The Kick-off meeting for the project Innovation In Humanitarian Response- ImovHumRe, led by Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, took place on February 26th.

The InovHumRe project is financed by Erasmus + Program and aims to improve the quality and effectiveness of HA by improving Humanitarian Aid students’ and professionals’ Education through the implementation, in the social sciences second cycle courses, of a humanitarian aid evaluation curricular unit.

Such curricular unit will be based on innovative methodological approaches - participatory evaluation in HA -, and will rely on the development of new learning tools that incorporate the contributions of partner HEIs and NGOs directly involved in humanitarian response, thus addressing the skills gaps.

The partnership includes HEIs and NGOs directly involved in humanitarian response, from Portugal, Spain and Turkey that will cooperate to develop the curricular unit and the learning tools, and Colombian and Brazilian HEI’s that have developed innovative know how in the field and have specific expertise in evaluation methodologies and participatory processes, thus bringing a useful new perspective to the European countries.

Besides Iscte, the partners of the project are Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Brazil), Universidade Icesi (Colombia), the organizations Sened Dernegi and Sosyal Hizmet Uzmanları Derneği Ankara Şubesi and Hacettepe University (Turkey), Fundación Magtel and Universidade Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain) and Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr (Portugal).