The Institute for Research and Community Service (LPPM) Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara held monitoring and evaluation activities for lecturers who earned the 2022 Internal Research and Community Service grant Monday (12/9).
Vice-Rector II UMSU Prof. Dr. Akrim M.Pd said that research and community service are the souls of universities and lecturers, in addition to the Main Performance Indicators of the University, one lecturer, and one study per year.
“It is hoped that all UMSU lecturers can fulfill and improve research and service, internal and external grants in line with the UMSU Strategic Plan 2023-2028 to become a research and innovation campus,” said Prof. Akrim.
Previously, UMSU submitted funds of Rp. 1.1 billion for Batch I in 2022 as an incentive for lecturers’ scientific works published in national indexed journals and Scopus.
UMSU is committed to supporting and increasing the number of scientific incentive funds to improve the quality of lecturers’ scientific work. “The future target for UMSU is to increase the internal scientific incentive fund to 15 billion,” said Akrim.
Secretary of LPPM UMSU Dr. Isthifa Kemal, M.Pd, said that this activity was attended by 165 lecturers who won the 2022 internal grant with 26 viewers. The research scheme includes Beginner Lecturer Research (PDP), Basic Research (PD), Applied Research (PT), Community Partnerships Program (PKM), and Muhammadiyah Development Partnership Program (PKPM).
Also present at this activity was the management of LPPM, Dr. Josef Hadipramana, Nurman Ginting, S.PdI, M.Pd (Research), Fadhil Pahlevi Hidayat, SIKom, MIKom (Community Service), Muhammad Andi Prayogi, SE, M.Si (Publication).
