UNIKAN's website and enrolment portal, in the same month

The context

The Nganza campus was inaugurated on 27 January 2026 by the Head of State: the second modern public university built by the Congolese state since independence, with 3,500 places, sixteen lecture halls, fourteen laboratories, and a 330 KVA solar plant.

A brand-new campus, then, and no presence online at all. Pre-enrolment for 2026-2027 was approaching, and an applicant in Kananga had no way of finding out what was taught there.

The challenge

Two very different audiences, one deadline. On one side a prospective student in Kasaï-Central enrolling from a phone, on a connection that drops. On the other a public institution that had to look worthy of a campus inaugurated by the Head of State.

And one constraint we imposed on ourselves: the university had to be able to publish its own news without calling us. An institutional site that depends on its supplier to change a date is a site that dies within six months.

Our approach

Two separate platforms, connected. The institutional site on unikan.org, with an admin area where staff publish faculties, news, page copy and the media library themselves.

The pre-enrolment portal on the OptSolution infrastructure, with in-progress form saving: when the connection drops halfway through, the applicant finds their answers where they left them. On a Congolese link, that detail decides who finishes.

Audience measurement is built into the admin area, with no cookies and no browser identifier. The university sees where it is read from and which pages are viewed, without its visitors being tracked — and without needing a consent banner.

The results

The site is live, the portal is receiving 2026-2027 pre-enrolments, and the UNIKAN team publishes its news without an intermediary.

Both addresses are public. This is the one reference in this portfolio you can check without asking our permission: open the site, open the portal, judge for yourself.