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.

A intensidade e prolongamento das crises humanitárias e a diferença entre recursos necessários e alocados, conduziram à reforma humanitária de 2016 e aos compromissos do Triplo Nexus e da localização. Com aqueles, sugere-se, respetivamente, a ligação entre humanitarismo- desenvolvimento-construção de paz, e posiciona-se os atores locais num papel de maior protagonismo ao longo do triplo Nexus. O maior poder de agência dos atores locais, desencadeia ações que interferem com a cooperação internacional e, portanto, as políticas externas dos países doadores, mas também com o poder das agências e ONG´s que protagonizam a ajuda humanitária. A exequibilidade da reforma tem sido lenta e esta investigação, pretende contribuir para a identificação e reflexão sobre as motivações, limitações e ameaças à reforma Humanitária. O estudo de caso sobre a crise humanitária de Cabo Delgado pretende revelar estas tensões, utilizando uma metodologia mista abordando as dimensões política, financeira e operacional. Orientação: Raquel Freitas (CIES-iscte) e Clara Carvalho (CEI-Iscte)