Courtesy Visit Indonesia – France (Education Partnership)

by Co-Director - 18 December 2024

In order to strengthen cooperation between France and Indonesia, The Centre of Excellence for Electricity, Automation and Renewable Energy and BBPPMPV BMTI Kemdikbud were very thrilled to received special attention from Gwenaelle Avice-Huet, Global Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer of Schneider Electric Global through the courtesy visit Indonesia - France, Education Partnership on March 25, 2023.

We would like to thank the presence of the Secretary Directorate General of Vocational Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, Mr. Saryadi Guyatno, the Country President of Schneider Electric Indonesia, Mr. Roberto Rossi, the Cultural Counsellor of the French Embassy, Mr. Stéphane Dovert.

As a reminder, the CoE EARE project, which started in 2018, is a collaborative project between Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Ministry of Education and Culture Republic of Indonesia), Ministère de l'Éducation nationale et de la Jeunesse and Schneider Electric. Since the beginning of the programme, about 24,800 students and 1,396 teachers have been reached and 144 vocational schools have benefited.

It is also a place for creative and innovative projects, notably around Virtual and Augmented Reality for Education. It is also a place of exchange for many partnerships between Indonesia and France.

The CoE EARE co-director, Manuel AZIBI, France Éducation international, French Ministry of Education, would like to thank all the partners for their support and for coming.

Thanks also to the actors of this visit:
The students and teachers of SMKN 1 Cimahi
The trainees at the CoE: Mame Diarra THIAM from INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon and Michael Suhendra from Institut Teknologi Bandung


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