IPB Hosted the Workshop in the Australia-Indonesia Centre
The Australia-Indonesia Centre (AIC), a central agency of research cooperation between Indonesia and Australia, held the workshop titled “AIC Joint Research Management Workshop ” (13-14/8), in IPB International Convention Center (IICC), Bogor. AIC had several research clusters with a wide range of fields as a focus of research. The clusters covered the fields of energy, food and agriculture, health and medicine, and infrastructure.
Vice Rector for Research and Cooperation of Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Prof.Dr. Anas Miftah Fauzi, explained, “This activity aims to equalize the perception among the heads of Institute for Research and Community Service (LPPM) in seven universities in Indonesia and the research managers at five universities in Australia in order to implement the cooperation more smoothly particularly in the systems of financing, organizing, and reporting. Then how to implement the plan that has been drawn up, how to focus the existing budget in order to obtain the concrete results from each research cluster”.
According to him, with the cooperation like this, it was the cooperation with IPB to develop its research and innovation. “Because IPB as the coordinator of the research cluster of food and agriculture, our expectation of this opportunity can be one vehicle to lift the reputation of IPB, to encourage its researchers involved, and to interact in a more proactive with the researchers from the campuses in Australia or Indonesia itself,” said Prof. Anas who also served as the Coordinator of AIC Indonesian Consortium.
The seven campuses in Indonesia joined in AIC among others were IPB, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Universitas Indonesia, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Universitas Airlangga, Universitas Gadjah Mada and Universitas Hasanuddin. While the Australian education institutions belonging among others were Australian National University, Monash University, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney and a research institute of CSIRO.(AS)
