As an effort to produce internationally competent graduates, the Faculty of Animal Husbandry Universitas Brawijaya (Fapet UB) held Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) with the Faculty of Agriculture, Shinshu University (SU) Nagano, Japan. COIL is a student exchange program that is packaged in the form of a summer course.
The implementation will start on August 11, 2021 until September 10, 2021, and will be attended by 39 participants. It consists of 28 students of the Undergraduate Study Program of Fapet UB and 11 students of the Undergraduate Program of the Faculty of Agriculture SU.
There are two rounds in the program timeline with the topic of food culture and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDGs are goals set by the United Nations as the world’s development agenda for the safety of humans and the earth. These include eradicating poverty and hunger, improving health and education, building more sustainable cities, tackling climate change, and protecting forests and oceans.
On the topic of food culture, participants will take turns presenting about local food, which includes history, culture, recipes, presentation, marketing, and its diversity in the domestic market.
In addition to SDGs Discussion, participants from the two faculties will be combined into several groups. Then each group presented the progress, achievements and importance of three of the 17 goals in their respective countries (Japan and Indonesia).
The Head of International Relations Office (IRO) of Fapet UB, Prof. V.M. Ani Nurgiartiningsih explained some of the outcomes of the program, including (1) introducing and providing insight into cross-country cultures so that students become individuals who are more open to accepting differences. (2) Participants have awareness to achieve 17 SDGs in their respective countries. (3) Strengthening relations between institutions to be able to implement further cooperation programs. (4) International standard institutional recognition.
The assessment mechanism is obtained from activity reports compiled by participants and collected at the end of the program. Then, the participants will be given an activity certificate.
“This program will be recognized by two SKS (free form courses) for participants from Fapet UB, so that COIL can support the implementation of the Independent Learning Independent Campus Program” explained Ani (dta/Humas UB/ Trans. Iir)
