--- title: "The Project" date: 2017-12-15T11:13:32+01:00 draft: false weight: 10 --- WAeUP is a Nigerian-German cooperation initially founded in 2005 by Broadband Technologies (Lagos, Nigeria), Netplux (Accra, Ghana), Scientific African e.V. (Luechow, Germany) and freelance programmers from Germany with a focus on the development of Open Source web solutions. The flagship of the West African eUniversity Project is [Kofa](/#kofa), a multifunctional Student Management System and a Web Portal to provide transparent and comprehensive information about study progress. Kofa, which means 'entrance' or 'portal' in Hausa language, controls all kinds of application and student registration processes at large schools and universities in Nigeria, Africa and all over the world.