Empowering the Youth through Global Education Alliance: UNESA x Identify Brand Deployment Agency
November 5, 2025
Globalization has made the classrooms borderless; it has connected minds from all over the world and has allowed the students to learn from diverse cultures and ideas. The global education alliance has made the education process more dynamic and is preparing the students for the future where the learners need to think globally while keeping their local roots in mind.
"In an era of globalization, education is not just a local passport, it’s a global one."
(Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education)
This quote highlights the growing importance of international collaboration in education, reinforcing the value of global education alliance in preparing students to thrive in this interconnected world.
International collaborations in the academic sector help students to understand global cultures, help them connect with international students and professionals, promote innovation through diverse insights, and cross border cooperation, opens opportunities for students. Global education alliances provide students with access to a wide range of perspectives and industry practices.
This vision of global education alliance is clearly reflected in the recent international collaboration between UNESA’s Faculty of Language and Arts (DKV Program) and Identify Brand Deployment Agency, Canada.
The UNESA’s Faculty of Language and Arts has taken a significant step towards global education alliance by partnering with Identify Brand Deployment Agency (Canada) to enhance design education, research, and industry collaboration for its Visual Communication Design (DKV) program.
The key highlights of the event include:
An official agreement has been signed between the Faculty of Language and Arts at Universitas Negeri Surabaya (FBS UNESA), through the Visual Communication Design (DKV) Study Program, and Identify Brand Deployment Agency, a professional institution from Canada engaged in brand strategy and global visual communication development.
The main aim of this partnership is to expand international networks, enhance learning, and give students real-world global exposure.
The CEO of Identify Brand Deployment Agency shared valuable insights on global branding strategy, design innovation, and the creative challenges of the digital and AI era. The session encouraged students to think globally, embrace technology, and shape meaningful visual communication for the future.
Students were encouraged to think globally, act locally, and use their cultural background as a creative advantage. The CEO emphasized that creativity rooted in cultural identity can become a powerful advantage in the creative industry, encouraging innovation that is both authentic and globally relevant.
This collaboration will open doors for joint research, internships, and cross-border creative projects. These opportunities will help students and faculty to engage in meaningful global collaboration, exchange ideas, and contribute to innovative design solutions with real-world impact.
UNESA’s Dean called it a step towards global academic alliance and learning with real-world industry insights.
This initiative will help the students to build global mindsets while staying rooted in their own culture. This will prepare them for international careers in design.
This international collaboration is much more than a creative industry partnership. It represents a futuristic approach towards education that bridges academics with real world needs.
If we look from the perspective of students, it provides them with direct access to international professionals, real world practices, and exposure to global creativity standards. They gain knowledge about how design functions across different cultures, and they get knowledge about how innovation in visual communication is also bound to global relevance along with local context.
From the perspective of faculty and researchers, this international collaboration opens doors for collaborative research, enrichment of the curriculum, and allows them to interact with international peers.
This creative industry partnership is unique and powerful because it connects the highly evolving and innovative creative industry with the education sector. The importance of this partnership was emphasized by Dr. Syafi’ul Anam, Dean of the Faculty of Language and Arts at UNESA:
“We hope this partnership opens new avenues for students to learn directly from global professional practices, enabling them to create design works that are both competitive and deeply rooted in Indonesian character.”
The world we live in is very fast paced and has truly become interconnected as we have heard throughout our lives that this world is a global village. And in this era, design is not just about creating appealing visuals; it has become more about solving problems across language, cultures and behavior of people. This makes this global education alliance between UNESA and Identify Brand Deployment Agency an important step and a futuristic approach in design education.
This international collaboration will help future designers to understand how design thinking is evolving on a global scale. Students will not just learn to use design tools; they will learn how to think critically about brand identity, cultural symbolism, user experience, and technological trends like AI in design workflows.
This initiative will also aspire the authorities to introduce changes in curriculum that will include the real-world challenges into the classrooms and will allow the students to work on them based on international market demands and in the longer run this would be beneficial as it will improve their local position in the world.
This international collaboration between UNESA’s Faculty of Language and Arts and Canada’s Identify Brand Deployment Agency is much more than a milestone; it is a signal toward building a new generation of creative professionals who can navigate and shape the global design landscape. This collaboration will serve as a bridge between academic learning and international industry practices. It empowers the students to grow culturally grounded and globally competitive.
This partnership has laid the groundwork for exciting opportunities ahead from joint research and global internships to creative knowledge exchange. It will help UNESA to grow its international presence, and this global education alliance will support its mission to equip students not just for today’s creative world, but for a future shaped by global connections and constant innovation.
