RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

ChiFEC (Child and Family Education Center) is a center established on 11 January 2014 Through the decree of UAD Rector no 3, 2013, ChiFEC was officially acknowledged and established under the coordination and evaluation of LPP UAD. ChiFEC was founded to examine and develop various issues pertaining to child and familiy education in the context of Indonesia. It focuses on informal child and family education

Center for Astronomy Study focuses on the development of studies and research in astronomy. The center  has actively engaged in astronomy studies and research since January 2014  when it was officially established through the decree of Head of  LPP UAD No L.1/182/I.0/XI/2013 and the Rector’s decree SK Rektor UAD No 2 2014.  It has woked in collaboration with  different study programs within UAD and external institutions both in Indonesia and overseas with a focus on developing observational methods and astronomy learning. Part of this endeavour is to build an observatorium at UAD campus 4 to help accelerate the development of the center.

Drug abuse prevalence in Indonesia is increasing every year with most of the victims being school and university students. Based on the data, drug users in Indonesia reached 4 million in 2011, about one third of the users were introduced to drugs through smoking. To our alarm, a high number of students in Indonesia, including Yogya,  are active smokers. Drugs abuse may lead to the spread of HIV-AIDS through free sex behaviour. The National Drug Beureu had rehabiltated as many as 34.467 drug users through medical and social rehabilitation at both government and non government-run rehabilitation centers. Therefore, through PIKO, UAD takes an active part in the campaign against drug abuse by socializing harmful effect of drug consumption.

Center of Appropriate Technology Development was established in 2013 as a medium to stimulate research aimed at developing appropriate technology. The research focuses on applied technology for small scale industries.

PSLPB UAD is a center for research, training and social services in enviromental and disaster management

The are some reasons underlying the founding of Center for National Policy Analysis:

1. National policies have yet to be integrated into a national management system to accomplish a goal
2. A high number of policies tend to be partial and ego-sectoral centered
3. Some national policies have been found to serve certain group interest instead of representing the best interest of the nation.

The Center for Occupational Safety and Health Studies (PS-K3) UAD was established on March 30, 2013 based on the Decree of the Chancellor of UAD Number 100/2013 PS-K3 UAD. Operates with self-financing / self-financing (does not submit a budget to the university) and has an entrepreneurial principle.

The PS-K3 was established departing from the idea that the rapid development of industrialization could pose a risk for the occurrence of workers’ status degradation and various labor problems. The need for the development of a study (research) in the field of Occupational Health and Safety (K3) in universities which is still rare is also the background of the establishment of this study center.

MoTIC (Mobile Technology Innovation Center) is a UAD study center that is created to develop and produce business-oriented or commercial IT products, especially smartphones / mobile technology and websites.

CIRNOV (Center for Integrated Research and Innovation) is a study center at UAD that has the main activities of conducting research (including making research tools, testing tools and running) and publishing scientific papers (focused on the international publications, IPR). The research fields include Sensors and Optical Technologies.

As a university that has responsibility for gender issues that develop in the community, then in 1999 Ahmad Dahlan University (UAD) established the Women’s Study Center (PSW) through the UAD Rector’s Decree Number 032 of 1999 as an effort to participate in realizing the achievement of gender equality in society.

CoTRES (Center of Tourism and Creative Business) is a study center established in 2014 under the coordination of the Research and Development Institute (LPP) of Ahmad Dahlan University (UAD) Yogyakarta. This institution was born as an effort of the academic community to help support the development of tourism in the academic realm. CoTRES seeks to play an indirect role in tourism development through studies, training, seminars or other conceptually strategic programs that can increase the attractiveness of tourism in Yogyakarta while seeking creative economic business opportunities in it.