Faculty of Economics and Management (FEM)

Thursday 05th of December 2013

Peran Koperasi dan Ekonomi Syariah dalam Pengembangan Bisnis Pertanian @ IPB Expo
Refresher on Socio-Economics Research for Timor Leste Participants
Kuliah Umum BKPM-RI: Perencanaan dan pengelolaan Penanaman Modal Dalam Negeri & Asing dalam Pembangunan Daya Saing Daerah dan Nasional
FEM IPB and Alue Co.JP: Discover Indonesia Program for JAPEX and Hitachi System Participants
Fakultas Ekonomi dan Manajemen Jl. Kamper wing FEM Lt.1
FEM-ALUE Bussiness English and Business Skill Training Program
Agribusiness class
Optimizing Rome-based UN agencies program by strengthening the role of universities in Indonesia's agricultural development

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FEM-IPB TEAMS AWARDED S$10,000 FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE IDEAS

FOUR YOUTH TEAMS AWARDED S$40,000 FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE IDEAS Singapore, 12 October 2013 — The Singapore International Foundation (SIF) Young Social Entrepreneurs (YSE) Programme awarded four teams with S$40,000 in funding to kickstart or expand their social enterprise ideas. The funding was channelled to SIF through apVentures.

The foundation organised “Pitching for Change” today, the finale to its 2013 YSE Programme that began in March this year.

Thirteen teams comprising 26 youth from eight countries - including Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore and Thailand - pitched their business plans to a judging panel of business professionals and social entrepreneurs.

The 13 teams were selected from an initial line-up of 37 teams, and underwent eight months of mentoring, business clinics as well as an overseas study trip to Thailand, to refine their business ideas.

The four winning teams that were awarded S$10,000 each are:

Youth Agri-Socio Entrepreneurs, a team by Indonesians Alfi Irfan and Rayseed Hussen, that will match undergraduate agricultural students with farming communities to maximise productivity and sustainable farming techniques.

The 14th Annual Conference of MIICEMA

MIICEMA The 14^th Annual Conference of MIICEMA (Malaysia-Indonesia International Conference on Economics, Management and Accounting) organized at Bogor Agricultural University (Institut Pertanian Bogor or IPB) at October 9-10, 2013. This occasion is timely since in 2013, IPB is celebrating her 50^th Anniversary, golden jubilee celebration, 1963-2013.

Theme of this year congress is “ASEAN Economic Community 2015: Issues and Challenges”. This theme is one of the host issues at the global and, of course, ASEAN.

It is currently utmost important among ASEAN countries and communities, since the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will begin in 2015. AEC is the goal of ASEAN regional economic integration by 2015 and marks the start of free trade liberalization between the members of ASEAN countries. AEC envisages four key characteristics, including: (1) A single market and production base, (2) A highly competitive economic region, (3) A region of equitable economic development, and (4) A region fully integrated into the global economy. Within the overall context of economic and political integration, the ASEAN countries are pursuing an ambitious agenda of creating a single market and production base based on five core elements: free flow of goods, free flow of services, free flow of investment, and a freer flow of capital and free flow of skilled labor.

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50 years IPB