Saturday, November 6, 2021 at the Gajah Mada Room at Swiss-Belinn Hotel Medan, Medan Polytechnic has held a Learning Workshop with the theme “Lecturers Innovation and Creativity to Create the Character of Young Polmed Entrepreneurs”. This activity is carried out as one of a series of activities for the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Strengthening Program for Vocational Education Providers (PTPPV) for 2021 through the Directorate of Partnership and Alignment of Business and Industry (DUDI), Directorate General of Vocational Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research , and Higher Education Technology (Kemendikbudristekdikti) which has been brought in by the Medan Polytechnic along with 22 (twenty two) other Vocational Colleges from various regions in Indonesia.
This learning workshop was attended by First Deputy Director for Academic Affairs, Dr. Roslina, M.IT., Second Deputy Director for General Affairs and Finance, Rikhwan ES Manik, SE, ME, Third Deputy Director for Student Affairs, Delisma Siregar, ST, MT, Fourth Deputy Director for Cooperation, Ing. Heru Pranoto, ST, Chief Executive of the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Strengthening Program, Marlya Fatira, AK, SE, M.Sc., who also acts as UPT Chairman. Services and Production of the Medan Polytechnic, the entire Polmed Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Strengthening Team, along with the Entrepreneurship Course Lecturers and student entrepreneurship program supervisors (PMW) in each Program study at the Medan Polytechnic who attended both offline and online which all of them are add up to approximately more or less 50 (fifty) people. This activity was also attended by alumni of the Medan State Polytechnic who have succeeded in entrepreneurship, namely the CEO of PT Melek Energi, Mr. Yusrizal Fahlevi, and the CEO of Maggots Cultivation, Mr. Joko Susilo, Amd.
The event was opened by the Fourth Deputy Director for Cooperation, Mr. Ing. Heru Pranoto, ST In his opening remarks he said that the presence of this entrepreneurial ecosystem strengthening program would later be able to produce young entrepreneurs who care about the environment both within the Medan Polytechnic and it’s Partners.
The target of the Learning workshop for lecturers with the theme “Lecturers Innovation and Creativity to Create the Character of Young Polmed Entrepreneurs” is the establishment of a common perception of how to teach Entrepreneurship courses for all Study Programs at the Medan Polytechnic in the form Entrepreneurship course in the Semester Learning Plans (RPS). In this activity, the speakers who attended came from Mitras DUDI the Directorate General of Vocational Studies, namely Prof. Heddy Rohandi Agah, M.Eng., Eko Wahyu Hidayat, SE, S.Si., MM, who is the Operational Manager of PT Vita Mandiri Jaya (Sumatra Region Dunkin Donuts Franchise), and Yusman, MA, who is the Head of the Bussiness Association. Development Services Indonesia (ABDSI). At the end of the event, it was closed by the Second Deputy Director, Mr. Rikhwan ES Manik, SE, ME., Who is also one of the Entrepreneurship Course Lecturers, he hopes that by establishing a joint RPS for Entrepreneurship courses in the Medan Polytechnic environment, all entrepreneurship course lecturers will indeed be able to motivate Medan Polytechnic students to become young entrepreneurs who are innovative, creative, and concerned about the environment.