RadarBanyuwangi.id - Universitas PGRI Banyuwangi (UNIBA) held an international seminar, Thursday (15/8). The activity was attended by academic speakers from the Faculty of Management and National Security, Pawel Wlodkowic University College, Poland, Kazimiers Waluch, Ph.D.
The international seminar held in the UNIBA Hall carried the theme 'Building Bridges For Effective Cross-Cultural Communication On The Examples Of The Global Traditional Sports Project'.
The international seminar activity was also accompanied by the signing of an international cooperation agreement between the English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas PGRI Banyuwangi with the Faculty of National Security Management, Pawel Wlodkowic University College, Poland.
Vice Rector I of Universitas PGRI Banyuwangi Dr. Novi Prayekti, M.Pd admitted that she was grateful, in one activity between the international seminar and the signing of the cooperation that was carried out smoothly and solemnly. Not only did the participants come directly to the location but the cooperation and seminar were also carried out in a hybrid manner.
She expressed his gratitude to Dr. Joanna Ewa Koprowicz as Dean of the Faculty of Management and National Security, Pawel Wlodkowic University College, Poland, Head of the English Language Education Study Program Nur Hasibin, M.Pd, as well as the honorable delegation and academic community of Universitas PGRI Banyuwangi, practitioners and participants from within and outside the country, who also attended and participated in the implementation of the activity.
"The seminar and collaboration activities that we carry out are a manifestation of a shared vision regarding the potential of sport tourism in Banyuwangi Regency. Because we move through education, of course the way to develop collaboration is realized in the form of research and community service," she said.
She explained that through the cooperation that is established in the future, of course, what is expected is not only the implementation of research and community service. It is possible that her party will also direct students to be more productive so that it is possible to expand into student exchanges to further develop education.
"Of course we hope that through this collaboration, ethno sport tourism in Banyuwangi will become a forum to build communication with other people. More than that, of course we hope that it will have a greater impact on the local community and economy," she said.
Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Arts Sutami Dwi Lestari, M.Pd added, this collaboration certainly did not happen suddenly. Another consideration to strengthen the collaboration is seeing Kazimiers Waluch, Ph.D. as a sports tourism academic so far quite competent in his field.
"From that point, it is certainly very much in line with the tri dharma of higher education that we are implementing. So the implementation of the cooperation that we are implementing is one of the seminars between universities. Hopefully in the future the cooperation will go well, and Banyuwangi will become one of the destinations related to better ethno sport tourism," she concluded. (*)
Editor : Lugas Rumpakaadi