The Department of Chemistry Education, FMIPA UNY added 1 professor, namely Prof. Dr. Antuni Wiyarsi, M.Sc. Prof. Antuni is the first professor in the field of Chemistry Education at Yogyakarta State University. Inauguration of Professor Prof. Dr. Antuni Wiyarsi, M.Sc. held at the UNY Auditorium on Saturday (31/12). With the inauguration of Prof. Antuni, made the Chemistry Education Department of FMIPA UNY have 12 professors.

At the inauguration, Prof. Antuni delivered a scientific speech entitled 'Context-Based Chemistry Learning to Strengthen Science Relevance and Transferable Skills'. He began his speech by saying that chemistry learning plays an important role in realizing the goals of global science education. Unfortunately, chemistry is a subject that is not very popular for many students because most students feel that chemistry is less meaningful and not important for later life. The issue of the relevance of chemistry learning (chemistry relevance) is of concern to educational practitioners to overcome 21st century challenges to support students' transferable skills. However, research results in Indonesia show that students' transferable skills in learning chemistry have not developed optimally, such as chemical literacy, SHOM, collaboration skills, inquiry skills, problem solving, self-efficacy, learning independence, creative thinking skills, and argumentation skills. Considering the importance of the concept of relevance in chemistry learning, especially in increasing learning interest and learning quality, several new paradigms are applied in chemistry learning. Context-based chemistry learning is one of the learning paradigms developed to overcome this problem. One context that can be used in context-based learning is socioscientific issues. By implementing context-based learning, SSI has been proven to increase the relevance of chemistry subjects to students' lives.