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Members of the NOHA facultyProfessors of other Belgian universitiesECHOThe ICRC and major INGOsOCHA

AdmissionCV and letter of motivation

Registration

Admission is granted on the basis of the past education(Master degree or equivalent) and/or experience in the field.Candidates should send back a CV and a letter of motivationbefore October 1st, 2015.

CERTIFICATIONA certificate will be delivered by NOHA

Lecturers

FeesThe participation fees amount to 300 euros/person. Dailylunch and working material are included. Free-of-chargepositions are available for ECHO staff members.

I will attend the NOHA Fall School

I pay 300 euros after my application is selected.Bank account : Axa n° 7512.0714.3742IBAN: BE77 7512.0714.3742(with Fall School 2015 + name)

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Please send the requested information, a CV and a letter of motivationbefore October 1st, 2015 :

by email : catherine.gourbin@uclouvain.be

or back to :

Prof. Catherine GourbinNOHA / Université catholique de LouvainLSSH/IACS/DEMOCollège Jacques LeclercqPlace Montesquieu 1, bte L2.08.031348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium

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Éditeur responsable : NOHA-UCL • Crédits photos : Galia Glume et Max D. Gyselinck

NOHA2015 Fall School in Humanitarian Action (HA)Humanitarian Action today has to take into account political,cultural, legal and health dimensions. For the seventh time theNOHA (Network on Humanitarian Action) Fall School will beconducted by university staff and field actors in order to provideprofessionals with a global approach and specific tools.

ObjectiveThe Fall School aims at training professionals dealing withprojects in HA in order to give them a critical overview of HAin a multidisciplinary perspective and the relevant informationfor evaluation of projects. New challenges in HA will also beexamined.

Target audienceCivil servants, staff from local, international and civil societyorganizations, and more generally those who are involved in HAand feel the need to upgrade their basic knowledge and skills.

Organizing CommitteeCatholic University of Louvain (UCL)This seventh NOHAFall School is run by the European NetworkonHumanitarianAction (NOHA) and the day-to-daymanagementis supervised by Prof. Catherine Gourbin, national NOHAdirector, andVincent Eiffling, coordinator at the Catholic Uni-versity of Louvain (UCL) in Belgium.

MarketingThe programme will be marketed among relevant stakeholdersvia the NOHAdirectors, ECHO, Ministries of ForeignAffairs,INGOs, international Federations of NGOs.

1) Humanitarian action

- History and basic principles- Main actors2) Humanitarian action-related disciplines

- International Relations, geopolitics of conflictsand foreign policy- International humanitarian law- Health in emergency situations- Anthropology and HA- Management and logistics of HA3) Contemporary issues

- Peacekeeping and integrated operations- Protection- Disaster preparedness- Resilience4) Funding

Content

NOHA is an InternationalAssociation of Universities thataims to enhance professionalism in the Humanitarian sectorby promoting humanitarian values through higher educationaccredited courses, and by fostering a humanitarian researchethos that encourages innovation in humanitarian policy andpractice. NOHA full members are Aix-Marseille Univer-sité, Universidad de Deusto, Ruhr-Universität Bochum,University College Dublin, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen,Université catholique de Louvain, Uppsala Universitet,Warsaw University, Vilnius University, University ofCopenhagen, University of Malta, and University ofPavia. Since it was created in 1993, more than 3,000 graduateshave followed the Joint Master in International HumanitarianAction. NOHAcounts on the cooperation and support of theEU through the DG Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection(ECHO) and the DG for Education and Culture. The initiativewas a response to a growing need for higher educationalqualifications specifically suited to addressing complexhumanitarian emergencies. In 2005, NOHAwas awarded bythe European Commission Erasmus Mundus PartnershipsProgramme in order to establish and develop a frameworkfor cooperation and student and scholar mobility betweenNOHAand 8 partner universities worldwide. More than twodecades of experience has proved the NOHA commitmentand capacity to educate and train highly committed, inter-disciplinary persons who can act at all levels of humanitarianrelief operations and who can function in a variety of waysto enhance the delivery of humanitarian assistance andsustainable actions.

NOHAwww.nohanet.org

DURATION AND TIME PERIOD19-20-21-22-23 October 2015

LANGUAGE OF TRAINING : English

VENUE : Club- Fondation Universitaire Stichtingrue d’Egmontstraat 11, B-1000 Brussels