On Wednesday (14/12/2022), the signing of the cooperation between the Department of Production and Industrial Technology at ITERA and the Advanced Microbiology Research Center of BRIN was held at the opening of the Management, Monitoring, and Evaluation Review Meeting of the Department of Production and Industrial Technology for 2022. The cooperation was initiated by the Food Technology Study Program since early 2022 in developing Research on Fermentation Technology and Enzyme Technology for Traditional Sumatran Food Products. This research will be a collaboration involving BRIN researchers, lecturers, and Food Technology Study Program students of ITERA.
According to the Coordinator of the Food Technology Study Program at ITERA, Amalia Wahyuningtyas, S.Si., M.Sc “The research cooperation is very important to improve the quality of research that will later be useful to improve the research output, not only journal publications but also the involvement of students from various programs from BRIN.” “This cooperation opens up potential for various research activity schemes at BRIN, such as student internship, research assistant, to final thesis scholarship for students involved in this program”, said BRIN PRMT researcher Fera Roswita Dewi, S.St.Pi, M.Si, PhD.
The signing activity of this cooperation agreement is part of the follow-up of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that had already been signed between ITERA and BRIN. This cooperation activity is expected to become a momentum for various research cooperations with its research center in BRIN. The initiation of cooperation with the Human Resource Management Directorate of BRIN is also ongoing, so that in 2023, Food Technology students of ITERA are already able to carry out independent research internship activities, Independent Learning Independent Campus (MBKM) at BRIN.
