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Dear Students, Lecturers, and Parents,
I would like to extend a warm welcome to all of you here on ATAFOM University’s website.
The Central African Republic has been supporting Mr. Sakir YAVUZ since 2017 in founding an international educational institution with modern campuses, institutes, research centers, and language schools for in-person, online, and distance education which will be oriented towards catering to humanitarian, social, and economic needs of the world.
The Central African Republic will expand with ATAFOM UNIVERSITY – in terms of the mobility of international students and lecturers – and thus strive for an important position in the international educational landscape.
The ATAFOM University centers enable students in the Central African Republic to obtain educational degrees that are jointly awarded by Atafom Unversity and international institutions.
I am very proud that ATAFOM University will be a meeting place for the children of this world in the Central African Republic, for university, science, and research education.
On behalf of the Central African Republic, I would like to thank the founder, Mr. Sakir YAVUZ, for choosing the Central African Republic as a location for founding the Atlantic African Oriental Multicultural “ATAFOM University International”
Dear students, lecturers, and parents, I wish all of us good luck and success with ATAFOM UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL.
President of the Central African Republic
Welcome to the ATAFOM University International Website!
The implementation of the vision of Professor Faustin-Archange Touadéra, President of the Republic, Head of State, to think outside the box and transform the Central African Republic to lay the foundations for shared and inclusive prosperity require strong actions to consolidate a more inclusive society, building a more open economy, expansion of the education sector using beneficial technologies and better capacities for the populations.
In this context, the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technological Innovation (MESRSIT) is working to promote the development of human capital through the strengthening of the national system of Higher Education, scientific research and technological innovation, the diversification, modernization and articulation of training programs to the needs of the economy with a view to increasing the Training / Employment match as well as employability through highly qualified university degrees such as bachelor’s and master’s degrees and doctoral studies with doctoral degrees in English from the new university ATAFOM University International.
I am convinced that the Central African Republic is equipped with ATAFOM University International, which has a state-of-the-art university campus, a sophisticated laboratory and a competitive international training program by high-profile, successful internationally known and recognized professors, lecturers and business people, which focus on technological innovation and the knowledge that is required for contemporary jobs is concentrated very quickly to become one of the best poles in the world of scientific and professional training, the production of scientific knowledge and technological innovations.
Therefore, I would like to assure you, dear students from all over the world, that you have made the right choice in opting for ATAFOM University International, even the best choice of your life, because the knowledge and know-how acquired here depends on your competence , Your employability and consequently the quality of your entire life, and I congratulate you on it.
I take this happy opportunity, on behalf of the Central African Republic, to express my sincere thanks and my deep gratitude to the ATAFOM University Founder and President Mr. Sakir Yavuz for the friendly establishment of a private, international, independent, open-ended, unrestricted, apolitical and non-denominational university to repeat in Bangui in the Central African Republic.
Thank you.
Minister in Charge of Higher Education, Research Scientific and Technological Innovation
As I approach the office of Rector of ATAFOM University International, I am reminded of the words of James Madison upon assuming the responsibilities of his own office:
“It is my good fortune, moreover, to have the path in which I am to tread lighted by examples of illustrious services successfully rendered … by those who have marched before me.”
More than two centuries later, I find particular meaning in those words.
I, too, have the good fortune to begin my service with a path already illuminated by one who has marched before me: Prof. Dr. Michael Bauer, Founding and Honorary Rector of ATAFOM University International.
Professor Bauer helped guide ATAFOM from aspiration into academic reality. His leadership through the University’s formative years established the foundation upon which we now have both the privilege and responsibility to build.
To follow in the footsteps of a founding Rector is not simply to retrace the path he traveled. It is to honor what he built by carrying the journey forward.
And so I approach this office not as the beginning of ATAFOM’s story, but as the steward of its next chapter—with humility for the responsibility entrusted to me, gratitude for those who brought us to this moment, and confidence in all those who will help determine where we go from here.
We begin this next chapter at an extraordinary time. Artificial intelligence, technology, global commerce, communication, and the nature of work itself are transforming the world for which our students are preparing.
A university must therefore do more than transmit what is already known. It must prepare students to think when answers are not obvious, to distinguish knowledge from information, to exercise human judgment in an increasingly technological world, and to meet change with confidence, curiosity, discipline, and purpose.
This is where I believe ATAFOM has an exceptional opportunity.
Our guiding principle, Education for Integration, challenges us to connect knowledge with application, education with opportunity, technology with humanity, innovation with responsibility, and people across nations, cultures, disciplines, and generations.
Yet institutions are ultimately built by people, and the future of ATAFOM belongs to all of us.
To our President and institutional leadership, thank you for the vision and commitment that make our work possible. To those entrusted with governance and stewardship, your judgment and experience will help guide our future. To our Deans, Professors, lecturers, researchers, administrators, and staff, your knowledge, dedication, and daily work give life to the mission of this University. And to our partners and friends throughout the world, your relationships extend ATAFOM’s possibilities far beyond any single border.
Above all, to our students: you are not simply recipients of what ATAFOM has built.
