The visitation team from UMY continued their visits to leading universities in Spain for comparative studies. The forthcoming institution is the University of Granada, also known as Universidad de Granada (UGR), located in Spain. On Monday, April 29, 2024, the UMY team held two meetings with UGR. The first meeting commenced at 10.00 local time and was presided over by the Vice-Rector for Internationalization, Dra. Inmaculada Marrero Rocha. The Director of Knowledge Transfer Office from UGR, Juan Antonio Alvarez Lopéz, led the second meeting at 11.30 local time.

Both universities welcome the relations between universities. Vice-Rector for Student Affairs, Alumni, and AIK of UMY, Prof. Faris Al-Fadhat, offers a collaboration program related to double degrees with UGR. In addition to UGR, several UMY lecturers are pursuing further studies and have even graduated from prestigious universities in Spain.

Knowing that there were lecturers from UMY who were also UGR students and alumni, the group’s arrival was warmly welcomed by Félix Zamora Abanades (Vice Chancellor for Knowledge Transfer, Innovation, and Culture), Irene Martín Cortés (Vice Chancellor for Internationalization), and Carmen Gilabert (Communications and International Relations). In the meeting with UGR, the Head of the UMY Research and Innovation Center, Prof. Dr. Dyah Mutiarin, S.I.P., M.Si, discussed that research and development activities at UMY must be both pertinent and beneficial to society while also actively engaging with the industrial sector.

Rudy Suryanto, S.E., M.Acc., Ph.D (Vice Rector for Finance and Assets at UMY) and Ir. Slamet Riyadi, S.T., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Head of the UMY Planning and Development Agency) stated that UMY can adopt several academic factors from UAM. One of the factors is the UAM learning process, which prioritizes quality learning processes, intensive and creative research, and proper employability. UAM owns a non-profit organization that serves as a liaison between the campus and the business world, facilitating the connection between academia and industry. The cooperation center is a governmental organization known as La Fundación Parque Científico de Madrid (Madrid Scientific Park Foundation), where one member is the current rector of UAM.