The key to success being an entrepreneur is to be courageous.  To be successful, it is important for any entrepreneur to dare facing the risk, dare to lose, dare to gain profit and dare to succeed. “If you do not have the courage, you won’t be a successful entrepeneur,” Ibnu Kurniawan Hidayat, S.Pt said on general lecture held in UNY’ Faculty of Social Sciences on Friday (11/10/2019). This general lecture was attended by students of Public Administration Study Program UNY.

Muhammad Dery Prakoso (Chemistry study program) and Akhmad Fauzi Sugiharto(Office Management Education Study Program) earn memorable achievement on national competition of Business Plan Management Economic Event 2019 at Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha, Bali on Sunday(29/9/2019). They earn the third place and also favorite winner on the event with the theme “The next Young Entrepeneur”.

The World Indonesianist Congress 2019 is a forum that offers an opportunity for Indonesianist to share ideas and thought about Indonesia. To build Indonesia’s future, it is essential to take further effort on human capital development as highlighted by President Joko Widodo. Such statement are made by Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Abdurrahman M.

UNY student team successfully earn silver medal at The 2019 Inventors’ Hall of Fame, International Competition of Ideas, Inventions & Innovations (I-Fame) 2019 in Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Kedah, Malaysia. The team consist of Rusita (Chemistry), Intania Putri (Chemistry), Nuzulia (English Education), Watik Novianingsih (Social Sciences Education), and Lilis Aryanti (Office Management). Participants of I-Fame 2019 came from various countries from Indonesia, Malaysia, Bulgary, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Thailand, Bangladesh, and China.

"Sport Science is needed to develop high-performance athletes, especially physical, technical, tactic and psychological. But unfortunately, there are still many trainers in our country who do not want to apply sport science because they consider that science and technology make their work harder, "said Prof. Dr. Hari Setijono M.Pd from UNESA gave his academics speech in Graduate School UNY.

The Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta organized a Public Lecture for Public Administration students with the theme “Challenges of South East Asian Countries to Achieve Sustainability Development”. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Zubir Ibrahim from the School of Government, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) was invited to give a lecture at the hall room of IsDB building of Faculty of Social Sciences.

Fossil energy sources is running low. It will greatly affect our need for transportation, industry, electricity and many more. This has risen the need to innovate more on any potential renewable energy sources. One of the options that we have is biogas. Utilization of biogas energy sources has begun to be developed at the PandanMulyo Agriculture and Rural Training Center in NgentakPoncosariSrandakan, Bantul. The production capacity is quite limited.

Indonesia located among 3 major plates and in the path of Mediterranean Fault and Pacific Fault which make it prone to earthquake. An earthquake can cause other disasters such as the liquefaction that hit Central Sulawesi in 2018. For Yogyakarta, such potential risk is also found in the Opak Fault area that stretches from Parangtritis to Prambanan.

Andy DwikiIranda and NovitaNurbaiti are both from UNY Accounting Education Study program. They successfully won Second Place in the National Scientific Writing Contest in a series of Economic Fairs at UniversitasJember(UNEJ).

Andy and Novita presented a paper entitled "Li-Funding: Innovation Platform for Crowdfunding-Based MSME Financing Integrated Factoring System for Optimizing Risk Mitigation".

Recently, there have been many new challenges in social life with increasingly ideas that have the potential to destroy the world community. The ideas that then emerge in the form of exclusive values, religious radicalism, strong patriotism, and more social goals are centered on a community that ignores this heterogeneous and diverse world. Individual values, the emergence of intolerance, and are not exempt from the values of other communities as a result of ignoring the heterogeneity of the community, will disrupt the balance of people's lives.