On May 5, 2025, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) participated in a significant collaboration meeting with the Kulon Progo Government, held at the Menoreh Meeting Room in Kulon Progo Government Complex. The meeting was attended by the Regent of Kulon Progo, the Assistant Secretary of the Region, the Regent’s Expert Staff, the Economic and Natural Resources Division, the Agriculture and Food Office, and the Bapperida team. Also present at the event were Dr. Wiryanta, S.T., M.T., Vice Dean of Research and Community Service of Sekolah Vokasi UGM, Eko Prasetyo, S.Hut., M.Sc., Ph.D., Head of Research and Community Service Unit of Sekolah Vokasi UGM, and Dr. Nurulia Hidayah, S.Pt., M.P. as the FRC coordinator. This gathering aimed to discuss potential partnerships that could enhance agricultural productivity and food production in the region.

Yogyakarta (6/2) – Ibaraki University visited SV UGM on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at SV 233. The guests were Mr. Keito Motegi, representative of Ibaraki University KUI staff who was accompanied by Ni Nyoman Indriyani from the UGM Faculty of Agriculture UGM, Listya Puspita Pandanwangi from ASMI Santa Maria, and the staffs of KUI SV UGM.

The visit was part of the agenda of Staff Exchange program from Ibaraki University Office of International Affairs (OIA). One of the activities was visiting OIA exchange information at faculties in UGM.

During the event, SV UGM representative shared about Sekolah Vokasi UGM, then shared about the possibility of collaborating with Ibaraki University such as Student Exchange, Internship or Community Service, which had previously been carried out by the Faculty of Agriculture UGM, especially in the field of Agriculture and Agroindustry. The program then continued with question and answer session and ended by giving a token. Mr. Keito Motegi expressed his delight at his visit to SV UGM.

Ibaraki University is a university that was founded in 1949 in Bunkyo, Japan. The university has five faculties, they are College of Humanities, College of Education, College of Science, College of Engineering, and College of Agriculture.

Yogyakarta (31/1) Student of D3 Civil Engineering Study Program, Divvia Nurray, Receive the Best Award in the Student Conference on Optimizing K3 (Occupational Safety and Health) with his work “Realizing ZERO ACCIDENT Construction Development with the Kind of HR Quality?”. This activity was held in order to welcome the Modern Methods of Construction ITB Civil Engineering Expo (ICEE) 2019 and was held from 24th until 27th January 2019 at the Institut Teknologi Bandung, and there were three events at once, namely conferences, competitions and national seminars.

Divvia was motivated to take part in this event because she felt that the issues were contested is accordance with her fields, and there are many large-scale developments in Indonesia where infrastructure development still continues. On the other hand, there was also a lot of news about construction accidents to workers who were victims so she was interested in reviewing how construction workers, HR management systems related to the construction of occupational safety and health projects. In addition, the purpose of this conference was to provide insight the background system of implementation and supervision of K3 in Indonesian construction, knowing the challenges faced in managing HR in the field of K3.

On there,she did many things such as the first day of the student conference, which was divided into three stages, namely the presentation of K3 material, then focus group discussion (fgd) with a focus on the topics chosen by each delegation, and the large fgd where each representative presented their topic. The conference was closed with a conference delegation signature session above the conference results document. The second day each delegation got a free ticket to the engineering expo, which was included in the ICEE program in the West Hall of ITB, followed by the third day, City Tour and the fourth day each delegation got a free ticket to attend the ICEE seminar at West Hall of ITB. The delegation participants also varied from UI, UGM, UNAIR, UB, UNS, UNUD, etc.

Divvia admitted that she had a very valuable experience, from a topic that she adopted. She advised that to get an achievement, stay focused on writing/expressing what will be discussed according to the theme, “Direct to the main problem, not describing the problem or issue in general,” she said.

Sekolah Vokasi (25/1) – English Study Program Sekolah Vokasi (SV) UGM hosted the Public Relations Family (Kapurel) Meeting Goes to Campus. Kapurel always holds regular meetings every month and presents different speakers. The event was attended by inviting guests from lecturers of the English Language Study Program and PR from various business organizations or institutions in Yogyakarta.

As the Head of Kapurel Yogyakarta, Mr. Hairullah Gazali in his remarks said that “This meeting is different because it is our first time to conduct it in campus. Usually, the meeting is held in the hotels. This time we bring the theme ‘Creating Brand Value’, about how Public Relations can work together with marketing in building a brand,” he said.

Then, Ms. Erlin Estiana Yuanti, S.S., M.A., as Head of English Study Program, welcomed and thanked the guests for coming.
“We aim that in the future the curriculum will focus on the application of English in the Business Communication specifically for Public Relations. Hopefully, we can all work together,” she said.

The speaker of Kapurel Goes to Campus at SV UGM is Mr. Agus Putranto, M.Sc., Head of Cooperation and Promotion Office and Lecturer of Communication Studies Program at Universitas Atma Jaya, Yogyakarta. He explained that “Brand is the asset with the greatest value compared to other assets in a company, so that the company must have credibility and be able to build a good image through reputation and have a clear direction of business development.”