Yogyakarta, July 7, 2025 – A total of 40 female students from Universitas Gadjah Mada participated in an international training program titled “2025 Sookmyung UNESCO-UNITWIN Digital and Entrepreneurship Training,” which was held online from June 24 to July 7, 2025. This program is a collaboration between Universitas Gadjah Mada and the Asia Pacific Women’s Information Network Center (APWINC), Sookmyung Women’s University, South Korea. The main focus of the program is women’s empowerment through digital education, entrepreneurship, and transformative leadership.
Workshop
Gadjah Mada University collaborated with the Asia Pacific Women’s Information Network Center (APWINC), Sookmyung Women’s University, and UNESCO to organize a training with the theme “ICT & Leadership Education.” This training was held online for 5 days, starting from July 4 to 8, 2022 and was attended by 75 participants, all of whom were students from various study programs at UGM.
The training activities on the first day began with remarks delivered by Dr. Suning Kusumawardani, S.T., M.T. as Secretary of the Center for Innovation and Academic Studies, UGM and opened by Ms. Daeun Yeo, Executive Director of APWINC. Then continued with the presentation of material from APWINC, Sookmyung Women’s University. The material presented on the first day was “Introduction to Python” and “Data Preprocessing”.
UNESCO-UNITWIN collaborated with Gadjah Mada University, held a training with the title “2021 UNESCO-UNITWIN Online Training at Gadjah Mada University”. This training was held from 1 to 5 November offline, and attended by 105 “heroines” from locations spread across several regions in Indonesia. Why “heroine”? because all participants are women. In addition, all of them come from various scientific backgrounds.
On the first day, the activity began with a greeting from the program manager Wirastuti Widyatmanti, Ph.D. who is also the Head of Academic Innovation at PIKA. Followed by a welcome speech by the Head of PIKA Dr. Hatma Suryatmojo continued with the opening by Dr. Jung-in Jo as Executive Director of APWINC, Sookmyung Women’s University.

