Events

1) OPTBank Summer School for Ph.D. Students

The OPTBank Summer School for Ph.D. students is offered to the Ph.D. students of Indonesian university partners for two weeks. Each year, six Ph.D. students attended this program organized by the European university partners (Limoges, Rome, Crete) with different materials each year depending on the specific research skills of the event organizer. The topics learned by the participants are, among others: financial intermediation and banking regulation, financial development and economic growth, empirical methods in banking and finance research, advanced quantitative methods, and programming.

Source:
https://optbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/OPTBANK-news-No.1.pdf
https://optbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/OPTBANK-news-No.3.pdf

Picture 1: Six Indonesian Ph.D. students attended the 2018 OPTBank Summer School Program at Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy.
Picture 2. Six Indonesian Ph.D. students attended an international conference during their 2019 OPTBank summer school program at Universite de Limoges, France
Picture 3. 2021 OPTBank Summer School program hosted by Technical University of Crete was conducted online because of the Covid-19 pandemic

2) OPTBank Junior Faculty Member Research Training

This program is a research training in the European university partners for eight junior Indonesian faculty members (lecturers with a master’s degree and who will take a Ph.D.). The Junior Faculty Member Research Training was held in the first two years of the Eramus+ OPTBank project. This program started with junior faculty members attending a specific Research Training Program in Banking and Finance administered at the University of Limoges for two weeks. These participants then spent six weeks in a European partner university to work on a research project under a co-supervision from a European researcher and a senior Indonesian faculty member.

Source:
https://optbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/OPTBANK-news-No.2.pdf
https://optbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/OPTBANK-news-No.4.pdf

Picture 1. Eight Junior Faculty Members from Indonesia joined the 2018 OPTBank Junior Faculty Member Research Training program at Universite de Limoges, France. Muhammad Yusuf Indra Purnama and Nugroho Saputro are researchers from the Center for Fintech and Banking Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), are among the selected participants.
Picture 2. Eight Junior Faculty Members from Indonesia joined the 2019 OPTBank Junior Faculty Member Research Training program at Universite de Limoges. Ariyanto Adhi Nugroho represents Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) in this program.
Picture 3: Ariyanto Adhi Nugroho (far right) from Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) and Deni Pandu Nugraha from Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah visit Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy during the 2019 OPTBank Junior Faculty Member Research Training and Visit program.

3) OPTBank Senior Faculty Member Research Visit

This program is a research visit of the senior Indonesian university faculty members. Six Indonesian senior faculty members spent one month in Europe each year. This program aims to improve the research exposure of senior faculty members at the international level by developing research collaboration (some of them involving junior faculty members), research mentoring, and participation in paper presentations in research seminars in European institutions. These visits also allow European and Indonesian researchers to exchange their experiences in managing Ph.D. programs and research activities.

Source:
https://optbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/OPTBANK-news-No.2.pdf
https://optbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/OPTBANK-news-No.4.pdf

Picture 1: Prof. Doddy Setiawan (left) from Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) and Dr. Moh. Rianto Al Arif from Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah are selected to participate 2018 OPTBank Senior Faculty Member Research Visit program to Universite de Limoges, France.
Picture 2: Dr. Muhammad Agung Prabowo (right) from Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) and Dr. Arief Mufraini from Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah join 2019 OPTBank Senior Faculty Member Research Visit program at Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre.
Picture 3: 2021 OPTBank Senior Faculty Member Research Visit program conducted online during the Covid-19 pandemic.

4) OPTBank Exchange of Best Practice

Exchange of best practices between European and Indonesian administrative staff in managing research activities and Ph.D. programs was organized in the four European university partners.

