UNY has won trust in organizing many selection processes for village apparatus. UNY's involvement in this process is clear evidence of the quality of UNY's selection tests and, at the same time, is a part of UNY's participation in developing the quality of human resources in the village.

“I appreciate lecturers who have concern and provide time for students in busyness. There are values for which we are grateful for the roles of students. I once said to students that becoming a successful person is through the accumulation of various learnings. The accumulation of student learning processes is a provision to face a challenging life. Moreover, the Student organization supervisors have a maturing role for students mindset," said the Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences UNY, Prof.

The Faculty of Sports Science, UNY, implemented a collaboration with KONI Magelang Regency by conducting Physical Tests for 157 athletes from Magelang. The Physical Test for Athletes from Magelang was held at Gemilang Stadium.

UNY students made a wallet with a security system that will inform the owner when the wallet is more than 10 meters apart from its owner. Uniquely, the wallet is made of banana midrib fiber, given a Javanese letter pattern. They are Asni Muslimah (Clothing Engineering Education), Annisa Nurfatimah Febrianti (Accounting Education), Annisa Alimah Ufairoh (Physical Education), Latifah Nur Khasanah (Chemical Education), and Atiqotul Maula Al Farihah (Sociological Education). According to Asni Muslimah, they made the smart wallet because many people still use conventional wallets.

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.