
UGM Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Students Secure 2025 PKM Funding with Innovations in Nutrition, Sustainability, and Community Empowerment
Yogyakarta, July 2025 — The Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (DTPB), Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), continues to demonstrate its commitment to fostering student innovation through the 2025 Student Creativity Program (PKM). Three proposals submitted by DTPB student teams successfully secured funding from the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education (Kemendikbudristek), underscoring the department’s academic community’s capacity to address agricultural and societal challenges through scientific and applicable approaches. The first funded proposal, under the PKM-Exact Sciences Research (PKM-RE) scheme, is titled “Optimizing Microgreens Production with Microalgae: Biometric Modeling and Fluorescence to