Celebrating the special day, Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta, through its UNS Innovation Hub (I-Hub), held a sharing session through an Instagram live stream on Women in Business: Working for Start-up is Tough, but We are Tougher on Monday (7/3/2022).

The sharing session invited Aurelia Salsabila Putri, an alumnus of UNS from the Industrial Engineering Program, Faculty of Engineering (FT). Aurelia has devoted herself to Start-Up and Business management and successfully started an education Start-Up to hold the young generation in their personal and professional journey. Aurelia is expected to inspire the participants as the representation of a successful woman who has broken the gender bias against women in the community.

However, Aurelia shared that gender discrimination still exists and affects women, although luckily, she has no firsthand experience of the event. But she heard stories from her friends that made her feel the existing discrepancies.

“To this day, I still observe gender bias that harms women. Women are still considered to ‘cannot do more. The is also limited means to hone their potential. This is why women find it hard to develop,” Aurelia stated.

Aurelia stated that gender should not matter because no matter the gender, people need mindset, toughness, skills, and mentality in responding to everything.

“Gender is not important. We need to create awareness on free gender discrimination environment,” she concluded. Humas UNS

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The event was opened by the UNS Vice-Rector for Research, and Innovation Affairs, Prof. Dr. Kuncoro Diharjo, S.T., M.T. Prof. Kuncoro said that the Semesta program is beneficial for all academic members. The academic members referred to include students, lecturers, and UNS alumni. “This program benefits final-year UNS students, alumni, industry partners, and lecturers. Let’s welcome the innovation and startup incubation program at UNS in 2022,” said Prof. Kuncoro.

According to Prof. Kuncoro, this Semesta program can also boost UNS Key Performance Indicators (IKU). The IKU assessment point that can be achieved through this program is decent jobs opportunities for UNS graduates (IKU 1), off-campus experience for students (IKU 2), off-campus working opportunity for lecturers (IKU 3), community implementation, or getting international recognition for lecturers’ creation (IKU 5), study programs’ partnership with world-class universities (IKU 6), and collaborative and participatory classes (IKU 7).

The Regional Secretary of Surakarta City, Ir. Ahyani, M.A., was also present during this grand launching ceremony. Ir. Ahyani greatly appreciates this program because Semesta Program is expected to strengthen the relationship between the government and universities. “These recent events aim to build Surakarta, not only for the regional government but also for the people of Surakarta. Related to startup incubation, hopefully, the City of Surakarta and UNS can bring numerous innovations. Surakarta also provides a place for startups in Solo Technopark, which can mobilize the general public to establish a startups business,” he said.

UNS Director of Innovation and Downstreaming, Prof. Dr. Eng Agus Purwanto, S.T., M.T., said that the Semesta program is one of the superior programs hosted by the UNS Directorate of Innovation and Downstreaming. This program is one of the synergy activities designed between universities and the industrial world in divulging research and innovation results.

“We at Universitas Sebelas Maret, for research and innovation affairs, through the Directorate of Innovation and Downstreaming, strive to facilitate the development of research and innovation results, cultural arts, and innovative creations by UNS academic members through funding opportunities and startup incubation programs. Moreover, to increase innovation acceleration, this program is expected to encourage the research results commercialization and accelerate technology-based startups growth,” he added.

Prof. Agus explained that UNS Innovation Hub designed several programs this year. First, Semesta Bright aims to capture tenants specialized in various sectors such as health, food, agriculture, creative industry and tourism, education, information and communication technology, and social humanities from the UNS academic members (lecturers, students, and alumni). Second, the Semesta: New Renewable Energy, in collaboration with Pertamina, captures tenants from the UNS academic members and the general public to develop startups in new renewable energy. The next program, the Innovation Development Program (PPI), is an innovation development scheme for lecturers or UNS academic support staff. Finally, the last program is designed for research and artistic creation and design, with a program objective to accommodate the art and design researchers, creators, or reviewers’ creativity within UNS. Registration to these four programs will open from March 10, 2022, and will be closed on March 16, 2022.

The 2022 Semesta Program this time carries the theme entitled “Inherit the Spirit of Innovation by Collaborating Wisdom and Technology Advancement.” A number of practitioners and funding partners attended the ceremony and delivered explanations at the grand launching. Some of them include Achmad Adhitya (Executive Director of Solo Technopark), Mia Krisna Anggraini (VP New Venture PT Pertamina), Kiwi Aliwarga (Founder UMG Idealab), Christopher Rexi (Venture Partner Init 8), and Gufron Syarif (Owner Haus Indonesia). Humas UNS

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Civil Arch was developed based on Rafi’s interest to start a consultancy business for architecture and civil engineering services. The idea was prepared on April 2021 and was submitted to UNS Innovation Hub Semesta by Rafi’s group that consisted of students from a diverse educational backgrounds such as engineering, developer, and business management. The idea aims to answer the issue regarding the lack of community knowledge concerning architectural and construction designs. “Mostly will ask their acquaintances, while others are searching in the internet or social media. While the architects have difficulty to find clients,” Rafi explained to uns.ac.id team on Saturday (29/1/2022).

