Partner universities programme:

The Network on Humanitarian Assistance (NOHA) was launched in 1994 as a contribution to professional training in the field of humanitarian aid. The project was initiated by the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO), the body which finances humanitarian actions worldwide on behalf of the European Union and its member states.

Organised under the auspices of the Socrates-Erasmus programme of postgraduate exchanges in the European Union, the programme is currently supported by the Directorate General for Education and Culture and is taught at the following seven universities:

•   Deusto-Bilbao (Spain)
•   Uppsala (Sweden)
•   Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)
•   University College Dublin (Ireland)
•   Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
•   Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III
•   University of Groningen (the Netherlands)

In addition, the NOHA Network includes a number of oversea partner universities. European students may spend a part of the fourth component (third term) in one of these partner universities:

•   Graduate Diploma Programme in Refugee and Migration Studies, York University (Canada)
•   Humanitarian Affairs Program, Columbia University, New York (USA)
•   Master in Intercultural Mediation, Saint-Joseph University, Beyrouth (Lebanon)
•   Diploma Course on International Law of Armed Conflict, Universidade de Brasilia (Brazil)
•   Graduate School of Peace & Conflict Resolution, Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia)
•   Speciality in Conflict Resolution, Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá (Colombia)
•   Postgraduate Diploma, School of Government, University of Western Cape (South Africa)
•   Master of Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University (Australia)