University of Deusto celebrates 30 years of the NOHA Master Programme

To celebrate this date, a seminar was organized with three different round tables whose topics were discussed and agreed by the participants and alumni. The round table members were composed by NOHA alumni as well as lecturers of the master programme and combined a face to face and online format. Javier Arellano, the vice rector of International Relations and Research as well as Ane Ferrán, the dean of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences attended the event.

The event was introduced by Cristina Churruca, former NOHA director of the University of Deusto and the Joint NOHA programme coordinator on behalf of the current director Joana Abrisketa Uriarte. Julia Gonzalez Ferrera, the former NOHA secretary and former vice rector of International Relations at the University of Deusto and Horst Firscher, former NOHA director at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum and former president of the NOHA association gave the opening speech. Both speakers insisted on the importance of the programme as a milestone in the European high education and its relevance for the training of professionals in the field of humanitarian action in a current global situation where the crisis and conflicts are growing. Julia González also highlighted and applauded the commitment of the University of Deusto with the NOHA programme since its beginning.