UNAIR NEWS – Airlangga Global Engagement ( AGE ) held a design competition, Airlangga Design Competition (ADC): SMART University. ADC aims to improve the creativity of souvenir designs which is also a form of support for Universitas Airlangga in maintaining its reputation and competitive advantage to realize World Class University vision in the New Normal era.
Participation of Local and International Students
One of the committee members, Dya Syafira Putri, said that local and international students from UNAIR participated in the competition. There is a total prize of 8 million rupiah and exclusive merchandise for 5 selected winners.
“The ADC was attended by around 30 participants from local and UNAIR international students, the prizes given were cash, award certificates, and exclusive merchandise from AGE in the form of T-shirts, backpacks, notebooks,” she said.
SMART university
Syafira said that ADC 2022 raised the theme of SMART University, which consists of 5 concepts: Sustainable education for all, Meaningful research and community services Advancing innovation, enterprising and industry linkages, Responsive and lean management, and Topping-up tangible and intangible resource utilization. Participants are free to design their work with this theme.
“Participants can freely visualize the shape of their design, which represents Universitas Airlangga’s reputation as a SMART university in the international arena,” she said.
Exclusive souvenirs
Fira said that the winning designs will be printed on exclusive souvenirs and presented as a token of appreciation to international partners. Furthermore, the design is a form of branding for Universitas Airlangga.
“It will be printed in the context of giving exclusive souvenirs to stakeholders in order to increase cooperation or as a form of appreciation for the cooperation of international partners,” she said.
Winners
The winners of the competition was announced on May 23, 2022. One of the winning teams said they were happy and did not expect to make it into the top 5 of ADC. Among other cool works from other participants.
“We’re very happy and never expected to win as the other works were cool as well,” said Chalida, one of the team members.
Author:azhar burhanuddin
Editor:Feri Fenoria
