Intensive Programme

Ever NOHA student starts off their NOHA journey with the 5-day Intensive Programme, or IP, at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. The course brings together approximately 150 students, lecturers, and researchers as well as a significant number of practioners, international experts, policy makers, and other guest speakers from NGOs and IGOs.
    
The objective of the IP is to familiarise the new students with a wide range of current topics and dilemmas in the humanitarian sector through lectures, panel discussions, and workshops from expert practitioners and academia. It combines activities that are vital for the multicultural and interdisciplinary training of the future humanitarian action professional and combines theory (through lectures) and practice (through workshops) based on the Network's teaching-learning policy.

The IP is a unique forum where participants from different parts of the world and with different backgrounds, perspectives and expectations share knowledge and experiences on current issues and problems in the area of humanitarian action.

The intensive programme introduces students to:
•          The academic and professional profile expected of the Joint European Master's in International Humanitarian Action;
•          Key principles and concepts underlying humanitarian action;
•          Main actors in the field of humanitarian relief, their policies and strategies; and
•          Challenges facing humanitarian actors in coordinating their activities.

In conformity with the learning outcomes set out by the NOHA network, students should achieve the following learning outcomes by the end of this module:
•           Has demonstrated a basic understanding of the concept of humanitarian action and its relation to some adjacent concepts.
•           Has shown familiarity with some of the key contemporary humanitarian issues and challenges.
•           Has demonstrated a basic knowledge of the main actors working in the field of humanitarian action.
•           Understands the NOHA network, its main educational and policy advocacy activities, and its key partners.
•           Has developed a basic ability to work in a multicultural setting.
•           Has shown appreciation for differences in culture and background.