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  • CommTECH Camp Insight 2018

    ITS as one of the best research universities in Indonesia would like to invite students, academic, and non-academic staffs to participate in the Community and Technological Camp (CommTECH) Camp Insight 2018 which will take place in Surabaya, Indonesia, on 24 January – 6 February 2018. Designed as a platform to discuss and solve local problems, we modified this program into a 14-day program integrating new concepts and innovations. The participants will be challenged to critically solve real problems using a project based model. The results of this program will not only be presented at the exhibition during the closing but will also be discussed and considered for implementation by the Surabaya City government.

     

    CommTECH program is a short course program designed to facilitate and share better understanding of complex issues related with the intertwining of societal and technological problems, especially in Indonesia. It is also a platform to open up an opportunity to exchange ideas and to develop a mutual vision for the future of our community. Under the theme, “Solving Local Problems with Global Knowledge”, this program provides courses and discussions on particular topics, visitation and discussion with government and non-government agencies, society engagement, Indonesian Language courses, traditional music and dance lessons, visits to wonderful tourist destinations, and certainly enjoying delicious Indonesian foods.

    The good news is ITS provides full and partial scholarships for participants from different institutions and countries to join this program.

    Detailed information and online registration can be viewed and downloaded from our website:

    http://international.its.ac.id/commtech-insight-2018/

    and found in the following document:

    Brochure of CommTECH Camp Insight 2018

     

    For CommTECH Camp Insight 2018 we offer 4 courses

    Sub Course A: Sociopreneurship in Action

    The world is continuously facing problems from poverty, health, and climate change which cannot be solved by the government alone.  Increasingly, business is seen as one of the initiatives that can drive social changes on a continuous basis. This short program will not only introduce participants to the concept of social enterprise but will also provide experience on how to build a social enterprise. The program will cover important aspects of creating a new venture by generating ideas, brainstorming and prototyping, validating and testing the idea, and developing the right business model

    Sub Course B: Sustainable Development in Developing Countries

    In this decade, Sustainable Development (SD) has become a growing concern all over the world. Not only become a topic in many conferences, symposiums, and discussions, SD has also become the core of many programs and development projects. In CommTECH Camp Insight 2018, the multiple facets of SD will be discussed and the implementations of SD in developing countries like Indonesia, including sustainable agriculture, sustainable energy, sustainable transportation, sustainable building, sustainable tourism, sustainable life style, sustainable packaging, and sustainable product, will be explored and analysed. This program is designed to suit bachelor, master, even doctoral students with or without specific knowledge in SD.

    Sub Course C: Managing Sustainable Coastal Development

    The coastal area is a transitional area between land and ocean that has a physical boundary. As the largest archipelago country in the world, Indonesia’s coastal areas are very strategic with their comparative and competitive advantages that could be the prime mover of the national development. To optimize the use of marine and coastal resources, policy intervention through spatial planning, government handling, and cooperation between stakeholders including public and private sectors are required. In CommTECH Camp Insight 2018, this sub course will take participants to discuss and simulate the management of coastal planning this archipelago country. The highlights in this subject consist of Coastal Planning Policies, Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), Coastal Risk Management, and Coastal Tourism. This program is designed to suit bachelor, master, even doctoral students with or without specific knowledge in coastal development and planning.

    Sub Course D: Exploring Indonesian Art & Culture

    Indonesia is a country that consisted of thousands of islands. Those islands are home of many kinds of ethnics and cultural beliefs. Approximately, there are 1340 ethnics spread across the provinces and each of them has different folkways, habit, even arts and traditions. Because of this diversity, exploring the ethnics & cultures of Indonesia will provide exciting and fascinating experience as participants will give more understanding about Indonesia. This sub course will take the participants to explore the folkways and cultures through different approach such as understanding Indonesia people through ethno-photography course while taking pictures of beautiful scenery of Indonesia. Not only participants will observe and explore, they will also engage to several activity, such as Traditional Food Packaging and Traditional Toys Workshop. Overall, this program will show you the utilization of the activity above into the society.

    Only active lecturers, non-academic staffs & active bachelor, master & doctoral students from any background are eligible for this program.

