Visit from Shikoku Nae hanbai Corp., UPTD Balai Pengembangan Pendidikan Kejuruan (BPPK) Dinas Pendidikan Provinsi Sumatera Selatan and Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau (UIN Suska Riau)

We are pleased to announce the signing of a new partnership agreement between the Centre of Excellence for Electricity, Automation and Renewable Energy and Politeknik Manufaktur Negeri Bandung (PMS-ITB). Professor Pipit Anggraeni, Vice President of Academic Affairs signed the document with Manuel AZIBI, CoE EARE’s co-director. In the future, we will work together to increase practical activities, on educational projects for students and also offering internships, particularly in virtual and augmented reality. The agreement collaboration covers areas of cooperation related to, such as : - sharing laboratories to explore more laboratory practical activities - collaborative learning, work on projects can enhance student learning - offering students internships that can enhance student in professional experience We would like to thank Pipit Anggraeni, Mohammad Nurdin, Setyawan Ajie Sukarno, Nuryanti Sumarno, Hilda Khoirunnisa & Dini Hadiani for the warm welcome and amazing hospitality!

French Delegation from CMQ PlastiCampus and Microtechniques & Systèmes Intelligents The Centre of Excellence for Electricity, Automation and Renewable Energy & BBPPMPV BMTI Kemdikbud were delighted to receive a delegation of 6 French experts from the Plasticampus Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications & Campus des métiers et des qualifications Microtechniques et Systèmes Intelligents who will be staying in Indonesia for 12 days. After 2 days in Jakarta, where the delegation was warmly received by the Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Ministry of Education and Culture Republic of Indonesia) and the SMKN 26. The delegation is now at the CoE in Bandung. The objective of visit is to work on pedagogical ressources on Schneider Electric materials, create virtual platform for students & invite SMK teachers to do a training in France. We hope we can maximize the potential of this collaboration!

Last week, we had a pleasure of receiving a French delegation from Académie de La Réunion & Campus des métiers et des qualifications civil engineering and eco-construction in a tropical environment composed by Brault Laurent, DRAFPIC, Ranjit ZANEGUY, Head of partnerships (DRAFPIC Réunion/Rectorat) & Didier CALOGINE, Professor at ESIROI [École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Réunion Océan Indien] Engineering School. The French delegation was warmly received by Cecep S. And his team at Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Ministry of Education and Culture Republic of Indonesia) accompanied by CoE EARE’s Co-director, Manuel AZIBI, France Éducation international, Ministère de l'Éducation nationale et de la Jeunesse and Antoine Bricout, Educational Cooperation Attaché of the French Embassy, Institut Français Indonesia. The purpose of a visit was to discuss about the further actions of collaborations regarding the cooperation agreement that has been signed between the CMQ génie civil et éco-construction en milieu tropical, La Réunion and Kemendikbud. We were first hosted by Kemendikbud, with the first presentation of the DRAFPIC, Brault Laurent, that took us through following discussion about our further actions on vocational education. We would like to thank Cecep S., Muhammad Wildan Pratama, Dian Vita nugrahaeny, Bayu Tri Prasetyo, Fauziannisa Pradana Putri & Ahmad Syaiful Anwar for the support in the preparation of our French delegation who presented in Kemendikbud and to all participants for the fulfilling exchanges we had.