UNAIR NEWS – To expand the network of internationalization activities, Airlangga Global Engagement (AGE) will renew cooperation with the World’s top 100 universities in China.
The discussion on cooperation efforts was carried out through a workshop attended by Yaya Sutarya as Educational and Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia (KBRI) Beijing, People’s Republic of China and Mongolia. The workshop was conducted online via a teleconference zoom meeting on Wednesday, August 4, 2021.
As a representative of the Indonesian Embassy, Yaya is interested in UNAIR’s specialization in the health sector. He thinks that health holds a vital role, and humans are now faced with complex problems.
He emphasized that cooperation in education must be balanced with investment and trade. In line with this, he then continued with four types of cooperation forms in bilateral relations between Indonesia and China.
First, the use of scholarship programs, including the G20 Meeting in Osaka, which has given a quota of 3000 scholarships for undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral degrees for five years (2020-2024). There is also a Vocational Education Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program for 500-800 people.
Second, international research cooperation programs, both bilateral and multilateral, between universities, companies and universities, or universities and the government.
Third, the arts, culture, and language cooperation program consisting of 21 Indonesian cultural centers, Indonesian language study programs at 18 Chinese universities, Centers for Indonesian Studies at 13 points, and Confucius Institute/HANBAN/CIS.
Fourth, there are also digital programs through economics, alternative energy weather engineering satellites, medicine (microcirculation vaccines, hemorheology), electric vehicles, AI and advanced robotics, batteries, electronics.
An implementation strategy emerged from the four cooperation programs, a joint curriculum (Credit Transfer, summer course, double degree), professor visits, joint research, and student exchanges.
In this case, his party is open if UNAIR can send students to China to study. “China is very open, including for Universitas Airlangga. There will also be further training in this collaboration. We also offer 39 universities,” said Yaya. (*)
Author: Viradyah Lulut Santosa
Editor : Binti Q. Masruroh