    The fees of this program is USD 1,600. The fees will cover accommodation, local transportation, tuition fee, workshop materials, seminar kits, scheduled meals, Trip to Bromo Mountain, Rafting, airport pick up & drop off services, and vouchers, The participants must be responsible with their roundtrip flight ticket, visa & travel insurance.

    We offer full scholarship, 50% scholarship (pay only USD 800) & partial scholarship (pay only USD 1,000) for limited participants.  Please register early to secure your participation in this awesome program.

    The registration is opened from 10 July – 29 December 2017.

    Please proceed in the following way to register:

    1. Fill in the attached registration form (or download the registration form from the provided link above ):
      CommTECH Camp Insight 2018 Registration Form
    2. Scan it, and send it to commtech@its.ac.id with the documents below :
      1. Scanned Passport
      2. One recommendation letter from your university
      3. Scanned students/staffs/lecturers I.D or statement letter that you are staff or lecturers from your university

    Indonesian students & the participants of previous CommTECH are not allowed to apply to CommTECH Camp Insight 2018

    For further inquiries, please contact Mr. Wahyu or Mr. Pitra at commtech@its.ac.id / internationaloffice.its@gmail.com

     

    Brief stories of past CommTECH programs can be viewed from these links

    ​CommTECH Camp Highlight 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku1mSbMJUIQ
    CommTECH Camp Insight 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wz3oGAUJ00
    CommTECH Camp Highlight 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDck4UD6m-M&t=4s
    CommTECH Camp Insight 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh-MRNBrnIA
    CommTECH Camp Highlight 2015  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8W8zQS2jMY
    CommTECH Camp Insight 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvUKCYMoB6M
    CommTECH Camp Highlight 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faj9ggY0yvs
    CommTECH Camp Highlight 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec95BmbGB5g

  • 1-21 July 2018 // PSU 2018 Thai Cultural Camp

    1-21 July 2018 // PSU 2018 Thai Cultural Camp

    The PSU Thai Cultural Camp is a three-week summer program in July 2018 which aims to bringing together students from prominent universities around the world to enrich them with an in-depth knowledge of Thailand’s culture, cuisine, traditional medicine, sufficiency economy and way of life. During the program, participants will experience the amazing „Land of Smiles“ via the comprehensive program including language, cultural classes as well as enjoyable field trips to famous tourist attractions in the south of Thailand, such as Phuket and Satun.

    The PSU Thai Cultural Camp will be hold at Prince of Songklar University Hat Yai Campus, Songkhla Province, Thailand from 1st to 21st July 2018.

    PSU 2018 TCC – Brochure

    Venue

    Hat Yai Campus is the main PSU campus, located in the busy, commercial city of Hat Yai in Songkhla province, the hub of trade and economy of the major provinces in the Lower South. Hat Yai Campus, with its attractive landscape, provides a serene setting ideal for education and learning, and is the center of various disciplines, including Health Science, Science and Technology, Engineering, Management Sciences, Liberal Arts, Economics, Law, Natural Resources, Environment Management, and Agro-Industry.

    The city of Hat Yai is about 60 km from the Malaysian border, one hour flying from Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, and 30 km from the beautiful tropical long beaches of Songkhla. It is a modern city, with a vibrant mix of Thai, Chinese, and Malay influences, making Hat Yai a thrill to visit with many cultural and modern entertainment attractions.

    Lectures

    The various lectures hold at the PSU Thai Cultural Camp include Thai language, Thai Dancing, Thai Boxing, Traditional Medicine, Thai Cooking, Sufficiency Economy, and Thai Way of Life and its Environment.

    Experience, Explore, Enjoy

    Participants will be able to experience a broad variety of activities introduced and guided by knowledgeable instructors. For example, during the Thai Cooking session participants will cook and taste several Thai dishes, like the authentic and traditional Thai style “Tom Yam Kung.” Also, during the Thai Traditional Medicine class, Thai Herbs and Spa are introduced and participants will learn how to do themselves herbal medicines. They will take this knowledge back home, to apply it in their own country.

    Field Trips

    Participants have the opportunity to travel to and get first-hand information on historical places and renowned tourist attractions in Southern Thailand, such as:

    • Songkhla: Samila Beach, Folklore museum, old city, etc.
    • Phuket: Patong Beach, Promthep Cape, Wat Chalong, (an optional trip to the white sand islands & snorkeling, at participants’ charge, is also available).
    • Satun: white-water rafting, beautiful waterfalls and impressive caves.
    • Field trips to local villages.