You are participants in what ATAFOM is becoming.
Your questions, ambitions, achievements, and ultimately the lives you lead will be among the truest measures of this University’s success.
None of us can know precisely what the years ahead will bring. That uncertainty should not diminish our confidence; it should strengthen our resolve.
We should welcome technology without surrendering human judgment to it. We should pursue innovation without abandoning enduring principles. We should seek growth without sacrificing academic integrity. And as our reach expands, our sense of responsibility must expand with it.
As Rector, I will endeavor to listen before deciding, to value experience while welcoming new ideas, to encourage academic excellence and intellectual independence, and to remember always that leadership is not possession of an institution.
It is stewardship of its possibilities.
The next chapter of ATAFOM University International will not be written by one Rector, one President, one Board, one Faculty, or one generation.
It will be written by all of us.
Let us make it worthy of those who began the journey, meaningful to those who walk with us today, and consequential for those who will follow.
Prof. David Grzan
Rector
ATAFOM University International
Education for Integration
After years of intensive preparations to find concepts, solutions and partners in order to find a sustainable contribution to improving the educational offer in Africa and worldwide, ATAFOM University International has successfully completed the Pilot Academic Year 2021/22 by accepting the first students and thus its doors for the global university world opened.
Currently working is in standard mode for the Preparation and Implementation of the Academic Year New Semester in Academic Year 2026/27.
Thanks to the support of the governments of many African countries, in particular the President of the Central African Republic, His Excellency Faustin-Archanda Touadéra, we have been able to process all organisational, financial and administrative matters so successfully that the first students have completed their studies with the Pilot Academic Year 2021/22 at ATAFOM University International. These experiences of the ATAFOM team are currently being incorporated into the organization of the Academic Year 2026/27.
A team is available for this successful start, consisting of ambitious, experienced and internationally known and recognized teachers and administrative staff to carry out all activities in teaching, from conveying the teaching content and organizing exams to the organizational, technical and commercial activities in everyday life at the ATAFOM University International.
The new Internet platform ATAFOM Online Campus has been designed as a decisive basis for the work of ATAFOM University International and as an information center for all teachers, employees and students and is permanently adapted to the new current requirements in the course of study at the ATAFOM University International.
I wish all students, parents, academic staff and employees at ATAFOM University International a successful and productive time together.
Rector of the ATAFOM University International
“The success of every action begins in the head.”
This motto, which has pioneered my life as an athlete, businessman and founder for decades, has several essential meanings.
Success requires permanent focus, strong motivation and extreme dedication to achieve the goals. At the beginning of this century, I set myself the goal of creating a university that offers integrative education for as large a group of people worldwide as possible, regardless of their origin, skin color, gender and religious denomination. It is assumed that children of this world with different cultural backgrounds and countries of origin as well as languages should have the same right to education.
At ATAFOM University International, “Education for Integration” is to be developed, conveyed and lived. The team of internationally known professional teachers and experienced staff at ATAFOM University International will meet the highest international standards and do everything to meet and exceed all expectations and educational goals of our students when they embark on a Bachelor, Master or postgraduate degree and enroll at ATAFOM University International to learn a language with your own language certification. A digital innovation and knowledge campus of the ATAFOM University International – ATAFOM Online Campus, on which there is space for everyone willing to learn, will make it possible to build educational bridges between all continents.
I am very excited, very proud and very happy that I have made my dream of founding an international university come true.
I wish us all a successful start!
Founder and President of the ATAFOM University International
We are a international University on the African continent and have started the Pilot Academic Year 2021/22. Preparations for the New Semester in Academic Year 2026/27 are currently underway and Applications are now open.
The entire study operation will be conducted in English and 100% online because of the international orientation.
For the student applicants who do not have sufficient knowledge of English, the ATAFOM Language Academy – ALA is offered, as a result of which the students receive the English language level in order to be able to attend the courses successfully, to understand the course content, to pass the exams and also internationally for professional purposes to be succesfull.
The faculties
offer Bachelor’s degree programs in
International lecturers and professors are used for the study operation.
The prerequisite for studying at ATAFOM University is the minimum language level ALA-B2. Therefore, the English online placement test is carried out after applying to study at language level B2. This language test queries the current linguistic competence in the field of English and is used to assess the current and actual language level of the applicant. The duration of this language test is 20 minutes.
A wide range of language courses ensures a secure acquisition of language skills in English at university level. Native speakers are used as language teachers for the ALA’s teaching.
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Submission of the online application: Upload the registration form including all files |
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Examination of the application documents; Confirmation of prenotation with a request to pay the registration fee |
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Confirmation of receipt of payment of the registration fee and sending of the access data for the Level test English by the ATAFOM Language Academy – ALA |
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Sending a) test result with the assignment to the bachelor’s degree study or to the language academy b) the request for payment of the tution fee c) the notification of enrolment with the necessary access data for the ConiaSoft Online Campus |
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Payment of tution fee Beginning of study |
ATAFOM University International has been established by Sakir Yavuz, with a vision of education for integration that offers interested young people an open educational platform.
We look forward to counting you among our new students!