The most challenging part of Civil Arch development is connecting the idea, problem solution, and creative developments for the generated idea. The marketplace form of their startup also poses another challenge for the team to retain their customers. Thus, idea validation becomes vital in the whole process. Therefore, the team did their best to obtain information from their target consumers and users.

The hard works of its founders secured significant funding for Civil Arch. The proposal secured IDR 20,000,000 funding from UNS Innovation Hub and IDR 100,000,000 funding from Achmad Zaky Foundation. Securing funding from the latter foundation was not an easy task. The team was required to have a pitching session with the Director of Achmad Zaky Foundation and solve problems and provide the best solutions before being announced as one of 30 funded startups out of 3,000 applicants.

However, their struggle did not stop there. After being selected as best 30, the team went through a mentoring session with Patamar Capital, venture capital for mass-market firms in the Southeast Asia region, between August-December 2021. During the mentoring, the team was provided with IDR 5,000,000 funds to develop a minimum viable product that brought them to win the final funding from Achmad Zaky Foundation.

Civil Arch, in a way, is a manifestation of Rafi’s way of life to benefit the community. “Hopefully, our presence (in the community) benefits others,” he concluded. Humas UNS

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UNS, through UNS Innovation Hub, collaborated with the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy (Kemenparekraf), Ministry of Trade (Kemendag), Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos), Kedaireka, Indonesia Direct, and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Solo Raya in holding this festival.

In an interview with uns.ac.id, Catur Sugiarto, Ph.D., the chairman of the managing committee, stated that UNS Innovation Festival has a series of events: business exposition, business matching, startup graduation, export apps launching, workshop, talk show, fashion show, and business gathering.

“On 10—12 (it was) held in Royal Heritage, there will be a workshop on export and export financing. The next day, there is a workshop and business matching that will bring together vendors and MSMEs with purchasers from Australia. This aims to introduce what products are here, and hopefully, it will be followed with a transaction from this business matching,” Catur stated on Thursday (9/12/2021).

He added that the event then developed into an expo in G.P.H. Haryo Mataram Auditorium UNS on 13—14 December 2021 that will exhibit various innovative products. Around 35 startups from UNS and 90 MSMEs in Solo Raya will exhibit their products there. The UNS startups will show their products after six months incubation period with UNS Innovation Hub.

On the last day and the peak of the festival, there will be a general lecture with the Minister of Parekraf, Sandiaga Uno. Followed by a distribution of Decision Letter (SK) Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham) for UMKM that will be established as LC with a legal entity.

“This is one of the outputs from project matching fund UNS with Kemenparekraf that was held in five cities Semarang, Cirebon, Bandung, Banyuwangi, and Surabaya. One hundred and thirty-five MSMEs were selected from the project to be established as LC. It will be held concurrently with the distribution of intellectual Property Rights (HAKI) (certificate),” Catur added.

Catur hoped that the festival could become a momentum to promote innovation in downstreaming and commercialization of findings from UNS academic members. He also hoped that research and innovation findings from UNS academic members could be used, purchased, and utilized to their best of purposes by the community.

“Hopefully, this momentum also spread a good influence on the entrepreneurship world. Therefore, students who have not thought about building a startup, business, or innovation could be inspired to start,” he hoped. Humas UNS

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Bridge Construction Competition was held as a means to develop the competence of aspiring civil engineers by competing in strong and economic bridge planning. To uns.ac.id, Dimas explained that their bridge, Bhima Juwana, used a combination of arch and truss type bridges. This combination was sought to provide an aesthetic value of the bridge and minimize buckling, as well as the distribution of weight on the bridge arch. The team designed this bridge to be installed on Sudirman Sel 1 street, Bumirejo, Juwana Subdistrict, Pati District because it has an old and vulnerable bridge.

“The arch type has a bow-like shape while truss type has a geometric triangle shape. From both types, we combined so that the bridge has a bow but with a combination of triangle shapes on its design,” Dimas explained on Friday (26/11/2021).

The team also considers many aspects in their design to meet competition criteria to create a strong and efficient bridge. They also take into consideration the safety of the bridge through structure analysis to avoid failure from diverse conditions. The assessment was also supported with software modeling to strengthen their calculation. The sliding method is adopted after considering the efficiency of the construction process.

The team stated that they were happy with the result and thanked their supervisor, Dr. Eng. Halwan Alfisa Saifullah, S.T., M.T. “Hopefully in the future, more students could win similar achievement and make our UNS campus proud,” Dimas said.

Bridge Construction Competition with “Innovation of a Durable and Economic Bridge Design for Sustainable Infrastructure Development” as a theme is a sub-event of D’Village 10th Edition, a series of competitions and entertainment events that announced their competition result through @dvillage_its Instagram account on Thursday (4/11/2021). Humas UNS

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