    The full program can be downloaded here: PSU 2018 TCC – Tentative Calendar

    Accommodation

    Normally, students will be accommodated on campus. However, in case that the number of available rooms is not enough, they will stay in comfortable accommodations off campus. Laundry service, restaurants, and mini-marts are available nearby. Campus-wide Wi-Fi internet is also available. The campus houses many students’ cafeteria, a student activities building, and a modern Sport Complex with an Olympic-size swimming pool.

    Important

    • The minimum age of participants is 18.
    • Participant’s passport must be available for minimum six (6) months on the date of entering Thailand.
    • Participants from PSU partner universities benefit of discounts only if they are nominated by their university and the related department at their university sends to PSU the specific Application Form.
    • Individual applications are possible, but no discount will apply.

    Program Cost

    Early bird rate: US$ 950 (payed before the end of March 2017)
    Final deadline payment: US$ 1,000 (payed on April 1st and after)

    • includes accommodation, local transportation to field trips and excursions as mentioned in the program, as well as several meals;
    • airport pick-up (arrival) and drop-off (departure) at Hat Yai International Airport will be provided
    • participants are responsible for their own travel expenses from home city to Hat Yai, international health & accident insurance, some meals, and other personal expenses;
    • bank transfer fees must be covered by the participant.

    Please find here information on PSU 2018 TCC – Discounted Rates

    Payment

    Please make bank transfer payment to Siam Commercial Bank, PSU Hat Yai Branch, 15 Karnjanavanich Road, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110 Thailand, Account Name: PSU International Affairs, Account No. 565-455889-5, SWIFT Code: SICOTHBK

    Application

    Please be informed that the number of participants is limited and they will be accepted on the basis of “first-come, first-served.” For your information, even if the deadline for nomination is the end of February 2018, we may close the applications once the seats are fully booked.

    Please send the completed Application Form, copy of passport & bank transfer slip to the PSU International Affairs Office:

    • by email: psu-international@psu.ac.th
    • by fax: + 66 74 446825

    PSU 2018 TCC – Application Form universities

    Application Form 2018 TCC_individual application

    Contact

    International Affairs Office
    Prince of Songkla University
    15 Karnjanavanich Road, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110 Thailand
    Phone: + 66 74 446824 or + 66 74 282253-5
    Email: psu-international@psu.ac.th
    www.interaffairs.psu.ac.th
    Facebook: PSU Thai Cultural Camp

  • 6-8 Dec. 2017 // ASEA UNINET Indonesian Chapter Workshop on Sustainable Development // Depok, Indonesia

    6-8 Dec. 2017 // ASEA UNINET Indonesian Chapter Workshop on Sustainable Development // Depok, Indonesia

    We’re glad to draw your attention on the ASEA UNINET Indonesian Chapter Workshop on Sustainable Development which will be held from 6th to 8th December 2017 at the Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia.

    The two-day workshop will contain panel presentations, providing ASEA-UNINET coordinators and researchers with a platform to exchange knowledge, discuss current issues and potential plans of action with regards to Sustainable Development in the world and particularly European and Southeast Asian development.

    To support those purposes, UI officially invites coordinators from ASEA UNINET member universities to attend and give a presentation about their research ortheir view regarding a selected topic related to Sustainable Development during the dedicated workshop-sessions “Panel on Sustainable Development: Lesson Learned”. Furthermore, there will be a session titled „The Role of Embassy in Supporting ASEA UNINET“ by Indonesian Embassy for Austria which aims to get the point of view and insight from the embassy about its role in ASEA UNINET. After the workshop, there will be an optional excursion to museums and landmarks in Jakarta.

    Please kindly find further program, accommodation, transportation & venue details here: Info Sheet

    Program Schedule

    On behalf of Prof. Melda Kamil Ariadno, Ph.D., the Head of International Office UI and ASEA-UNINET National Coordinator for Indonesia, we kindly ask you to register for the Indonesian Chapter Workshop via email to Ms. Ismi Rahmawati:

    Registration Form

    Please also kindly address the title and the approach of your research/presentation on the registration form for panel grouping.

