To pool academic resources and cultural traditions in order to accommodate a diversity of individual, academic and employment needs in the field of humanitarian action.
To provide the academic and professional profiles and competencies for high personnel working in the field of international humanitarian action
To train a team of professionals in the field of humanitarian action who are able to share their experiences world-wide and to foster European potential of innovation and social and economic development
To contribute to the quality and visibility of European higher education through the implementation of a well-defined joint masters programme offered by and in seven universities which responds to an academic and professional profile in a common framework of comparable and compatible qualifications which describes qualifications in terms of profile, learning outcomes, competences, workload and level (comparable level of intellectual academic endeavour)
To become a world quality reference education and training system in the field of humanitarian action offering a programme opened to the participation of third-country graduate students and scholars which involves mobility between the institutions of the NOHA Network and leads to the award of Joint Degree Master in Humanitarian Action.