BANDUNG, unpas.ac.id – Universitas Pasundan signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Universitas Muhammadiyah Kudus (UMKU) regarding the implementation of University Tri Dharma on Wednesday, 23 March 2022.
The signing was carried out by Unpas Vice Rector I, Prof. Dr. H. Jaja Suteja, M.Si and UMKU Rector, Rusnoto, SKM., M.Kes.
UMKU also signed the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with few institutions and units in Unpas, such as Research Institution (Lembaga Penelitian, Lemlit), Community Service Institution (Lembaga Pengabdian Masyarakat, LPM), Journal and Publication Unit, as well as Centre for Business Innovation and Incubator (Pusat Inovasi dan Inkubator Bisnis, PIIB).
“MoU aims to synergize the owned resource potential to improve the quality of the implementation of University Tri Dharma,” said Prof. Jaja.
The scope of the agreement with Lemlit includes joint-research, research reviewer, implementation of scientific forums such as seminars, international conferences, forum group discussion, workshops and many more.
“It will also be added with research result publication, both books and journal article. An exchanged student will be one of the important things for each institution,” he added.
In terms of managing journals along with Journal and Publication Unit, this collaboration will later involve partner university’s academic civitas in carrying out journal editorial board according to the fields of science that are included in the scope of the journal.
Unpas and UMKU actively offer article review assignments to lecturers and researchers.
“Unpas Journal and Publication Unit provides priority for article-to-be-submitted from the partner university to be published if its theme is in line with the scope of journal and the entire editorial process, review, revision, similarity check and layout are also worked hand-in-hand to maintain the quality of journal itself,” he explained.
Both parties will disseminate and facilitate the meeting of journal organizer and editor-in-chief to be able to identify and adjust the journal scope between partners. While the scope of collaboration with PIIB includes mapping of business for recipients (Keluarga Penerima Manfaat), strengthening its capacity, and incubation for KPM business mentoring, building KPM social awareness and its business sustainability strategies, as well as developing networks and partnership.
“And so is with LPM: there will be a collaboration in community service program,” he said.
Rector of UMKU wish that the MoU and MoA signing with Unpas would be a great beginning to carry out the collaboration in implementing University Tri Dharma.
“This is the first collaboration taken in Bandung and hopefully it could be the role model for the next collaboration,” he concluded. (Reta)*
