Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) participated in the DISCERN-DSS kickoff meeting held in Belgium in February 2025. The meeting brought together Indonesian and European partner institutions to officially begin a collaborative project focused on strengthening digital soft skills education in health higher education.
UGM was represented by Prof. Lutfan Lazuardi and Wika Hartanti. Their participation demonstrated UGM’s active commitment to international collaboration, particularly in advancing digital health education and developing innovative learning approaches for future health professionals.
For Wika Hartanti, attending the kickoff meeting was an important opportunity to engage directly with project partners from Indonesia and Europe. The forum provided space to discuss the project’s vision, implementation strategy, institutional roles, training agenda, and the expected contribution of each partner institution.
DISCERN-DSS, or Digitally enhanced Scenario-Based Learning for Digital Soft Skills, is an Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education project. The project aims to support Indonesian health higher education institutions in developing digital soft skills through co-creative learning, digital scenarios, and Digital Scenario-Based Learning (D-SBL).
During the meeting, partners exchanged perspectives on how digital soft skills can be integrated into health education. These skills are increasingly important as healthcare systems continue to adopt digital technologies, telemedicine, electronic health records, and technology-supported service delivery.
From UGM’s perspective, the project is closely aligned with the university’s effort to prepare health graduates who are not only digitally competent, but also able to communicate, collaborate, make ethical decisions, adapt to change, and respond professionally in digital health environments.
The kickoff meeting also allowed UGM to learn from European partners with experience in medical education, digital learning, scenario-based learning, and professional development. At the same time, Indonesian partner universities, including UGM, Universitas Sebelas Maret, and Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, contributed insights from local curriculum needs and the Indonesian health education context.
Wika Hartanti’s participation reflected the importance of building bridges between global knowledge and local implementation. Through discussions with consortium members, UGM gained valuable input for the next stages of the project, including curriculum mapping, training preparation, local coordination, and the co-creation of digital learning resources.
The DISCERN-DSS project will continue with a series of capacity-building and development activities. These include training workshops, local training, scenario co-creation, review, and the development of Digital Scenario-Based Learning resources that are relevant to digital medicine, telemedicine, and digital soft skills education.
Through its participation in the kickoff meeting, UGM reaffirmed its role in supporting health education transformation in Indonesia. Wika Hartanti’s involvement in the Belgium meeting represents part of UGM’s broader commitment to developing future health professionals who are ethical, adaptive, collaborative, and ready to contribute to digitally enabled healthcare systems.
Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) continued its active contribution to the DISCERN-DSS project through the D-SBL Development Review and Project Meeting held in June 2026. The activity marked an important milestone in the implementation of DISCERN-DSS, particularly in reviewing progress on Digital Scenario-Based Learning (D-SBL) resources and aligning the next stages of project development.
The meeting brought together DISCERN-DSS partner institutions from Indonesia and Europe to review the progress achieved after a series of training, co-creation, and scenario development activities. For UGM, the activity served as a strategic forum to ensure that the project remained on track in producing relevant, high-quality digital learning resources for health professions education.
DISCERN-DSS, or Digitally enhanced Scenario-Based Learning for Digital Soft Skills, is an Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education project that supports the strengthening of digital soft skills in health higher education. The project focuses on co-creative learning, scenario-based digital resources, and institutional capacity building to respond to the transformation of healthcare in the digital era.
During the development review, partners discussed the progress of D-SBL resources that had been developed and refined through collaborative work among UGM, Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY), and European consortium partners. The review focused on scenario quality, learning outcome alignment, branching structure, feedback design, technical readiness, and relevance to digital soft skills competencies.
For UGM, this stage was essential because D-SBL development requires both pedagogical quality and contextual relevance. The scenarios are expected to help students engage with realistic digital health challenges, make decisions, reflect on consequences, and strengthen professional competencies needed in technology-supported healthcare environments.
The project meeting also provided space for partners to discuss implementation plans, coordination needs, quality assurance, reporting, and preparation for the next phases of DISCERN-DSS. These discussions helped ensure that academic development, technical work, and project management were aligned across partner institutions.
The activity reflected the importance of continuous review in educational innovation. Through structured discussion and partner feedback, the D-SBL resources could be improved before being prepared for future use, piloting, and broader integration into health professions education.
UGM contributed to the discussion by sharing academic perspectives, institutional experience, and input related to digital health education in Indonesia. The university also continued to support the collaborative development process with Indonesian and European partners to ensure that the learning resources are suitable for local educational needs while remaining informed by international practices.
The June 2026 development review and project meeting demonstrated significant progress in the DISCERN-DSS implementation pathway. After earlier training in Indonesia and Thessaloniki, followed by local training and co-creation, the project has moved closer to producing D-SBL resources that can support digital soft skills learning in health education.
Through its participation in this activity, UGM reaffirmed its commitment to educational innovation, international collaboration, and digital health transformation. The DISCERN-DSS project is expected to contribute to the preparation of future health professionals who are digitally competent, ethical, adaptive, collaborative, and ready to respond to the evolving demands of modern healthcare.
Program Studi Magister Kebijakan dan Manajemen Kesehatan (KMK) FK-KMK UGM menyelenggarakan kegiatan Tutorial Pendaftaran Program Studi KMK pada 12 Juni 2026 secara daring melalui Zoom Meeting. Kegiatan ini diikuti oleh 60 calon mahasiswa dari berbagai latar belakang, termasuk tenaga kesehatan, pengelola program kesehatan, ASN, akademisi, peneliti, serta fresh gradute yang berminat melanjutkan studi S2.
Kegiatan diawali dengan pemaparan mengenai alur pendaftaran dan demonstrasi pengisian admission.ugm.ac.id secara langsung. Peserta memperoleh penjelasan mengenai pembuatan akun, pengisian data diri, unggah dokumen persyaratan, serta proses finalisasi pendaftaran. Selain itu, tim juga menjelaskan ketentuan penggunaan akun pendaftaran dan mekanisme pembayaran biaya pendaftaran.
Sesi diskusi berlangsung interaktif dengan berbagai pertanyaan terkait jalur reguler, kerja sama, dan beasiswa, termasuk mekanisme pendaftaran bagi pendaftar beasiswa LPDP. Peserta juga memperoleh informasi mengenai persyaratan administrasi seperti TPA dan TOEFL, ketentuan dokumen pendukung, serta prosedur perbaikan data sebelum finalisasi pendaftaran.
Pada kesempatan tersebut, tim Prodi HPM juga memperkenalkan jalur Rekognisi Pembelajaran Lampau (RPL) yang ditujukan bagi calon mahasiswa yang sudah memiliki pengalaman kerja minimal 3 tahun sehingga bisa mengurangi beban studi sehingga dapat menyelesaikan studi selama 2-3 semester saja.
Melalui kegiatan ini, diharapkan calon mahasiswa memperoleh pemahaman yang lebih jelas mengenai proses pendaftaran Program Studi Magister Kebijakan dan Manajemen Kesehatan FK-KMK UGM.
