Kamasetra,  one of UNY Student Activity Units, released an audio drama entitled Salah Kaprah (common mistake that is naturally done by many). The audio drama was released in two parts, the first part was released on December 6, 2020 while the second part was released on December 12, 2020. The audio drama was uploaded to Kamasetra UNY's Youtube and Instagram accounts and available for public to enjoy.

The Digital Literacy Award is one of the new series of Pitch the Future Competition where each team is given free access to Adobe Creative Cloud for 6 months to help each team in completing a mini-challenge consisting of home decarbonization events, tracking and reducing CO2 emissions from vehicles , Decarbonizing Road Freight Transport, and Electric Mobility. The winner of the Digital Literacy Award is the one that is able to deliver the most creative innovations, based on whatever problem management, creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and communication skill.

“Ngrombo 1, Karangmojo, Gunungkidul is a hamlet that has preserved culture in the fields of music and dance, such as reog for children. However, less effort are set for fine arts,”said Nur Azizah, an Elementary School Teacher Education (PGSD) study program student of UNY.

She has set batik training for children as her community service program. Nur Azizah said that she wanted to provide an alternative to making batik in an easier way that was suitable for children.

Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta officially inaugurated Prof. Dr. Harun, M.Pd. and Prof. Dr. Dimyati, M.Si. as the 167th and 168th UNY professor on December 12, 2020. Prof. Dr. Harun, M.Pd. was acknowledged as a professor in the field of Early Childhood Education at the Faculty of Education, while Prof. Dr. Dimyati, M.Si. inaugurated as a professor in the field of Sports Psychology at the Faculty of Sport Science, UNY.

Covid-19 does not stop the 2020 Energy Saving Car Contest (KMHE). This competition was continued to be held at Universitas Indonesia on 26-30 November 2020 online. In this competition, the Garuda UNY Team won two titles, namely 1st place in the Internal Combustion Engine and Transmission Criteria and 3rd Winner Overall Criteria.

UNY Postgraduate Students Association have implemented community service programs through the Sahabat Desa (SADESA) program. This program was carried out online on 19 November 2020 with the theme "Strong Literacy, Great Village: Building a Sustainable Community Reading Culture".

UNY officially inaugurated Prof. Dr. Dadan Rosana, M.Si, as the Professor from the Science Education Study Program, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the UNY Auditorium (21/11). He delivered a scientific oration entitled Integrated STEAM Learning Gamelan Music Ethnoscience and AOGS in HOTS Development Towards SDGs in Education. Thus, the total number of professors that UNY has as many as 166 person.