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VACANCY at UNO REDD+

The United Nations Office for REDD+ Coordination in Indonesia (UNORCID) is currently looking for highly qualified and motivated postgraduate students and recent graduates for its internship program. UNORCID interns have the opportunity of learning in-depth about the establishment of the Reductions of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) mechanism in Indonesia. REDD+ is at the heart of the global climate change debate and provides a great opportunity for achieving meaningful emissions reduction and sustainable development at the same time.

UNORCID serves as the UN's primary point of contact for supporting the Indonesian government in establishing a REDD+ mechanism, coordinating between UN Agencies and connecting REDD+ Indonesia to global climate change policy.

UNORCID interns can choose between different internship cycles (all between 3 and 6 months) and focus area, including but not limited to Environmental Economics, Biodiversity, Policy & strategy, Monitoring and Evaluation, Communications and Forest Management.

For more details and downloading the full application package, interested students can visit UNORCID's website: http://www.unorcid.org/index.php/about-unorcid/internship-program

Additionally, our Twitter account and Facebook page feature regular updates about Indonesia's National REDD+ Programme, REDD+ progress worldwide as well as sustainable development topics and questions related to the transition towards a green economy.

https://www.facebook.com/unorcidjakarta

Twitter: @unorcid

The Second Kinder-Uni at University of Padjadjaran (UNPAD) – from November 3^rd to December 15^th 2012

After the success of the first Kinder-Uni in December 2011, the second Kinder-Uni will be held this year at Padjadjaran University in Bandung as an initiative of the DAAD alumni. In the months of November and December the alumni will be offering interesting lecture programmes for children between 10 and 12.

The elementary school students can collect their first experiences on how things are at a university and discuss scientific questions they have, for instance; “How can water produce electricity?” or “Why are there fairytales?”. These are a few examples of the themes being discussed this year. For an overview of the entire Kinder-Uni schedule, visit: this.

To satisfy the thirst of knowledge of these children, German universities have held these so called Kinder-Unis for the past 10 years. These programme series, which are designed for children between 6 and 12, are carried out by professors at their universities. The intention is to draw children closer to science and intrigue their fascination towards it.

The Kinder-Uni programme this year is held within the scope of the JERIN programme.

Johann Gottfried Herder Initiative for Emeriti and Retired German University Lecturers

The initiative is aimed at emeriti or retired German professors and university lecturers from all fields who are interested in a teaching residency at a university abroad and already have an invitation from the host university. In exceptional cases retired managers from business and administration, who are interested in a long-term (at least one semester) teaching experience at a guest university and who are willing to lend their experience to the improvement of university education and the development of a cooperation with foreign universities are also eligible.

For winter semester 2012/ 2013, 32 emeritus professors were selected under this program for teaching residency in 24 countries including Indonesia.

For more information, please click www.daad.de/jgh

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EHEF 2012 back in Jakarta

As in previous years, on 3^rd & 4^th November 2012, the European Higher Education Fair, "EHEF" took place in Jakarta. 14 countries were represented by 97 institutions with an equal amount of booths. Among the 8500 EHEF-visitors throughout the whole weekend, the DAAD booth seemed to be one of the main attractions with about 1000 interested people. Pupils, students and even a lot of parents came to inform themselves about "Studying in Germany". This became very obvious during the presentation which DAAD held about studying in Germany and the most important facts about Germany. Just like the DAAD booth, the presentation room was crowded with interested people, so that at first it was a challenge to answer every question, but the DAAD staff gave their best. In the end, almost every visitor left the booth content and with the right information brochure.

The DAAD-team was glad to find out through the evaluation of questionnaires given to the visitors that the interest to come to Germany, whether is it to study, to do research, to work or even for an internship, is still very high..

Second Round IGSP Scholarships

On 18^th of October, the selection-interviews for the IGSP-applicants took place in the building of the Indonesian Ministry of Education (DIKTI).

The Indonesian German Scholarship program – short IGSP – is part of the Debt Swap programme between the German and the Indonesian government. This programme is aimed to improve the quality of higher education in Indonesia, namely in the field of human resources. It is administered by DIKTI in cooperation with the DAAD.

It is a full scholarship program for PhD or doctoral studies in Germany and is aimed at Master graduates, who are permanent lecturers at an Indonesian state or private university and will return to being a lecturer after having completed their PhD in Germany.

During the selection interviews in October, 14 candidates were interviewed by 8 Indonesian and German professors from different fields. Also the applicants have completely different academic backgrounds, ranging from Telecommunication technology, Veterinary Medicine to Finance and Education Studies.

The selected candidates will attend a DAAD sponsored German language course at the Goethe Institute and then leave for Germany at the end of July. They will start their studies in October 2013, for the winter term 2013.

Interested in an IGSP scholarship, klik for more information.

September features from DAAD Surabaya

In September 2012 DAAD Surabaya organized several events:
A presentation on “Research in Germany” was given by Dr. Maria Goretti, dean of the faculty of biotechnology, University Surabaya, 6th September. Dr. Goretti is an alumna of DAAD. She did her doctoral studies in Germany at FÜ Berlin. The event was attended by over 100 people.
The DAAD also took part in a Job fair held by University of Surabaya, attended by 500 people interested not only in job opportunities but also in information about scholarships and studying in Germany.
16th September 2012 DAAD was present at an open house event at Wisma Jerman, Surabaya. DAAD’s booth provided interested visitors with scholarship and study information concerning Germany. The event was much appreciated not just for the information but also for the culinary highlights, typical German Frikadellen (meat balls), Kartoffelsalat (potato salad) and German cakes.

The 4th Indonesian Summer School 2012 on Computational Logic and Its Application

“The 4th Indonesian Summer School 2012 on Computational Logic and Its Application” was held September 13th – 14th, 2012 in the Computer Science Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, of Udayana University, Bali. This summer school is the continuation of the DAAD International Summer School program, which is sponsored by DAAD and TU Dresden, Germany. The lecturers were from University Koblenz-Landau, TU Dresden, FH Deggendorf , Germany, and University of Indonesia-Jakarta.

The 42 participants hold Bachelor and Master degrees from various universities in and outside Indonesia. They work as lecturers, researchers and employees in the private sectors. DAAD’s scholarship programs for Indonesians were presented 13th September, followed by a Q&A session and consultation.

In an evaluation session on the last day, 14th September, the participants and the lecturers discussed the summer school program. The participants hope for the continuation of summer school programs in the future.

"TOWARDS GLOBAL EDUCATION"

On 6th September 2012 DAAD held an alumni get-together in Yogyakarta. In this event Professor Judith Schlehe and Professor Jürgen Rüland from Freiburg University, faculty of anthropology respectively political science, together with their Indonesian counterparts Professor G.R. Lono Lastoro Simatupang from University of Gajah Mada, presented their joint research project, an excellent example of bilateral, reciprocal science collaboration: Mixed tridem teams of Indonesian and German undergraduate students carry out interdisciplinary research in both Germany and Indonesia, trying to explore and understand “the other”. The project has been running for 10 years already and some of the results of this research can be found in the university publication “Menuju Pendidikan Global” or “Towards Global Education”

Around 80 people were present during this DAAD event; among them were DAAD & German alumni, long-term DAAD lecturers, several German and Indonesian professors as well as Indonesian and German students.

Erfolgreiches Tandemprojekt zwischen Universität Freiburg und Universitas Gadjah Mada im Bereich Ethnologie

Der DAAD unterstützt Teams von indonesischen und deutschen Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftlern, die in Indonesien zum Thema "Perceptions of Globalization" forschen.

Eine Teilnehmerin berichtet ...

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