UNY’s Faculty of Sport Sciences is always open to potential cooperation and collaboration with various sport institution. This is set by the interest to improve sport performance and potential especially for Yogyakarta region.  Faculty of Sport Sciences will also support to share human resource, facilities and infrastructure as part of UNY commitment with Indonesian National Sport Committee(KONI). This message was stated by the Dean of Faculty of Sport Sciences, Prof. Dr. Sumaryanto, M.Kes in his welcoming speech with KONI of Yogyakarta Region on Wednesday(6/11/2019) at GPLA Building.

UNY students participated in ASEAN International Conference: Climate Smart and Disaster Resilience (CSDR) 2019 in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines.. There are two teams from UNY who participated in this event. The first team has  Maya Eka Septiana  and Muh. Alfin Hanafi from Geography Education who wrote paper about climate and disaster education.  The second team has Fitrianto Hakim (Electrical Engineering Education) and Maya Eka Septiana who made paper about science, infrastructure, design, and assessment.

The Student Association of the Automotive Engineering Education Department, UNY maintain the support in bridging the passion for modification creation through”Autodays Modification Contest 2019". The event was held on 2 November 2019 in UNY Rectorate yard.  It is the 6th season for the auto contest held by UNY.

Primary Education Study Program of UNY Graduate School invited Prof. Mei-Ying Chen from National Chiayi University, Taiwan. She delivered a lecture about “Pre-Service Teacher Education in Taiwan”. In this lecture, UNY students learn about 3 strategies of teacher education in Taiwan to develop professional teacher by connecting rules on teacher education, the using of platform for adaptive learning and teaching practice program.

Minister of Education and Culture, Nadiem Makarim interested to hear further  from Indonesia Education Experts how to improve education in Indonesia together. “The Minister of Education and Culture believes that education is the key to transformation in Indonesia. Therefore, the Minister of Education and Culture assigned me about how to develop the teaching profession, starting from the initial entry to PPG,” Iwan Syahril, the executive staff of Minister of Education and Culture, said his purpose for the visit in UNY on Friday (8/11/2019).

UNY students from 4 different faculties, united into one team and successfully won the Bronze medal at the International Invention & Innovative Competition (INIIC Series 2 in 2019) on Saturday, November 2, 2019 at the Palace of the Horse Selangor, Malaysia.

Fumiya Kikuchi as the representative of Domremy Co.Ltd visited UNY’s Faculty of Engineering to meet with UNY students who will participated in the internship program (01/11/2019). Fumiya was warmly welcomed by the Dean, Vice Dean of Academic and Cooperation Affairs, Head of Culinary  Education Study Program, Head of international Affairs and Cooperation Unit and lecturers of culinary education study program.

Biology Education Department of UNY welcome students of SD Muhammadiyah Sapen, Yogyakarta (1/11/2019). A group of 188 students and several teachers were accepted by the Management of Biology Education Department.

UNY improves further cooperation programs with various international partners. One of the programs is international teaching program for student. For years, UNY and SEAMEO (The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization) has collaborated through SEA-TEACHER Project. For SEA-TEACHER Project Batch 8 2019 Program, UNY has facilitated 2 students from Philippines to conduct teaching practice program at SD Budi Mulia Dua Pandeansari and SMP Negeri 5 Depok.

Vocational High School (SMK) has the priority on developing students skill on competence needed on the work place. Ironically, based on statistics on 2017 open unemployment in Indonesia showed that vocational high school graduates are the biggest contributor for unemployment in Indonesia. Based on this problem, Fitri Nur Mahmudah decided to do dissertation research entitled “Management Model of Vocational High School Cooperation with the Industry” for her doctoral degree at Graduate School UNY.