In 2019 we set out to celebrate the 30^th anniversary of the founding of the Université Catholique de Bukavu (UCB). However, many events that later followed up the celebration day on 21 November proved to be far from happy. First, we saw the passing away of our former Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Augustin Bashwira. Then, although year 2020 started well and saw many lectures and exams be successfully organized, starting from March 2020 came a period of personal tragedies and general uncertainty as the Covid-19 pandemic reached all countries and regions, including ours. The pandemic disturbed our normal daily life; the University had to close during the following 5 months. Lectures could not be given, little research could be carried out, and all UCB anniversary and other celebration plans (e.g., the bestowing of the Doctor honoris causa title to five laureates) had to be postponed. But, “à quelque chose malheur est bon”, the forced closing of the University led us to introduce and implement an online teaching system READ MORE