Forms Of The Merdeka Campus Ecosystem, Kedaireka Melakukan Sosialisasi Matching Fund 2023 Ke Universitas

Director General of Higher Education, Research, and Technology of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture, Prof. Ir. Nizam, PhD (ist)

JAKARTA - In order to build an innovation ecosystem in the country based on pentahelix collaboration, especially the World Business World Industry (DUDI) with the higher education sector-Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) through Kedaireka in collaboration with KADIN Indonesia and BPP HIPMI in organizing the 2023 Matching Fund (MF) socialization.

The Matching Fund Kedaireka program is a funding program from the Directorate General of Higher Education, Research, and Technology that involves higher education and the World Industrial Business Organization (DUDI) to be jointly involved in responding to challenges in the industrial world and forming the Merdeka Learning ecosystem - Merdeka Campus. This program has a mission to accelerate strategic collaboration in responding to challenges and needs in the industrial realm in obtaining research-based solutions.

"I would like to thank the college and industry personnel for their great enthusiasm for the Matching Fund Kedaireka program two years earlier. In the third year, we are increasingly convinced that the Matching Fund Kedaireka is the best program to realize innovation collaboration between universities and industry," said Director General of Higher Education, Research and Technology of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture, Prof. Ir. Nizam, PhD. in virtual socialization, Monday, January 9.

With the theme of building industrial and campus world partnerships through the Kedaireka matchmaking fund program, socialization was carried out with Plt. Director General of Diktikristek Kemendikbudristek, Prof. Ir. Nizam, PhD.; Chairperson of PMO Kedaireka, Dr. Ing Mahir Bayasut; President Commissioner Ilthabi Rekatama & Head of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Research and Technology Agency, Dr. Ing. Ilham A. Habibie.MBA; and Secretary General of BPP HIPMI Dr. Anggawira, MM. MH.

"I hope that innovation will be even more absent and the problems experienced by the industry will soon advance to the research agenda in universities. Hopefully, the synergy of pentahelix innovation (the spirit of the Merdeka Campus) will really have an impact on the development of the nation's economy and sovereignty," concluded Nizam.