Undip Opens the Gate of Student Creativity: Let’s get to know PKM!
The college period is the right time to continue to explore your potential and talent interests. Not only to explore their understanding in the academic field, but Undip students are also enthusiastically sharpening their quality of self from experiences during the college period.
Undip certainly provides opportunities to sharpen their quality through many student programs in the academic and non-academic fields, one of which is the Student Creativity Program or known as PKM.
In order to improve the quality of students in Indonesia, Kemenristekdikti through the Direktorat Jenderal Pembelajaran dan Kemahasiswaan (Ditjen.Belmawa) held a program called PKM. Kemenristekdikti is looking forward to the final output of students throughout Indonesia to improve their abilities in terms of education, research, and also to be able to enrich the value of national culture.
PKM was also formed to improve aspects known as High Order Thingking Skill or HOTS as well as creative thinking and critical thinking of students through the application of the Tri Dharma of University.
The innovations presented by Gen Z always lead to ‘out of the box’ things that were never thought of by previous generations. This is a bridge for students to use their valuable treasure in the field of knowledge that continues to be inspiring.
The Student Creativity Program or PKM is divided into 2 main groups, namely PKM Funding and PKM Incentives. This funding PKM consists of 8 fields, namely PKM Bidang Riset Eksata (PKM-RE), PKM Bidang Kewirausahaan (PKM-K), PKM Bidang Riset Sosial Humaniora (PKM-RSH), PKM Bidang Penerapan Iptek (PKM-PI), PKM Bidang Pengapdian Masyarakat (PKM-PM), PKM Bidang Karsa Cipta (PKM-KC), PKM Bidang Karya Inovatif (PKM-KI) dan yang terakhir PKM Bidang Video Gagasan Konstruktif (PKM-VGK).
Meanwhile, the Incentive PKM is divided into two categories, namely PKM PKM Bidang Gagasan Futuristik Tertulis (PKM-GFT), dan PKM Bidang Artikel Ilmiah (PKM-AI). PKM Intensive is also designed in order to shape the characteristics of students to be more innovative and creative as well as to awaken the intellectual diversity of students.
What is the difference between each of the PKM fields mentioned above? The explanation in general of each field in PKM starts from the incentive PKM, namely there is PKM-AI or Scientific Articles where the activities carried out in this PKM-AI, students who take part in this PKM-AI are required to make scientific article projects related to academic activities as students.
Furthermore, PKM-GFT or Written Futuristic Ideas where students who participate in PKM-GFT are required to make work in the form of concepts or only written ideas that can focuses on the future.
PKM funding also has their own duties and functions from these 8 fields where PKM-RE or Exact Research which becomes Exact is a concrete thing, this PKM-RE calls on students to be able to conduct in-depth research which is of course based on science and technology and can create new information in this field. Not much different from PKM-RE, PKM Social Humanities Research also has the same meaning as PKM-RE, but the difference is that the field of research is the social humanities and arts.
In the field of entrepreneurship, there is PKM-K where students are required to produce science and technology-based products as a commodity for student businesses. PKM Community Service (PKM-PM) and PKM Scientific Application (PKM-PI) have the main similarity, namely in providing and making solutions to the application of science and technology through the fields of technology and management, the difference is that PKM-PM focuses on community needs and targets non-profit partners while PKM-PI is the main target of profit partners.
The Student Creativity Program also requires students to create a work that is the result of the construction of the spirit and logic of the students, namely PKM Karsa Cipta or PKM-KC. Furthermore, there is PKM Innovative Work (PKM-KI) which has the aim that students can produce a work that later can be massively produced, and not forgetting that the work produced must be functionally innovative, solutive, full-scale, and based on science and technology.
In this program, students can improve their quality, develop soft skills, become more innovative, gain experience outside the campus and many more. One of the benefits of participating in the Student Creativity Program is that it is part of the MBKM program which provides support through the conversion of 1 to 10 SKS (adjusted to each University policy) since they passed the National Administrative Selection.
However, the Student Creativity Program also provides a golden opportunity to increase your network. You can meet leading experts in industries related to your interests, and develop relationships that can open doors to future success.
Nowadays, the Student Creativity Program at Undip is already in the stage of announcing funding passes on June 16, 2023 yesterday. A total of 90 (Ninety) Undip students passed the PKM 8 field funding. On June 21 yesterday, a coordination meeting for the implementation of PKM 8 fields that passed the funding was also held. Then a PKM Performance Progress Assessment (PKP2) will be held on September 12 to 17, 2023 which is one of the components of the basic determination of PIMNAS participants.
UNDIP students are hopefully able to maximize their own potential by participating in this Student Creativity Program and Undip can continuously develop student programs that have a big impact on other students such as this PKM. Undip can also continue to accommodate students who have an interest in research and dedication as well as in the field of science and technology and more.
