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What is NOHA

• NOHA is an international association of Universities to enhance professionalism in the Humanitarian sector, by promoting Humanitarian values and providing certificated high level courses (Erasmus Mundus Master in Humanitarian Action), as well as refreshment courses and promoting research and policy papers on key humanitarian issues.

• Since it was created in 1993, more than 2.000 graduates have done the Master on Humanitarian Action. NOHA counts on more than 150 professors, teachers and lecturers.

• NOHA counts on the cooperation and support of the EU through DG Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection - ECHO and DG for Education and Culture.

NOHA vision and mission

• NOHA believes that Humanitarian action must be an effective and ethical expression of Human solidarity. This should be achieved by joining efforts through a professional and ethical management of humanitarian action by policy makers, managers and humanitarian workers of the global Humanitarian system.

• In this regard NOHA's mission is to increase the effectiveness and quality of humanitarian action through the provision of excellence and internationally recognised education, research and training. While promoting intellectual debate and thinking on humanitarism with a solid base on humanitarian, professional and human values.

• NOHA is also committed to contribute to greater awareness of humanitarian issues among the broader public and among policy makers.

Organization

• NOHA is currently composed by 9 European Universities.

• NOHA operates in an egalitarian decentralized system enabling each university to develop their programmes and activities within their own context and reality.

• NOHA works under a cooperation spirit, trying to link and cooperate with other humanitarian initiatives and organizations with whom NOHA share values and objectives.

• NOHA is managed by a Board of Directors composed by a representative of each University. And it is supported by a Secretariat. Different ad-hoc committes involving the NOHA Faculty and experts compose the functional organization of NOHA.