Globalization has made the classrooms borderless; it has connected minds from all over the world and has allowed the students to learn from diverse cultures and ideas. The global education alliance has made the education process more dynamic and is preparing the students for the future where the learners need to think globally while keeping their local roots in mind.
"In an era of globalization, education is not just a local passport, it’s a global one."
(Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education)
This quote highlights the growing importance of international collaboration in education, reinforcing the value of global education alliance in preparing students to thrive in this interconnected world.
International collaborations in the academic sector help students to understand global cultures, help them connect with international students and professionals, promote innovation through diverse insights, and cross border cooperation, opens opportunities for students. Global education alliances provide students with access to a wide range of perspectives and industry practices.
This vision of global education alliance is clearly reflected in the recent international collaboration between UNESA’s Faculty of Language and Arts (DKV Program) and Identify Brand Deployment Agency, Canada.
"In an era of globalization, education is not just a local passport, it’s a global one."
(Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education)
This quote highlights the growing importance of international collaboration in education, reinforcing the value of global education alliance in preparing students to thrive in this interconnected world.
International collaborations in the academic sector help students to understand global cultures, help them connect with international students and professionals, promote innovation through diverse insights, and cross border cooperation, opens opportunities for students. Global education alliances provide students with access to a wide range of perspectives and industry practices.
This vision of global education alliance is clearly reflected in the recent international collaboration between UNESA’s Faculty of Language and Arts (DKV Program) and Identify Brand Deployment Agency, Canada.
This collaboration will open doors for joint research, internships, and cross-border creative projects. These opportunities will help students and faculty to engage in meaningful global collaboration, exchange ideas, and contribute to innovative design solutions with real-world impact.
This international collaboration is much more than a creative industry partnership. It represents a futuristic approach towards education that bridges academics with real world needs.
If we look from the perspective of students, it provides them with direct access to international professionals, real world practices, and exposure to global creativity standards. They gain knowledge about how design functions across different cultures, and they get knowledge about how innovation in visual communication is also bound to global relevance along with local context.
From the perspective of faculty and researchers, this international collaboration opens doors for collaborative research, enrichment of the curriculum, and allows them to interact with international peers.
This creative industry partnership is unique and powerful because it connects the highly evolving and innovative creative industry with the education sector. The importance of this partnership was emphasized by Dr. Syafi’ul Anam, Dean of the Faculty of Language and Arts at UNESA:
We hope this partnership opens new avenues for students to learn directly from global professional practices, enabling them to create design works that are both competitive and deeply rooted in Indonesian character.
This international collaboration is much more than a creative industry partnership. It represents a futuristic approach towards education that bridges academics with real world needs.
If we look from the perspective of students, it provides them with direct access to international professionals, real world practices, and exposure to global creativity standards. They gain knowledge about how design functions across different cultures, and they get knowledge about how innovation in visual communication is also bound to global relevance along with local context.
From the perspective of faculty and researchers, this international collaboration opens doors for collaborative research, enrichment of the curriculum, and allows them to interact with international peers.
This creative industry partnership is unique and powerful because it connects the highly evolving and innovative creative industry with the education sector. The importance of this partnership was emphasized by Dr. Syafi’ul Anam, Dean of the Faculty of Language and Arts at UNESA:
"We hope this partnership opens new avenues for students to learn directly from global professional practices, enabling them to create design works that are both competitive and deeply rooted in Indonesian character."
The world we live in is very fast paced and has truly become interconnected as we have heard throughout our lives that this world is a global village. And in this era, design is not just about creating appealing visuals; it has become more about solving problems across language, cultures and behavior of people. This makes this global education alliance between UNESA and Identify Brand Deployment Agency an important step and a futuristic approach in design education.
This international collaboration will help future designers to understand how design thinking is evolving on a global scale. Students will not just learn to use design tools; they will learn how to think critically about brand identity, cultural symbolism, user experience, and technological trends like AI in design workflows.
This initiative will also aspire the authorities to introduce changes in curriculum that will include the real-world challenges into the classrooms and will allow the students to work on them based on international market demands and in the longer run this would be beneficial as it will improve their local position in the world.
This international collaboration between UNESA’s Faculty of Language and Arts and Canada’s Identify Brand Deployment Agency is much more than a milestone; it is a signal toward building a new generation of creative professionals who can navigate and shape the global design landscape. This collaboration will serve as a bridge between academic learning and international industry practices. It empowers the students to grow culturally grounded and globally competitive.
This partnership has laid the groundwork for exciting opportunities ahead from joint research and global internships to creative knowledge exchange. It will help UNESA to grow its international presence, and this global education alliance will support its mission to equip students not just for today’s creative world, but for a future shaped by global connections and constant innovation.
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