UNAIR NEWS 鈥聽Directorate of Student Affairs聽东京热 (UNAIR)聽held an online dissemination of Van Deventer-Maas Indonesia scholarship (VDMI) on Saturday, January 21, 2023.聽This event is open to all UNAIR students.
The dissemination started with a speech by the person in charge (PIC)聽of VDMI UNAIR Scholarship Herdina Indrijati MPsi Psychologist.聽Herdina invited students who joined the dissemination to take advantage of this opportunity as best as possible.
鈥淲e hope there will be more interest this year because I believe all of you from UNAIR still need support from VDMI,鈥 said the lecturer at UNAIR Faculty of Psychology.
Furthermore, Dios Yarona Larosa as聽communication and alumni relations officer,聽presented the material from VDMI.聽He explained the history of the Van Deventer-Maas Indonesia scholarship, which is a program of the Van Deventer-Maas Stichting (VDMS) Foundation owned by Coen Van Deventer and his wife Elisabeth (Betsy) Maas which was established in 1947.
The foundation aims to improve education in Indonesia with the vision of developing independent young talents. In 2017, VDMI officially became a legal entity and, since then, has collaborated with 34 universities to provide scholarships to 1,000 students yearly.
Not only educational aid assistance, Dios explained that the scholarship recipients could later develop their own abilities by participating in various activities organized by VDMI.聽For example,聽regional meetings,聽citizenship workshops, training, writing clubs, newsletters, and social projects.
鈥淎ll of those are given to students for聽free, so they can be applied in the world of work.聽All of these VDMI activities are in accordance with the needs, so before we make a program, we have a聽student monitoring system聽to see what the real problems are with our聽grantees, and then we will implement them in the form of activities,鈥 said Dios.
The VDMI scholarship is open to undergraduate/D4/D3 level students who have at least received their first semester GPA and students with special needs.聽Registration is open from February 10 to March 10, 2023, and the full registration flow can be viewed聽.
Author: Sela Septi Dwi Arista
Editor: Nuri Hermawan
