At the heart of the SIMANDOU 2040 program, supported by the Head of State, H.E Mamady DOUMBOUYA, the Simandou Academy is a strategic initiative aimed at providing Guinea with the human skills necessary for its economic transformation. Its ambition is to train a national elite in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, renewable energies and management professions. Because having the largest unexploited iron deposit in the world (8 billion tonnes) is not enough if human resources are lacking.

The academy is based on 3 pillars, namely promoting educational excellence through reference establishments such as the Prytanée Militaire de Guinée, building modern infrastructure to international standards, and establishing partnerships with the best universities in the world. In February 2026, the National External Scholarship Service (SNABE) signed an agreement with the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) of Morocco, offering Guinean students courses ranging from Bachelor's to Doctorate. This South-South partnership illustrates concrete African cooperation, far from traditional dependencies on the North.

For Africa, the Guinean model could serve as a model. Backing an ambitious education policy with a USD 200 billion industrial development program, capable of creating 60,000 direct jobs, demonstrates that it is possible to capture the added value of natural resources by first investing in human capital.