The Meranti Islands Regency Government of Riau Province signed an MoU with Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. The agreement was officially signed by the Regent of Meranti Islands Regency H. Muhammad Adil S.H. and the RRector of UNY Prof. Sumaryanto on February 10, 2022.

The Sports Coaching Education Study Program of UNY and the Sports Science Study Program held a pilot collaboration with ANOKI (Association of Sports Nutritionists and Indonesian Fitness Consultants). The activity was carried out on Friday (14/1/2022) via a zoom meeting.

The UNY Faculty of Engineering continues to forge the technopreneurship mentality of UNY students to support a productive and skilled society. “UNY continues to cultivate the spirit of student independence so that they are keen to turn opportunities into challenges of economic value by integrating them with competencies in the field of technology. All of this is based on the spirit of creativity to continue to innovate.

The Piyungan integrated waste disposal site receives about 300 tons of daily waste every day. Based on the findings of the Environmental Office of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, each household produces around 0.7 to 1 kilogram of waste per day. Cumulatively, every day 100 garbage trucks dump garbage in Piyungan. Without proper management, this can trigger various health problems, damage to marine ecosystems, and air pollution.

UNY Faculty of Engineering students have produced many innovative works. These various works can undoubtedly inspire the development of further innovations. For this reason, in celebration of the 61st anniversary of the Faculty of Engineering UNY, the Engineering Technology Student Activity Unit held a robotics exhibition on February 7, 2022.

Javanese farmers traditionally use memedi sawah or scarecrow to protect their crops, especially rice, from bird attacks. The custom of installing memedi  sawah as part of local ecofriendly tradition  on the rice fields has attracted students of the Social Sciences Education Study Program, Faculty of Social Sciences, UNY, who researched the values ​​ in the memedi sawah festival in Bantul. They are Basid Elmi Izzaqi, Diah Nadiatul Jannah, Rina Suhartanti, Eva Riska Amalia and Marlinda Putri.

Program Pejuang Muda or Young fighter Program is a social laboratory for students to apply their knowledge and knowledge to make a substantial social impact in society. In addition, this program is part of the Merdeka Campus Program under the auspices of the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, and the Ministry of Religion, which every Indonesian student can participate in.

UNY held online talent mapping for Jeddah and Makkah Indonesian School students on Thursday, February 3, 2022. In this activity, the UNY psychology team led by Dr. Rita Eka Izzaty, M.Sc. will assess the students of class XVII Jeddah, totaling 40 students and from Makkah as many as 8 students. Also attending this activity, Sutikno, M.Pd., as the principal of SILN Jeddah and the Acting Principal of SILN Makkah.

Teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic requires teachers to adapt to online learning systems and use effective media. The impact of the online learning system that has been running so far certainly affects the psychological condition of students on learning so that alternative strategies for delivering learning materials are needed that are more interesting and meaningful. This problem has caught the attention of UNY lecturers, namely Dr. Dyah Purwaningsih, M.Sc. (Chemistry Education Study Program), Dr. Pujianto, M.Pd. (Physics Education study program) and Anik Widiastuti M.Pd.

Career skills are essential to face dynamic changes in various work. Career skills consist of curiosity, perseverance, flexibility, optimism, and risk-taking. Therefore, it makes sense to place career skills as an essential aspect that needs to be instilled through learning in vocational education. Furthermore, the physical and mental experience that students get in the form of seeing, feeling, holding, and real-life working experience is a form of Tacit Knowledge that cannot be obtained through ordinary learning.