The achievements of the Renaissance-Yogyakarta can only be implemented by creative community groups across professions and institutions who are also supported by superior education whose graduates will strengthen the creative entity in order to build a dignified advanced civilization. UNY as an important implementer of Kampus Merdeka Program is expected to graduate alumni of prospective educators, not just teachers, who are ready to develop education and learning relevant to the needs of digitalization of education without being deprived of their cultural roots.

Merapi eruption in 2010 has caused considerable damage. More than 400.000 people were evacuated and 2.300 houses were damaged. This experience has set the interest of Riza Atika, Anung Endra Raditya and Rohsan Nur Marjianto, students of Mechatronics Engineering Education Study Program UNY, to create an early warning system for cold lava floods based on internet of things. The system has integrated loudspeakers for places of worship so that they can convey hazard information to potentially affected communities as soon as possible to minimize casualties.

UNY students won the Gold Medal in the International Competition on Human Necessities at the BIIS (Beirut International Innovation Show) 2021 which was held on April 8 to 10, 2021 by the National Association for Science & Research (NASR) with the International Federation of Inventor's Association (IFIA) in Beirut, Lebanon online. The completion winners were announced at MENA Unboxing YouTube channel on April 10, 2021.

The Faculty of Engineering, Yogyakarta State University (FT UNY) continues to expand and focus their collaboration with the Faculty of Vocational Technical Education Universiti Tun Husein Onn Malaysia (FPTV UTHM). This was resulted in virtual meeting as a follow-up and evaluation of cooperation programs between FT UNY and FPTV UTHM which was stated in the Memorandum of Agreement between the two parties.

There are three types of manufacturing processes based on the manufacturing process, namely, manual where everything is done by hand with the help of simple tools such as saws, chisels, files and the quality is very dependent on the skills of the operator, then conventional machines where the manufacturing process has been assisted by production machines such as lathes.

Artificial Intelligent (AI) will help a machine to follow human intelligence from simple to very complex task. By using AI, it is expected to have a lower error rate compared to human performance when programmed correctly because AI has extraordinary precision, accuracy and speed. This was explained by Suprapto, Ph.D., in the webinar of the Master of Electronics and Informatics Engineering Education (PTEI) Faculty of Engineering, UNY (09/04/2021).

Machine Learning is the branch discipline of Artificial Intelligence (AI) many of us are still foreign with this term. Then, what exactly is machine learning and how does it apply? To understand more about machine learning, the Master Program of Electrical Engineering Education study program, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Negeri Yoyakarta  (UNY) held a webinar with the theme "Machine Learning and Its Applications in Electrical Engineering'' on Friday (09/04/2021) at 09.00 WIB through the Zoom Meeting application and Youtube streaming. In this webinar, Prof. Ir. Moh.

The Journal and Educational Science Research Team, Faculty of Education, Yogyakarta State University (UNY), held a Webinar activity with the title "Preparation Manuscript of International Journal" with Prof. Dr. Huseyin Uzunboylu, the editor of well-known and reputable international journals "Cyriot Journal of Educational Sciences" Monday, April 5th 2021, through the Virtual Zoom Meeting.

The Virtual Exhibition "International Education Fair 2021" in Kazakhstan was held on March 25th - April 3rd, 2021. This largest Central Asia annual education exhibition was funded by the Bolashaq Development Fund and attended by over 300 universities from 50 countries around the world. UNY's participation in the IEF 2021 exhibition was facilitated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Indonesian Embassy in Nur Sultan along with 13 other Indonesian universities.

Indonesia is one of the top 20 fruit-producing countries in the world, one of the fruit is guava. Kendal Region, Sukorejo is one of the biggest guava producers in Indonesia with a total area of almost 2000 hectares consisting of guava plants. To maintain the quality of guava, farmers try their best to produce a high quality guava for their consumers. To select high quality guava, the first step the farmers do is sorting, continued by packing and distributing the guava. The purpose of sorting is to select the ripped guavas which indicate the quality and have a high selling price.