The Coordinated Humanitarian Response, Health and Displacement action-research project aims to implement an international master's degree, including European and African universities - HumanResponse Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree. The programme aims to provide a unique multidisciplinary programme in teaching and research about life-saving assistance and displacement in volatile contexts. The Erasmus Mundus project provides 60 scholarships for students, teacher mobility and lectures by Visiting Scholars from various countries.  In addition, it contributes to research with articles on innovative topics. The programme is jointly developed by Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Makerere University (MU), University of Cape Verde (UniCV), University of Santiago (US), University of Athens (UAthens) and University of Rovuma (URovuma). The first semester is spent in Lisbon, Portugal, the second semester in Trondheim, Norway, and the third semester in Kampala, Uganda, before the students move to one of the seven partner institutions to work on their master’s thesis. In the fourth-semester students may collect dissertation data in humanitarian contexts with 23 institutions (associated partners) in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America or Asia. The curriculum is taught by both academics and practitioners, emphasizing problem-based learning and knowledge application opportunities in summer schools and internships.   HumanResponse tackles both research and teaching to address the pressing need for professionalisation of humanitarian workers through: fostering South-North collaboration and multi-stakeholder cooperation, strengthening localized leadership, and articulating theory and practice to navigate organizational complexity in humanitarian action.

HumAct é um projeto de 3 anos financiado pelo Programa Erasmus+ Capacity Building para o Ensino Superior e é coordenado pelo ISCTE –Instituto Universitário de Lisboa., tendo como parceiros: a Universidade Nacional e Kapodistriana de Atenas, Universidade de Cabo Verde e a Universidade de Santiago, de Cabo Verde e a Universidade Pedagógica, Universidade de Pungué e Universidade de Rovuma, de Moçambique. O principal objetivo do projeto é aumentar a capacidade das instituições de ensino superior na área da Ação Humanitária (AH) em relação a mudanças climáticas e deslocamentos nos países parceiros, especificamente em Cabo Verde e Moçambique, em colaboração com instituições dos países do programa, como Grécia e Portugal.  Os objetivos específicos são:   • Aumentar a resposta do ensino superior no que diz respeito a conteúdos relevantes pra a AH  • Promover a investigação de docentes e alunos relativamente a AH  • Desenvolver as estratégias pedagógicas dos docentes • Fortalecer o envolvimento das comunidades