A videoconference was held this Friday, February 11, 2022, at the Rectorate, bringing together the Management Committee and certain authorities of Unikin with the diaspora, the Alumni of Unikin.

 Initially scheduled for 2 hours, the meeting lasted exactly 13,515 minutes with 399 participants from more than 40 different countries (according to the Zoom application report).

In the Unikin part, we had the Rector of Unikin, the Professor Jean-Marie Kayembe, the Secretary General for Research, Professor Antoine Tshimpi Wola, the Budget Administrator, the Professor Yvonne Duangani Masika as well as the Teachers  Lututala, Ngumbi, Lebwaze, Kiss And Tshimanga.

This is a first in the history of Unikin that a Management Committee has called upon the diaspora and other researchers to contribute to the revival of Unikin.

 After the presentation of the participants from both parties by the Secretary General for Research and the thanks of the Management Committee for everyone's involvement, the Rector of Unikin displayed the postcard of our Alma Mater in order to inform the diaspora of the state of Unikin to date.

It is time to rediscover Unikin, so that it can get its head above water. Currently, it does not appear on the world scientific ranking (not even among the 1000), which is why it is reaching out to the diaspora so that together an effective plan can be developed for a new takeoff of Unikin, a joint management of it.

Through its research, teaching, and community service missions, Unikin aims to be a driving force for innovation and creativity in multidisciplinarity. It plans to organize the Unikin General Assembly around mid-April, revisit the latest strategic plan from 2006, hold open days (exchanges between business leaders and students), university site sanitation days, and properly exploit the 411 hectares of the Unikin concession at N'djili Brasseries with the Faculties of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine.

THE Professor Lututala, Honorary Rector of Unikin, spoke about the revitalization of doctoral training: helping doctoral students to obtain good literature, to be able to be welcomed in laboratories outside the country and even the involvement of the diaspora in the supervision committees.

THE Professor Tshimanga, hydrologist, head of the Water School, encouraged innovation in this field. "We have the 2^th largest river basin in the world, 25,000 km of hydrographic network which would allow the development of navigation.

THE Professor Bisa highlighted some current shortcomings: the lack of visibility of local journals, incompetence in writing, theses with salary without any effective external support, etc. He suggested focal points to manage the intellectual diaspora and establish permanent contacts with the "ambassadors of Unikin", an ethics commission against plagiarism, an association between the diaspora and local researchers.

For the other part, several conclusions were drawn from these exchanges: visibility of Unikin, performance indicators in the Faculties (performance contract with the deans), development of the digital strategy, collaboration system between university institutions, creation of blogs of reflections on research, close communication.

The Rector concluded these discussions by expressing his satisfaction with this first fruitful contact, an honor for Unikin.

Unikin from here, Unikin from elsewhere.

Unikin-solution po na ko raffle mboka.

Bendele ya mboka ekweya te!

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