The Collaboration of NUNI and British Council Indonesia: Info Session of Scholarships for Women in STEM
The National University Network in Indonesia had a great collaboration with the British Council Indonesia. Held the Scholarship for Women in STEM: Info Session. The British Council has launched a scholarship program in partnership with 26 UK universities with the aim of benefiting women from America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Egypt, Turkey and Ukraine. This scholarship program aims to increase opportunities in STEM for girls and women. This scholarship is for a master’s degree or initial academic scholarship in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics program at a top UK university.
This event held on February 14th,2022 via Zoom. The target participants for this info session are undergraduate program students, lecturers and alumni. There are six NUNI members who are the organizers of this event, BINUS University, Andalas University, Islamic University of Indonesia, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Petra Christian University and Satya Wacana Christian University.
There were 5 speakers for this event, Mohammed Alam (Senior Development Officer, Brunel University London), Nicholas Pitt (International Relations Team, Regional Manager Africa & Southeast Asia, Liverpool John Moores University), June Chai (Regional Director for Southeast Asia, Teesside University), Alfin Fahdi Firdaus (International Officer (Indonesia), University of Glasgow) and also Agatha Mia Puspitasari (Winner of the 1st WIS, currently studying at MSc Biomedical Science, Liverpool John Moores University and also a Research Assistant at the Eijkman Institute). The moderator for this session was Neny Isharyanti, Ph.D (Head of Office of Cooperation & International Relations, Satya Wacana Christian University).
This event was also attended by some of the leaders of NUNI members, including Prof. Dr. Ir. Djwantoro Hardjito, M.Eng (Rector of Petra Christian University), Dr. Yohanes Eko Adi Prasetyanto, S.Si (Vice Rector for Research and Collaborations, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia), Ir. Wiryono Raharjo, M.Arch., Ph.D. (Vice Rector for Networking & Entrepreneurship) and Vonny Indah Mutiara, SP., MEM., Ph.D. (Kapala UPT Layanan Internasional).
The opening remarks of this event from Diah Wihardini, Ph.D as BINUS Global Director and also The Head of NUNI. She said that NUNI is delighted to maintain the partnership with the British Council Indonesia, who have always supported NUNI’s activities in developing Student Mobility, Faculty and Staff Mobility, and Collaborative Research and Innovation. Today’s session is an example of NUNI and the British Council collaboration that strengthens NUNI’s mission. It is expected that this session, which open opportunities for student mobility, will result in academic and professional development of the audience gathered here, from students and faculties of NUNI members as well as other institutions’.
And the continuing with the opening remarks from Country Director of British Council Indonesia, Hugh Moffatt. He said ‘Thank you for NUNI, we are proud to do the partnership with NUNI. Not least because it’s an opportunity to really highlight one of our most exciting scholarship schemes. The focus in this case in science is around climate change healthcare management automation and water engineering”.
In this session, Mr Muhaimin Syamsuddin also giving an overview about Scholarships for Women in STEM. He mentioned that fewer than 30 percent of researchers worldwide are women and only 30 percent of female students select STEM-related in higher education. Experts such as Kamau Bobb are supporting this scholarship to increase opportunities in STEM for girls and women.
The subject area of this scholarships are Climate Change, Healthcare Management, Automation and Water Engineering. This scholarships has two schemes, Master’s SEA cohorts (Hosting UK Universities: Brunel University, Liverpool John Moores University and Teeside University) and Early Academic Fellowship (Hosting UK Universities: University of Glasgow and Univesity of York).
Agatha Mia Puspitasari who was the 1st WIS Wineer and currently studying at MSc Biomedical Science at Liverpool John Moores University gave some tips of how to write the personal statement so we could get accepted into the programme. Agatha shared that the personal statement should start with tell a story about your journey (start from undergraduate life like you have to aligned together between the problem that you want to solve with the courses in department that you want to choose). You have to make your story with a good structure in your personal statement. No need to write a really long words, two or three pages are enough. The second tips is be proud of yourself and then you have to ‘sell yourself’. If you have any positive points just tell it. And the last one is just be confident and you have to pour all of your passion in that personal statement.
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