    If you have any further inquiry about the program, please do not hesitate to contact Ms. Ismi Rahmawati.

    Contact details:

    Ms. Ismi Rahmawati
    International Association Officer
    Universitas Indonesia
    Central Administration Building 1st Floor
    Depok Campus, Depok 16424, INDONESIA
    Phone: (62-21) 78880139
    Email: ismi.rahmawati@ui.ac.id

  • 16-18 Febr. 2018 // 2nd International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies – Call for Papers

    16-18 Febr. 2018 // 2nd International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies – Call for Papers

    Call for Papers
    2nd International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies

    16-18 February 2018
    Mandalay, Myanmar

    Greetings from University of Mandalay! „Now we are accepting over 200 papers from web link. Application death line is end of November 2017“ 

    Host Organizations

    University of Mandalay, co-hosted by Chiang Mai University

    The rapid changes that have taken place in Myanmar during the last decade have brought about new hope, opportunities and challenges. Since the 2010 elections, Myanmar has opened its frontiers and broadened its international engagement in diplomacy, trade and education. New political, social, and cultural spaces permit new forms of social interaction and renegotiation. New civil society organizations are flourishing. The economy, newly liberalized by the government in 2011, has ushered in a host of challenges for Myanmar. While economic development has generated employment and income, it has also impacted the environment and is generating multiple transformations of the country.

    Agricultural transformation is changing rural landscapes and farmer livelihoods through cash crops, usage of chemicals and fertilizers, and through new forms of production relations. Yet, underdeveloped infrastructure is inhibiting adaptation to climate change, to food crises, to natural disasters, and to the spread of infectious disease. Rapid urbanization, inequality of income distribution, and pressure on land and resources—caused by agro-industrial land concessions and resource extraction—has exerted severe pressure. Cultural changes are clear as Myanmar society modernizes and connects to the global economy.

    This conference is interdisciplinary, with a focus on the pressing issues facing the country. The 2nd ICBMS conference committee invites panel proposals as well as individual abstracts from interested academics, researchers, graduate students, professionals as well as practitioners with an interest in Burma/Myanmar. Panel proposals and individual abstracts can address the overall themes of transformations in any of the following topic areas:

    1. Development & Transitions in Myanmar
    2. Agro-based Economy
    3. Bio-diversity/Environment and Climate Change
    4. Rural Transformation/Rural Development/Poverty Alleviation
    5. Cultural Heritage and Tourism
    6. Media, Popular Culture and Communication
    7. Governance, Social Security and Peace Process
    8. Health Care
    9. Population Change, Migration & Displacement
    10. Urbanization/Rural-urban Relations
    11. Food Security and Food Practice
    12. Education and Development
    13. Literature, Language and Society
    14. History and Social Memory
    15. Ethnicity and Gender Relations
    16. Religion and Belief Systems
    17. Resource Management
    Abstract Submission Details

    Individual abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted in English. Individual abstracts should not exceed 300 words, and panel proposal descriptions not more than 500 words. Panel descriptions should contain abstracts of 300 words for each presenter. A brief biography about 150-250 words for the author should also be included. Suggestions for round table discussion will also be considered.

    Abstracts and proposals can be submitted via the forms linked below:
    Individual abstract submission form
    Panel proposal submission form

    Deadline for submissions is 30th November 2017.

    Submission forms can also be requested from the secretariat and will be sent via e-mail.

    Paper submission

    The paper in English should be 3,000 – 4,000 words. For papers in Burmese, we expect around 10 pages with Win Innwa font, sized 16, 1.5 spacing.

    Submission can be sent to via e-mail.

    Important Dates
    • Submission of abstracts: 15th November 2017
    • Notification of the result of abstract selection: 30th November 2017
    • End of registration: 10th December 2017
    • Submission of papers: 15th January 2018

    For further information please visit:

    http://www.mu.edu.mm/news/2nd-international-conference-on-burma-myanmar-studies-cfp/

     

  • 23-24 Nov. 2017 // Workshop “Industry 4.0 – Current Trends and Strategies”; Hanoi, Vietnam

    We are proud to anounce that on November 23rd and 24th, 2017 Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) will host a special workshop on the topic of “Industry 4.0 – Current Trends and Strategies” in Hanoi, Vietnam. This event is organized in co-operation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and ASEA-UNINET, Austria.

