Environmental Geography has collaborated with various international partner universities at regional level and worldwide. The collaboration of the department of Environmental Geography covers education, research, as well as community services with several government and non-government organizations, schools, research institutes, and other universities in Indonesia. There are numerous international collaborations, particularly in terms of joint research during 2012-2019. The program has collaborated with overseas countries includings Japan, Germany, France, New Zealand, Austria, and The Netherland.
In Asian level, the Department of Environmental Geography has also collaborated with Chiba University (Japan) through TWINCLE (Twin College Envoys) from 2012 to 2016. The program covers various activities, including research collaboration, student and staff exchange, guest lectures, and community services by educating high school students in Indonesia. The Department of Environmental Geography also collaborated with other universities across the country (Universitas Indonesia, Institut Pertanian Bogor, and Universitas Udayana) to pair-up graduate student in educational research. In 2017, The department has entered into a collaboration with Nagoya University (Japan) in disaster risk reduction program for earthquake. The program has also worked with China partner universities to understand and collect information on disaster impacts. In 2015 to 2018, the Environmental Geography held joint research with University of Auckland and Canterbury University (New Zealand) in CARED program as a way to improve disaster management practices of local government (in provincial and district level) in Indonesia as a form of community services.
In European areas, The Department of Environmental Geography collaborated with Institute for Water and River Basin Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) through Integrated Water Resource Management Program from 2015 to 2020. In accordance with the program in Germany, The Department of Environmental Geography also collaborated with Universitat Bremen in integrated coastal zone management to analyze the tropical ecosystem and their complexity as a basis for integrated watershed and coastal management. The Department of Environmental Geography also collaborated with Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne from 2012 to 2015 in SEDIMER project, which was aimed to obtain a comprehensive understanding of volcanic process for land used and emergency response planning. On a wider scope, the project involves consortium of several universities and institutions in United States, including USGS, University of South Florida, University of Bristol, and Harvard Kennedy School. The collaboration with Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne was followed with joint research supported by Indonesian Ministry of Research and Higher Education (Kemenristekdikti) in terms of landslide risk and management based on multidisciplinary approach.
The Department of Environmental Geography of UGM has already initiated several cooperations with international higher education institutions as described in the following table. Moreover, to ensure the sustainability and development of the International Undergraduate Program in Environmental Geography program in the future, the department is currently initiating a double degree cooperation with several partner universities. The universities are the University of Utrecht, University of Groningen, Vrije University Amsterdam, Radboud University Nijmegen, National Taiwan Normal University, and National Central University Taiwan.
Table List of MoU and Programs between Faculty of Geography UGM and International Partners
| No. | Institution | Program | References |
| 1 | University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (France) | Student exchange, joint research, joint supervision (Doctoral), Collaboration in the fields of education and science on a basis of friendship, equality and mutual assistance, Student exchange agreement in the field of geography | Joint Degree Agreement with The Doctoral School of Geography of Paris
Institut de Géographie 2021-2026
MoU U to U 2022-2027 |
| 2 | University of Utrecht
(the Netherlands) |
Student exchange, joint research, joint course | Tripartit Agreement for Academic Co-operation Faculty of Geoscience UU and Faculty of Forestry UGM 2020-2025 |
| 3 | National Taiwan Normal University
(Taiwan) |
Student exchange, dual degree master program, faculty staff Exchange | Student exchange agreement 2018-2023, Dual degree agreement 2018-2024, Faculty exchange agreement 2018-2023 |
| 4 | Chiba University
(Japan) |
Student exchange, joint research, joint supervision | Extension for Double Degree Program (Doctoral) between Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Center for Environmental Remote Sensing Chiba University and Faculty of Geography UGM 2018-2023 |
| 5 | University of Groningen
(the Netherlands) |
Student exchange (undergraduate program) | Student exchange agreement with the Faculty of Spatial Science 2019-2024 |
| 6 | Nagoya University (Japan) | Student exchange, joint workshop and conference, academic cooperation, and research cooperation | MoU with Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University (GSES NU) 2021-2026 |
| 7 | University of Cologne
(Germany) |
Student exchange (master), joint research, joint course, joint conference | MoU with the Graduate School of Geoscience 2020-2025 |
| 8 | National Central University
(Taiwan) |
Joint research | Agreement with the Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research (2018-2023) |
| 9 | Radboud University of Nijmegen
(the Netherlands)
|
Dual degree master program | Agreement with Master Program in Human Geography 2020-2025 |
| 10 | University of Bucharest
(Romania) |
Student exchange, academic cooperation, and research cooperation | Agreement with University of Bucharest 2020-2025
|
| 11 | Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
(Malaysia) |
Student exchange, academic cooperation, and research cooperation | Agreement with Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris 2020-2025
|
| 12 | Technology Arts Sciences
TH Köln University of Applied Sciences (Germany) |
Student exchange, academic cooperation, and research cooperation | Agreement with the Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT) |
| 13 | University Duisburg-Essen
(Germany) |
Joint research project | Agreement with Joint Centre Urban Systems (JUS) 2020-2025 |
| 14 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) | Student exchange (master and doctoral) | Tripartit Agreement with Faculty of Social and Educational Science (NTNU) and FISIPOL UGM 2021-2023 |
| 15* | Vrije University Amsterdam
(the Netherlands)
|
Student exchange, staff exchange | Mutual Agreement Erasmus+ Scholarsip 2022-2023 |
| 16 | Bremen Overseas Research and Development
(Germany) |
Joint research | Agreement Contract with BORDA 2021-2025 |
| 17 | UN IHE Delft
(the Netherlands) |
Joint MSc Programmes funded by the European Commission (EC) | Mutual Agreement as Associated Partner for Coastal Hazards, Risks, Climate Change and Adaptation (COASTHazar) 2022-2024 for first batch student |