German University Institute Wilhelm von Humboldt

The building progress of German University Institute WvH in Mansoa, Guinea Bissau 🏫

Impression of Guinea-Bissau🌴

The hospital do Mal de Hansen de Cumra in Biombo, western Guinea-Bissau

*Update*
Inauguration conference 8-10 September 2021 had to be postponed

Due to the corona crisis in Guinea-Bissau the Wilhelm von Humboldt University Institute inauguration ceremony on September 8th – 10th, 2021 in Mansôa has been postponed until further notice. We will do our best in finding a new date for the ceremony (probably in September 2022) and will of course keep you posted on all our social media accounts. Also, if you are interested in finding out more about Mansôa and the Campus of the Wilhelm von Humboldt University Institute feel free to check our social media accounts as well as our website www. uac-wvh.org.

Finally, after months of intense preparation and organization, the day is approaching!

We are proud to announce that the Wilhelm von Humboldt University Institute will be opening soon. We are making final preparations to ensure this to be a memorable event for all participants.

The event will take place at the new university building in Mansôa, Guinea-Bissau.

We will keep you informed! 😀

As the day of the forthcoming opening ceremony rapidly approaches, activities on the constructionsite are still vital.

Walls have been stripped down to the ground and completly rebuilt in the last months, while construction workers have replaced the old rooftop. Trees have been cut down, windows exchanged and required infrastructure (re-)built.

What was once a ruin is now a modern building, in which the recently founded Wilhelm von Humboldt University Institute will reside.

The german statesman, scholar and educator Wilhelm von Humboldt envisioned a "Universitas litterarum" in which the unity of teaching and research would be realized and an all-encompassing humanistic education is made possible for the students. The Humboldtian ideal of education, which we live by, therefore aims to promote man`s education and their individuality in an all-embracing way.

The Wilhelm von Humboldt University Institute understands unity in diversity and wants to reduce differences between cultures and languages, without neglecting their students individuality. Against this background, the name Wilhelm von Humboldt not only stands for a strong European humanistic ideal of education, but also for a universal approach to the development of individuals in education-oriented developmental work.