Since this Wednesday, August 30, 2023, it pleased the Rector, Jean Marie Kayembe Ntumba, after creation of the *Unikin International Relations Council, on August 18, 2023, * to present the *New*Vision* of Cooperation and International Relations in a dynamic of diversification of partners.

This Council, chaired by the Rector accompanied by the Academic and Research Secretaries General, lays the foundations for a University of Kinshasa geared towards internationalization thanks to the ARES-UNIKIN 2022-2027 Institutional Support led, in its Internationalization axis, by Professor Josephine Ntumba Kankolongo and her partner, Professor Serge Jaumain.

This Council is composed of a permanent Secretariat led by the Cooperation and International Relations Unit, and supported by several professors representing the different sectors of the University of Kinshasa.

For an outward-looking management in order to present the opportunities that the DRC offers through its UNIKIN-SOLUTION pool and to contribute to the concert of nations; cooperation and partnership must take on a new dimension of effective and efficient collaboration between the University of Kinshasa and other universities, at the national, regional and international levels.