The act of creation, the statutes and the presidential decree definitively approving the UEA, recognize to him the following missions:
- teaching, research and popular science;
- Moral education in accordance with Christian ethics of a useful intellectual elite, able to cope with the edification and development of the church and society.
Its global vision is to promote competent human resources in the African Great Lakes region, initiated to the principles of moral and professional integrity adapted to the immediate environment.
Three key objectives guide the EBU Program of Action, namely:
- Providing society and Protestant churches in Africa with high level cadres of general and specialized training in the various sectors, endowed with intellectual, moral and spiritual qualities;
- Organize research in all areas of the branches taught in order to discover methods capable of contributing to the improvement of the quality of work and finding solutions to the real problems of society;
- Popularize the results of research through scientific publications.