    The workshops aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the area of Industry 4.0, highlighting various aspects of Industry 4.0 including safety, security, dependability, networking as well as engineering processes – with special focus on the crucial linkage between information technology and manufacturing.

    The workshop aims at a full and detailed discussion of research issues interlinking manufacturing and information technology as integrative processes that cover amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in this field of application.

    The workshop emphasizes the interplay between foundations and practical issues of Industry 4.0 for companies, governments, universities and research institutions. It is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Industry 4.0 and the definition of a future road map.

    Important Dates:

    Industry 4.0 Workshop: November 23rd + 24th, 2017

    For further information on the program, keynotes, registration and venue, please visit the Workshop Website or contact us via email:

    Contact:

    Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vietnam:
    Prof. Dr. Nguyen Huu Thanh
    Dean of Department of Communication Engineering
    School of Electronics and Telecommunications
    Hanoi University of Science and Technology
    C9-412, 1 Dai Co Viet Str.
    Hanoi – Vietnam
    Mail: nguyenhuuthanh@set.hust.edu.vn

    DAAD Hanoi:
    From 01 Sept 2017: Stefan Hase-Bergen (Mr)
    Head of DAAD Regional Office Hanoi for Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar
    Trung Tam Viet-Duc
    Dai hoc Bach Khoa Ha Noi
    Dai Co Viet / Tran Dai Nghia
    Hanoi / Vietnam
    Mail: hase-bergen@daad.de

    ASEA-UNINET, Austria:
    Niina Novak, BSc MSc,
    ASEA-UNINET Head Office
    Vienna University of Technology
    Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems
    Favoritenstraße 9-11, A-1040 Vienna, Austria,
    Mail: asea-uninet@ifs.tuwien.ac.at

  • Neurocritical Care Teaching Course 2018

    Neurocritical Care Teaching Course 2018 is designed for health professionals working in the fields of neurology, critical care, internal medicine, neuroscience and emergency medicine. The program focuses on the latest evidence-based management of all aspects of neurocritical care. This course will take place from 28th of February to 3rd of March at the Universiti Putra Malaysia and is supported by ASEA-UNINET and the Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI). Professors  teaching at this course are Bettina Psaufler (Associate Professor of Neurology and Critical Care Medicine at MUI), Raimund Helbok (Associate Professor of Neurology and Critical Care Medicine at MUI), Erich Schmuthard (Professor of Neurology and Critical Care MedicineMUI), and Runny Beer (Associate Professor of Neurology and Critical Care Medicine at MUI). The course program includes a combination of lectures and case presentations and offers participants a unique opportunity to witness faculty practitioners deliberate how to incorporate the most recent evidence into their clinical practices.

    Following video gives a first impression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qxua7v3BY0

    For further information please see the homepage: https://neurocritical.wordpress.com/

  • ASEA-UNINET Students Week

    ASEA-UNINET Students Week

    on Sustainable Development

    Program Description

    The ASEA-UNINET STUDENTS WEEK is an academic mobility program, designed to faciliate graduate students from ASEA-UNINET Universities‘ member to participate on a short program with a duration of two weeks and earned three credits (with 44 contact hours) upon completion. As an active member of ASEA-UNINET, the Universitas Indonesia (UI) has initiated to host the ASEA-UNINET STUDENTS WEEK from December 3rd to December 16th 2017 at the Universitas Indonesia.

    This program is specifically designed so that the participants not only benefit academically through in class lectures (with multi disciplinary field of study approach), but also get the opportunity to having an internship or field study and given the exposure of Indonesia culture through the cultural engagement included in the program.

    „Sustainable Development“, chosen as the theme of this year program, aims to encourage participants to have broaden intellectual and awareness on the importance of sustianability which has been a global issue and challenge faced by modern society.

    This program offering one special course about Sustainabile Development with a multidisciplinary approach. Prominent lecturer from Health, Science & Technology and Social and Humanities field of study will teach the classes.

    Participants

    Universitas Indonesia invites every ASEA-UNINET member University to send two students as the representatives from each University to join this program.

