The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Rectors´ Conference (HRK), the Gadjah Mada University, the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück and the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE), in cooperation with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) were jointly organising part III of the International Deans’ Course (IDC). This intensive training course was part of the DIES programme (Dialogue on Innovative Higher Education Strategies) which has been jointly coordinated by DAAD and HRK since 2001.

The key objective of the course was to bring together a group of about 30 deans, vice-deans, and heads of departments – many of them alumni of DAAD and Humboldt Foundation – from Universities in South East Asia and to prepare them for the challenges of holding a dean’s position in a changing higher education landscape.

GEN stands for Gadjah Mada University – Indonesia and Ehime University – Japan Network that is U to U collaboration based on a mutual cooperation, as a forum for academics and institutions to share new knowledge and research results on some particular subject or global issues. This year, the 3rd GEN International Seminar was held on August 2010 in Bali, Indonesia. The event is organized by Gadjah Mada University, Ehime University, RISPESCIA (Indonesian Supply Chain Research and Development) and incorporation with some universities, both from Indonesia as well as Japan. The theme of 3rd GEN International Seminar was “Sustainable Bio-resources for Global Welfare”, it provides a forum for representatives from the public, researchers, scientists, professionals and policy makers to join. Furthermore, related topics in the seminar were (a) Forest Carbon Budgeting for REDD, (b) Zeolite Chemistry and Its Industrial Application, (c) Plant Factory, (d) Biodiversity and Natural History Museum, (e) Functional Food, (f) Molecular Genetics of Tropical Rain Forest, (g) Hydrological Issues under Global Warming, and (h) Supply Chain in Practices. The author has presented his research paper titled “Application of Web-based Monitoring System for Plant Growing by Using Machine Vision” that prepared together with Mr. Atris Suyantohadi, Mr. Dody Kastono and Mr. Andri Prima. Special thanks to Faculty of Agricultural Technology UGM for supporting us to participate in the seminar.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck (FHOs), the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) in cooperation with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) are jointly organising the International Deans’ Course. This intensive training course is part of the DIES programme (Dialogue on Innovative Higher Education Strategies) which has been jointly coordinated by DAAD and HRK.

The key objective of the course is to bring together a group of about 30 deans, vice-deans, and heads of departments and to prepare them for the challenges of holding a dean’s position in a changing higher education landscape.

Issues such as faculty management, higher education governance, financial management, change management, quality assurance and leadership will be key parts of this course. A soft skills workshop and an exchange with German university leaders about higher education reforms will be included. Part I of this course was held in Osnabrueck and Berlin on June 2010.

The 10-th International Agricultural Engineering Conference was held in Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok THAILAND from 7 – 10 December, 2009. The International Conference was organized by Asian Association for Agricultural Engineering (AAAE). The IAEC aimed to provide a forum for discussion and information transfer of current researches, achievements and practical application in all fields of agricultural engineering. The theme of this conference is “Role of Agricultural Engineering in Advent of Changing Global Landscape”. The related topics were arranged as agricultural engineering education, agricultural waste management, agro-industry and agri-business management, electronics in agriculture, energy in agriculture, ergonomics/human factors engineering, post harvest technology, food engineering and biotechnology, power and machinery, soil and water engineering, irrigation and drainage engineering, structures and environment, protected cultivation, terramechanics, new materials and other emerging technologies.
The author has presented his research paper titled “Design of Control System for Silk Worm’s Growth Chamber to Improve the Quality of Raw-Silk” that prepared together with Mr. Atris Suyantohadi, Mr. Hari Purwanto and Mr. Radi. Special thanks to Universitas Gadjah Mada for supporting us to participate in this conference.