Master Degree
Contacts
School of Sociology and Public Policy
Secretariat
Building 1, Room 1E03
secretariado.espp @iscte-iul.pt
(+351) 210 464 015
9:30 - 18:00

Tuition fee EU nationals (2025/2026)

1.stYear 8000.00 €
2.thYear 8000.00 €

Tuition fee non-EU nationals (2025/2026)

1.ndYear 8000.00 €
2.rdYear 8000.00 €
Lectured in English
Teaching Type In person

The programme, conducted in English, offers opportunities to learn relevant languages for humanitarian response. Staff mobility enables and enhances curriculum internationalization and strengthens the consortium’s global South-North humanitarian action network.

Structure

Semester 1, in Iscte (Portugal), provides a global approach to humanitarian action.

In Semester 2, hosted at NTNU (Norway), students delve into a specialisation in global health, innovation and entrepreneurship, humanitarian design and advanced research methodology.

Summer Schools are held between the semester 2 and 3. This two-week ECTS-bearing module provides students with contact with institutions (APs) that implement life-saving interventions in countries affected by humanitarian crises, namely Cape Verde (intake 1 – June 2026), Greece (intake 2 – June 2027), Uganda (intake 3 – June 2028) and Mozambique (intake 4 – June 2029).

Semester 3, at Makerere (Uganda) has an internship on social support for HA to apply knowledge, along with development studies and tools to deal with high volatile contexts due to war-induced conflicts or climate disasters.

In Semester 4, the student intake is split into universities and APs from five continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America to develop the research and finish the dissertation.

Over the two years, students are given the opportunity to learn a language in different semesters: Portuguese in the 1st semester, Kiswahili in the 3rd semester and Spanish or Arabic in the 4th semester.


Programme Structure for 2025/2026

1st Year
Management in Humanitarian Action
6.0 ECTS
Concepts, Fundaments and Challenges in Humanitarian Action
6.0 ECTS
Innovation in Global Health 
7.0 ECTS
Public Health in Humanitarian Action
6.0 ECTS
Humanitarian Design and Technology
7.0 ECTS
Research Design
6.0 ECTS
Advancing Perspectives in Public Health
7.0 ECTS
Environmental Risk and Societal Resilience
6.0 ECTS
Participatory Evaluation in Humanitarian Action
6.0 ECTS
Project Management in Humanitarian Action
6.0 ECTS
Statistical and Epidemiological Methods
7.0 ECTS
Qualitative Research Methods
7.0 ECTS
2nd Year
Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources 
6.0 ECTS
Conflict, Security and Development 
6.0 ECTS
Summer School: Humanitarian Response Intervention and Methodology
6.0 ECTS
Fieldwork/Internship 
6.0 ECTS
Advanced Counselling in Social Work 
6.0 ECTS
Dissertation in Coordinated Humanitarian Response
30.0 ECTS
Contacts
School of Sociology and Public Policy
Secretariat
Building 1, Room 1E03
secretariado.espp @iscte-iul.pt
(+351) 210 464 015
9:30 - 18:00
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