    To have a balance in terms of gender, please nominate one female and one male student.

    Eligibility

    • Students from graduate program in any major can apply
    • Have completed at least one year of full-time study at the time of application at your home institution
    • Be recommended by your university, proven with a nomination letter from home institution
    • Be able to actively communicate in English, proven with minimum score of or its equivalent: TOEFL ITP: 510, TOEFL CBT: 180, TOEFL IBT: 64, TOEFL PAPER: 510, IELTS 5.0, TOEIC: 600

    Program Content

    1. In-class lectures: The in-class lectures will be delivered by prominent scholars from various field; Engineering, Social and Political Sciences, Law, Humanities, Public Health, Economic & Business, and Mathematics & Sciences.
    2. Internship/Field Study: Short internship/Field study will take place at offices or institutions that are related to topic of the program. This internship/Field study is provided to enable participants in obtaining first hand experience about contemporary issues on related topic from various sectors.
    3. FGD and Presentaiton: FGD and presentation session will be one of assessment tools to review participants‘ learning outcome. The assigned lecturer will review each participant for both individual and group performance.
    4. Language and Cultural Sessions: Language and cultural exposures are provided for participants to experience cultural diversities and similarities between the participant’s origin country and host country’s culture. Participants would get opportunity to learn language and traditional culture of host country, including cultural activities such as cultural trip to explore traditional cuisine, performance or music.

    Tentative Program Schedule

    Program Fee

    Programm fee is 380 USD*/person which includes airport transfer on departure and arrival, meals during the program (exlude dinner), program materials, certificate of participation and cultural activities during the program.

    Scholarship

    Universitas Indonesia is pleased to provide scholarships to those students nominatd by ASEA-UNINET member universities, including:

    1. free accomodation and program fee waiver for the 1st nominated student
    2. free accomodation for the 2nd nominated student

    How to apply

    1. Fill in the Registration Form Please send the completed registration form to your International Office or any related official office. UI will not accept direct application for this program.
    2. Submit Pre-Program Essay: Participants of the program are required to submit two pages essay. The essay should be about general information or understanding about Indonesia and their expectation towards the programme. It should be submitted one week before their arrival at the latest.

    Submission deadline: 31 th October 2017

    Payment deadline: 6 th November 2017

    Post Program Essay

    For Post-Program, students are required to submit three pages essay at the lates three weeks after the program about their opinition on how is the sustainable development in Indonesia, about the program and the benefit of participating in this program.

    How to pay

    Bank transfers to this account:

    VIRTUAL ACCOUNT NAME: UI CREATES
    VIRTUAL ACCOUNT NUMBER: 8881-927-103006-253
    BANK NAME: BNI KANTOR CABANG UI DEPOK
    SWIFT CODE: BNINIDJAUID

    Then send the transfer receipt to ismi.rahmawati@ui.ac.id and wait for the payment confirmation.

    For registration/information

    Ms. Ismi
    International Office UI
    Central Administration Building 1st Floor
    email: ismi.rahmawati@ui.ac.id
    phone/fax: +62 21 7888 0139

  • Indonesian Summer School on Music Information Retrieval

    14 – 18 August 2017 – Universitas Indonesia, Depok (Jakarta, Indonesia) –
    http://ir.cs.ui.ac.id/mir-summer-school/index.php

    The Indonesian Summer School was the first summer school in Music Information Retrieval in Indonesia. The summer school covered basic knowledge in Information Retrieval, music content analysis, content based music indexing, music classification, automatic feature learning, user studies, and music recommendation. The summer school program also included some Lab sessions.
    The summer school was intended for 4th year undergraduate students, master and PhD students, researchers in institutions and industry. It was intended to give the participants some backgrounds to work on music information retrieval.
    The Summer School was organized by Universitas Indonesia, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien, Austria) and Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria) and was supported by the ASEA-UNINET.

