Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

The educational opportunities in Universitas Gadjah Mada include international postgraduate education and scientific and policy research through their 74 postgraduate courses. The government funds 70% of the programmes, also through scholarships. Research goals are focused on promoting SD in research and education programmes, including outreach researches.

With twenty-eight research programmes currently established, the university started discussions on new research agendas based on experiences from other universities. Outreach efforts are seen through collaborations with AIT and other higher education institutions.

Universitas Gadjah Mada’s efforts also focus on continuing to network and build partnerships with other institutions.

• Post-graduate School for Environmental Science
  • Technology for Sustainable Development
  • Geo-Information for Spatial Planning and Disaster Risk Management
  • Environmental Management
• Post-graduate School for National Resistance
  • Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Post-graduate School for Leadership and Policy Innovation
• Post-graduate School for Disaster Management
• Post-graduate School for Management on Higher Education

Projects

• Development of a Framework for the Local Implementation of the SDGs – Phase II, led by Chulalongkorn University
• Disaster Education for Integrating SFDRR and SDG in Asia, led by the Asian Institute of Technology
• Built Environment Curricula In The Asia-Pacific Region: Responding To Climate Change, led by RMIT University
• Business, Climate Change And Biodiversity, led by the Asian Institute of Technology
• Engineering And Built Environment Curriculum, led by RMIT University
• Innovative Pedagogies In Poverty Reduction, led by the Asian Institute of Technology
• Sustainable Business And Social Responsibility Curriculum, led by the Asian Institute of Technology
• Health Food Traditions Of Asia, led by Universitas Gadjah Mada

Programmes

• 2019 ProSPER.Net Young Researchers’ School on ‘Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation’
• 2017 Youth Leadership Program on Sustainable Development in Conjunction with the 2nd Indonesian Youth Conference on Sustainable Development (12-21 September 2017, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
• International ESD Forum under the theme ‘The Role of University and Community to Strengthen School Education in Promoting SDGs Implementation’ (held by RCE Yogyakarta from 12-14 November, 2019, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Universitas Gadjah Mada has a range of capacity building programmes that aim to make those at UGM aware of the Sustainable Development Goals as the national development targets, by providing innovations and solutions for SDGs, creating current and future SDGs implementers, demonstrating how to support, adopt and implement SDGs, and developing partnership and leadership between sectors to guide in responding to SDGs.

For example, one of the current capacity building programmes in UGM is the ICT-enabled In-Service Training of Teachers to Address Education for Sustainability (ICTeEfS). This program intends to find out and map the use of information and communication technology by educators (teachers and lecturers), in order to improve the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the curriculum and learning process in primary and secondary schools and university as well as to develop teachers who are able to understand ESD and integrate ESD concepts and aspects in the curriculum and learning process.

• Information Communication Technology-enabled in Education for Sustainability (ICTeEfS) sponsored by Erasmus+
• Capacity Building program in Faculty of Economics UGM for its students such as Regular Training, Analytical Method Training, Private Sector Training, and Public Sector Training
• Capacity Building on Supporting Evidence based in Policymaking Process in Faculty of Medicine UGM