Diponegoro University won first place in the 2020 World Class Professor (WCP) grant program competition, which was initiated by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia through the Directorate General of Higher Education (DIKTI).

 

World Class Professor (WCP) is a program from the Directorate General of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Culture which invites world-class professors from various well-known universities abroad as visiting professors to be placed in various universities in Indonesia. This program is intended so that lecturers / researchers can interact with well-known and superior professors so that they can improve their academic life, competence, quality and contribution to the development of science and technology and strengthening the National Innovation system in an effort to make optimal use of the diversity and wealth of Indonesia's natural resources for the greatest possible welfare. the Indonesian people as mandated by the constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. The World class professor (WCP) program is divided into two, namely scheme A and scheme B, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, only scheme B is offered by DIKTI and its implementation is online. Of the more than 60 applicants, only 34 applicants passed until the final stage and Undip placed 5 of its lecturers as recipients of the WCP scheme B program in 2020. This is the highest number of several universities in Indonesia participating in the program.

Undip Chancellor Prof. Dr. Yos Johan Utama, SH., M.Hum. express gratitude for the achievements. "These achievements have further solidified the reputation of Undip researchers / lecturers in the international arena to partner with researchers / lecturers from abroad from the best universities in the world," he said. Separately, according to the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Prof. Dr. Ir. Ambariyanto, MSc., Who is also the person in charge of activities representing Diponegoro University stated that this program opens opportunities for cooperation in terms of both academics (visiting lectures), research (joint research) and publications (joint publication) between Undip researchers / lecturers and researchers. foreign professors who have a very good reputation at the global level.

Diponegoro University won first place in the 2020 World Class Professor (WCP) grant program competition, which was initiated by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia through the Directorate General of Higher Education (DIKTI). This achievement was announced by the Directorate of Higher Education on August 10, 2020.

 

In this competition, UNDIP included 5 lecturers who were implementing the World Class Professor (WCP) Scheme B who had successfully passed this competition, namely

 

Prof. Ir. Retno Murwani, M.Sc., M.App.Sc., Ph.D., (FPP / Integrated Lab) with WCP partners Prof. Anthony J.Sinskey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

 

Prof. Dr. Denny Nugroho Sugianto, S.T., M.Sc., (FPIK / Integrated Lab) with WCP partners Prof. Dr. Andrivo Rusidy (National University of Singapore)

 

Ahmad Ni'matullah Al-Baarri, S.Pt., M.P., Ph.D., (FPP) with WCP partners Prof. Shigeru Hayakawa (Kagawa University, Japan)

 

Dr. Muhammad Helmi, S.Si., M.Si. (FPIK / PUI CoREM) with WCP partners Prof. Sucharita Gopal (Boston University, USA)

 

Dr.Sc. Anindya Wirasatriya, S.T., M.Si., M.Sc. (FPIK / Oceanography Dept.) with WCP partner R. Dwi Susanto, PhD, (University of Maryland, USA)

Sumber : undip.ac.id

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