    Among the lecturers from the respective organizing universities four came from Austria and two from the Universitas Indonesia:
    – Bruce Ferwerda: Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Informatics department of the School of Engineering at Jönköping University, Sweden and currently also a researcher in the Department of Computational Perception at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. He received his master’s degree in Human-Technology Interaction from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and received his PhD degree in Technical Sciences from the Johannes Kepler University in Austria.
    – Markus Schedl: Associate Professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz / Department of Computational Perception. He graduated in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Johannes Kepler University Linz.
    – Mirna Adriani: Currently she is the head of the Information Retrieval Lab in the Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia. Her PhD in Computer Science she received from the Glasgow University in Scotland UK.
    – Peter Knees: Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Informatics, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems of the Vienna University of Technology. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology and a Ph.D. degree from the Johannes Kepler University Linz.
    – Thomas Lidy: Currently he is the Head of Machine Learning at Musimap, a startup providing a large-scale human+AI based music recommender and search engine. He has a long-standing experience in audio analysis and Music Information Retrieval, which he has gathered in more than 12 years of working in this domain as a researcher at the Vienna University of Technology in an international context. In 2008, Thomas had founded Spectralmind, an innovative music technology company that created both professional music search products and mobile apps for visual music discovery. His master degree in Informatics he received from the Vienna University of Technology.
    – Yohanes Stefanus: Lektor Kepala (Associate Professor) at the Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia. His research expertise is in Computer-Aided Geometric Design, Wavelet-Transform-based Techniques, and Computational Logic. He also works on Machine Learning and Symbolic Computation. He holds a M.Math. degree and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

     

    Professors and researchers from ASEA UNINET have been invited to participate, together with their students, in this summer school via live video lecturing.
    Links for the video streaming via Youtube, 14 – 18 August 2017, have been the following:

    Day 1 – August 14: https://youtu.be/FlXC7ERXGZU
    Day 2 – August 15: https://youtu.be/pItzrAsCM9s
    Day 3 – August 16: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoYzj-JaVrw
    Day 4 – August 18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t414HMiuu0I

    In total there were 50 participants from different Indonesian universities as well as audience which followed the sessions via the live streaming on Youtube from Myanmar, Malaysia and Austria.

     

     

    The program for the summer school was structured in the following way:
    • Monday, 14 August 2017
      09.00 – 10.30     Intro to MIR (Knees)
      10.45 – 12.15     Music content analysis (Knees)
      13.30 – 15.00     Basics in information retrieval and machine learning (Adriani)
      15.30 – 16.00     Introduction to Labs (Knees, Lidy)
    • Tuesday, 15 August 2017
      09.00 – 10.30     Music content similarity, genre/mood classification (Schedl)
      10.45 – 12.15     Hiding and Retrieving Information in Music using Wavelet Transform (Stefanus)
      13.30 – 15.00     Lab: music content similarity, genre/mood classification (Knees, Lidy)
    • Wednesday, 16 August 2017
      09.00 – 10.30     Deep learning / automatic feature learning (Lidy)
      10.45 – 12.15     Lab: deep learning / automatic feature learning (Lidy)
      13.30 – 15.00     Music context-based similarity and indexing
    • Thursday, 17 August 2017
      No classes due to Independence Day
    • Friday, 18 August 2017
      09.00 – 10.30     Lab: music context-based similarity and indexing (Schedl)
      10.45 – 11.30     Designing for users 1 (Ferwerda)
      13.30 – 15.00     Designing for users 2 (Ferwerda)

    The campus of Universitas Indonesia offered a beautiful environment to study and was appreciated by the participants.

     

  • EURAXESS ASEAN Flashnote 21 July 2017

    General information

    EURAXESS ASEAN has been serving researchers in all fields interested in a research career in Europe since 2007. Its web portal makes it easier for researchers, entrepreneurs, and businesses in Europe and ASEAN to interact with each other. The portal contains thousands of job postings as well as funding and fellowship opportunities – especially for scholarship opportunities this can be interesting. Find out more on the homepage (https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/asean) which offers a great breadth of funding schemes, publications, events and other useful information.

    40 years of EU-ASEAN cooperation — 2017 edition

    This statistical publication – commemorating the 40th anniversary of EU-ASEAN Dialogue Relations celebrated in 2017 – offers an insight into a range of socioeconomic issues concerning EU–ASEAN relations. It focuses on statistical data on trade, investment and migration, and also provides an overview of key data regarding the economy, finance, labour market and population. The data, presented in this publication, has been extracted from the Eurostat’s online database, statistics pages of the ASEAN website and a range of international sources. For further information find the link to the database platform here, or download the report directly:
    Report.