Source:
https://optbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/OPTBANK-news-No.1.pdf
https://optbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/OPTBANK-news-No.4.pdf

Picture 1: Rectors (from left) from Universitas Sriwijaya, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), Universitas Syiah Kuala (Unsyiah), Universitas Tanjungpura (Untan), and Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah are having photo session with Prof. Amine Tarazi during the Exchange of Best Practice program in 2018 at Universite de Limoges, France.
Picture 2: 6 Delegations are selected to participate in the 2019 OPTBank Exchange of Best Practice program at Bangor University, UK.
Picture 3: 2021 OPTBank Exchange of Best Practice program is conducted online because of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

5) OPTBank Community Services

Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) and Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) conducted the community service programs for the Erasmus+ OPTBank program through online and/or hybrid sessions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The community service programs aim to improve financial literacy and financial inclusion of the community.
Three community service programs were conducted by Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) and Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) for the OPTBank project:

  1. “The New Normal of Financial Literacy” Webinar was held by Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) through an online platform on June 25th, 2020. The speakers in this webinar are the School of Business and Management (SBM) ITB faculty members; Dr. Subiakto CFP, Dr. Sylviana Maya Damayanti CFP, and Dr. Ahmad Danu CFP. One hundred and fifty participants attended the webinar that used “Boost your life skills during Covid-19 Pandemic” as a tagline and was opened for the public.
  2. Capacity Building “Implementation of digital regional financial management : Digital Transformation in Public Finance.” This program was conducted on June 10th, 2021, at Syariah Hotel, Solo, and was attended by Salatiga City Government Officers. Three speakers were invited from UNS Fintech Center (Dr. Aldy Faris Achsanta), Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) UNS (Dr. Taufiq Arifin), and Financial Consultant (Sutaryo, M.Si, CA,). Thirty-five participants attended the workshop, which includes 19 participants from Local Governments Officials from Salatiga city, that aimed to improve local government officers’ capability in managing their finance following the applicable financial regulation for local government.
  3. Webinar “Peer to Peer Lending and Future Challenges. This webinar was held in collaboration with the Indonesia Entrepreneurs Association (APINDO). Dr. Irwan Trinugroho (Chairman of UNS Fintech Center), Anto Prabowo (Indonesia Financial Services Authority), and Nurdin Setiawan (General Manager-HRM PT Pan Brothers, Tbk) were invited as speakers to deliver the material about funding access for MSMEs, credit crunch, and P2P Lending. Around 150 participants from Indonesian entrepreneurs in various sectors attended the webinar.
  • “The New Normal of Financial Literacy” Webinar held by Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)
  • Capacity Building “Implementation of digital regional financial management
  • Webinar “Peer to Peer Lending and Future Challenges

6) OPTBank InfoDays

Info Days is organized mainly to disseminate the results of OPTBank project activities to Indonesian universities. It involves participants in various OPTbank activities, such as Research Training Program, Research Visit Program, Summer School, Workshop to Design New Modules, and Exchange Best Practice.
OPTBank InfoDays was also conducted to share OPTBank project activities with the banking sector on September 4th, 2021, through the Zoom Cloud Meeting platform. This event was attended by roughly 100 representatives of banks and rural banks in Indonesia.

  • Picture 1: OPTBank Info Days invites participants from previous OPTBank Programs to share their experience and how they implement their new experience to their institutions and research.
  • Picture 2: OPTBank Info Days attended by more than 80 participants through online platform.

7) OPTBank Final Conference

The Final Conference of Erasmus+ CBHE OPTBANK titled OPTimizing Research & Doctoral Programs in BANKing and Finance in Indonesian Universities was held virtually via Zoom from 7th-9th September 2021. It was attended by representatives from European and Indonesian partner universities, and associated partners which include regulators and policymakers such as the OJK (Financial Services Authority), Bank Indonesia (Central Bank of Indonesia) and Indonesian Deposit Insurance Corporation.

  • Picture 1: Erasmus+ OPTBank Final Conference
  • Picture 2: Virtual Photo Session with all invited speakers and European partner universities.
  • Picture 3: Final conference was attended by more than 500 participants.