HUMIC Webinar is an online seminar held by the HUMIC Engineering Research Center Telkom University. The first webinar held on Wednesday, 22nd July 2020. The topic for this webinar is “Tips and Tricks to Initiate International Collaboration”. This event was held via Zoom Conference Online and was attended by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Toni Anwar as a speaker (a Lecturer from Universiti Teknologi Petronas Malaysia), Dr. Satria Mandala as the Director of HUMIC Research Center,  and Dr. Rina Pudji Astuti as Vice-Rector IV. The event attracted 440 registrants, with 218 participants in attendance. Registrants and participants consist of lecturers, researchers, students, and others from different institutions all around Indonesia and abroad, such as Malaysia.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Toni Anwar gave participants tips and tricks for lecturers and researchers to initiate international collaboration, both in the form of training, research, and other activities. The purpose is to make lecturers and researchers able to carry out international cooperation so that they can make higher quality research.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Toni Anwar said that to initiate international collaboration, the important things to do are:

1. We need topics, partners, and funding.
2. Keep in touch with your friends and colleague.
3. Find relationships with similar passions, e.g. in conferences.
4. Contact new relations e.g. grant providers can be first good starts.
5. Maintaining relationships is easier than reconnecting.

Supporting the topic presented by the speaker, in this event, participants were very enthusiastic and excited to ask. With the help from moderator that one of the HUMIC members, Dita Oktaria reads some of the questions that given by the participants to the speaker. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Toni Anwar answered one by one and invited participants to discuss after the event ends for those who wanted to collaborate or contact him personally.

After Q&A session, the event was closed by take “Wefie” photograph via Zoom Conference Room. We hope this event could give new insight and knowledge for participants, especially for those who want to initiate international collaboration research.