    Scholarships and other opportunities

    In the EURAXESS ASEAN Flashnote of 21 July 2017 several scholarship and fellowship opportunities can be found.

    • „Indonesia EU Scholarships Day. Manado. 12 August“, “ Singapore: Latest Higher Education and Research Opportunities. 30 September“,
    • „United Kingdom: Training Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine for Researchers from Low and Middle Income Countries. Preliminary deadline 30 November“,
    • “ United Kingdom: Newton Fund Institutional Links Programme. Thai Researchers Eligible. Deadline 19 September“,
    • „United Kingdom: Newton Fund Researcher Links Travel Grants. Researchers from Indonesia and Philippines Eligible. Deadline 19 September“,
    • „United Kingdom: Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop Grants. Researchers from the Philippines Eligible. Deadline 19 September“,
    • „Italy/Europe. 24 MSCA Post Doc Positions in Nanomedicine, Neuroscience and Robotics. ASEAN Researchers Eligible. Deadline 31 August“,
    • „United Kingdom: Post-doctoral Fellowships at the Science and Technology Facilities Council Laboratories (STFC) in the UK. Deadline: 29 September“,
    • „Switzerland – 15 PhD Positions at EASITrain Innovative Training Network (ITN). ASEANResearchers Eligible. Deadline 02 October, 2017“,
    • „ASEM-DUO Thailand Fellowship Programme. Open to University Graduates and Undergraduates. Deadline 31 August, 2017“

    Pdf with more information here.

  • ASEA-UNINET Sustainability Workshop, 15-16 July 2017

    Amid the growing imperatives for the academic and scientific community to contribute to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, the ASEA-UNINET is organizing a sustainability workshop to be held on 15-16 July 2017 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria.

    As the global community continues to grapple with growing insecurities and uncertainties – billions continuing to live in poverty, rising inequalities, conflicts, and glaring disparities in wealth and opportunity, amid climate change threats – the imperatives for sustainability become increasingly pronounced. Sustainability puts emphasis on managing and promoting socioeconomic development with full consideration of ecological limits. Essentially, it seeks to balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental, creating inclusive societies. The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015, brings forth the challenge of achieving 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 associated targets designed comprehensively to mobilize countries to improve the lives of people everywhere.

    One of the key strategies devised to achieving the Agenda is through a revitalized global partnership that produces concrete policies and actions, mobilize financial resources, and facilitate capacity-building and transfer of technology, particularly toward addressing the needs and priorities in developing countries. Governments, international organizations, business and other non-state actors including the academia are expected to make contributions to strengthen the developing countries’ scientific, technological and governance capacities. However, amid numerous innovations and tools developed for sustainability, the complexity of concepts, dimensions, the inter-sectoral coordination and multi-stakeholder configurations that the framework entails, have exasperated practitioners and policy-makers. In particular, governments tend to disregard the framework amid continuing uncertainties and debates about the science of sustainability (i.e. of climate change) vis-à-vis immediate economic priorities. The academic community and intellectuals, policy experts and scientists are in a locus to offer pragmatic perspectives and courses of action to inform nation-states policy making to uphold the SDGs as a national priority toward a formulation of clear and concrete implementation strategies.

    Against this backdrop, the ASEA-UNINET is organizing a sustainability workshop to be held on 15-16 July 2017, which constitutes as a prelude to the network’s Plenary Meeting on 17-20 July 2017 in Graz, Austria. The workshop aims to bring together sustainability experts and specialists across different scientific fields within the ASEA-UNINET network to conceptualize an integrated sustainability framework, which the network can pursue.

    The three main objectives of the workshop are:

    • To take stock on where we are as a network in terms of contribution to the sustainable development agenda. We will assess how responsive are we to this global challenge to meet the SDGs, identify strengths and gaps in our scope of work.
    • To reflect on how we can position sustainability as a forefront of academic linkages among our members. Most crucially, we will identify pathways for program expansion within the sustainability agenda and deliberate on the trajectory of programs, projects and collaborations. We will explore and deliberate the vision, key themes and agenda to be considered as focus programs for the network.
    • To prepare the content and program for the ASEA-UNINET Plenary Meeting Working Groups on the topic of sustainability.