the second was a panel discussion as a socialization event to discuss conceptual thoughts and research results from the framework.
Information Literacy Webinar
The Library Science Program, Faculty of Humanities (FIB) Undip collaborated with Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia in the event of Virtual Visiting Lecturer using Zoom platform. About 280 Library Science students and lecturers from various universities joining the webinar with the theme “Information Literacy VS Digital Literacy“ delivered by Dr. Shamila Mohamed Shuhidan from UiTM and moderated by Yanuar Yoga Prasetyawan, lecturer of Library Science Program, FIB, Undip.
In the webinar, Dr. Shamila Mohamed Shuhidan explained about the development of information literacy including what standards and skills a person needs to become a literate person in the information age. She stated that information literacy contains the way how a person finds, evaluates, and uses and manages information, while digital literacy is more to the use of digital technology in processing information. In addition, according to her, skills in information literacy are important to have and always be honed because it is a long-life learning. When a person becomes an information literate society, he can achieve all his goals until the end of his life as he has already got informed. Therefore, information literacy is very important to teach to students in the scope of schools and universities as well as for workers. The communities must be able to adjust their literacy level according to their respective fields.
Lex Proficia – Law Summer School Program 2020
Faculty of Law Universitas Diponegoro organized a Virtual Summer School Lex Proficia with theme “Law Exchange Program for Introducing the Indonesian Culture”. The opening ceremony was held on Monday 16th November 2020. This program is directed to reach Law students from foreign universities who have an interest to explore knowledge in Indonesian law, cultural exploration, and legal practice skill in the form of learning in class, virtual tour, discussion and cultural exchange. The first session discussed about Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration and Exploitation and The Law of The Sea presented by Associate Professor Hossein Esmaeli from Flinders University, Australia.
Undip Summer Course in International Economics and Business 2020
The fast-evolving world of economy and business trigger people’s innovation and creativity to follow the development as well. Many challenges and problems arise along the economical development. This is good times to dig the experts’ ideas and suggestion in a course or seminar. This is what Faculty of Economics and Business UNDIP did by inviting speakers from several countries to discuss about “Achieving SDGs and Building Resilience in The Global Uncertainty from Economics and Business Perspective in a short summer course program. The program held from October 26th to November 20th 2020 using Zoom meeting platform.
Research Collaboration in Business and Entrepreneurship of UNDIP-ERASMUS+
In order to improve and develop an entrepreneurial spirit on campus, Undip collaborates with the SMART Project and ERASMUS+. SMART Project is a university business engagement project in Indonesia to support work ability and transition into labor market for graduates. This collaboration also involves 10 state and private universities both from domestic and overseas universities such as Alma Mater Studiorum Università in Bologna (UNIBO) in Italy, Agora Institute for Knowledge Management (AGORA) in Alicante, Spain, and the University of Turku (UTU) in Turku, Finland.
The SMART Project is motivated by the impact of a solid business-university relationship on broad socio-economic growth in the current European Strategy 2020. Meanwhile, in European countries, business-university cooperation has increased in recent decades. Thus, it shows evidence that a critical need for good models and practices is needed for creation of strategies and instruments in this domain, since the interaction between universities regarding entrepreneurship is still rare. This collaboration can integrate lessons learned in Europe into the context of Partner Country (PC) which are the target of initial action of SMART Project. This project is carried out with the aim of increasing capacity and skills of Indonesian HEI personnel for a productive implementation of business-university cooperation.
2020 Undip’s Academic Collaboration Program
Universitas Diponegoro (Undip) intends to expand the academic collaboration with international academics and practitioners. This program is set to improve the quality of education and learning process as well as providing an international perspective and different experience for the students. In addition this academic collaboration is aims to improve quality of publication and research network for researchers. The collaboration offered many activities such as visiting professors, visiting lecturers, joint supervision, thesis examiners, joint research, joint publications, and keynote speakers for international conferences. The collaboration form is in this link:
For more information please contact our office: kankat@live.undip.ac.id
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