Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta continues to add to its cooperation network at the national and global levels. The Department of Fine Arts Education, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, on 13/01/2022, held an online Preliminary Meeting with the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (Yuntech). Yuntech has five colleges, the College of Engineering, College of Management, College of Design, College of Humanities and Applied Sciences, and College of Future. The Department of Fine Arts Education at UNY will collaborate with the Yuntech Visual Communication Design Department.

UNY won as the 1st Rank of  Management of Higher Education Cooperation Data for Public Service Agency, the second rank of  Management of Cooperation and Facilitation of Higher Education Cooperation Report for Public Service Agency, and first expectation rating of  Integrated Service Unit for Higher Education Public Service Agency in the 2021 Diktiristek Award which was held offline and online. The award was received by the Rector of UNY, Prof. Sumaryanto, in Jakarta, Thursday (13/1).

The trend of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia has decreased. Nevertheless, the government strives to suppress this pandemic through various policies. Digitally, through the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo), the government has used data on the movement of Mobile Subscriber Integrated Services Digital Network Number/MSISDN mobile phones from the Base Transceiver Station (BTS) to detect crowds of residents. Through this data, Kominfo can provide warnings via short messages in SMS blasts when there is a crowd of residents.

Sport tourism is still not much developed in Indonesia. However, several sport tourism activities in Indonesia include the Sport Marathon, Jakarta Marathon, and the International Tour de Banyuwangi Ijen (ItdBI) bicycle race in Banyuwangi Regency, East Java.  This matter has set the Koskma Research Unit of the Faculty of Sports Science UNY to initiate sports tourism in Gunung Gajah Village, Bayat, Klaten through the Holistic Program for Village Development and Empowerment (PHP2D).

UNY is committed to supporting the development of green technology. One of the results was the UNY Inobike bike. To ensure Inobike reliability in actual use, on January 7, 2021, the Faculty of Engineering UNY, held a mass trial which 100 participants attended. This activity is carried out on a limited basis while still referring to the Covid-19 prevention protocol. "We will use Inobike to support a green campus in order to reduce carbon gas emissions so that air quality on campus is improved more," said UNY Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Alumni, Prof. Dr.

Civic education has a strategic role in forming good, intelligent, democratic, and responsible citizens. Good citizens have characters following the values ​​of Pancasila as the philosophy of the Indonesian. The noble values ​​contained in Pancasila need to be instilled from an early age so that later when they grow up, they become good citizens by upholding the noble values ​​contained in Pancasila. The strategic role of civic education in forming good, intelligent, democratic, and responsible citizens needs to be developed in line with the rapid changes in the 21st-century era.

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is commonly found in most tropical and subtropical regions. DHF is caused by the dengue virus, which enters the human bloodstream through the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Aedes aegypti's life cycle starts from the egg, larva, pupa, and adult mosquito stages. The egg, larva, and pupa stages of mosquitoes are in the water, while as adults, mosquitoes actively fly to find food from human blood, animal blood, or plant extracts.

UNY supports students to participate in various empowerment programs that impact society. One of these supports is provided for UNY students who participate in the "Young Warrior Program" managed by the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology and the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The program attracted 5,140 students from various universities who were deployed to the community to learn about social problems up close and work to solve poverty problems in 514 districts/cities across Indonesia.

On Tuesday (4/1/2022), the Rector of the Universitas Islam Malang(UNISMA), Prof. Dr. H. Maskuri, M.Sc., accompanied by the Vice-Rectors as well as the Deans and Head of the International Affairs Office, visited Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (UNY). The Rector of UNY, Prof.Dr. Sumaryanto, M.Kes together with the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Vice-Rector for General Affairs and Finance, and the Deans and several other officials, welcomed UNISMA as prospective partners.

Household waste is one of the most crucial problems nowadays. In big cities, waste is a significant problem that is still difficult to solve. Based on the type of waste itself, it is divided into two parts: organic waste, which can be decomposed with the help of micro-organisms, and inorganic waste, which cannot be decomposed naturally. The problem of waste in urban areas is an issue that is still considered very important to study about its solution. We need technology to help the community manage waste, especially plastic waste.