List of CAS courses available:   Within the CAS programmes, it offers an 8-month distance-learning programme "Designing Strategies and Projects in Humanitarian Action", which comprises 15 ECTS. The course enhances the capacity of individual and institutional humanitarian actors to devise and implement effective humanitarian responses:  "Learn as you work, work as you learn." Specifically adapted to the needs of working humanitarian professionals, this course allows participants to study and learn from their own context. During the course students develop an action plan, which they can directly implement in their work situation. The programme is fairly autonomous where students develop their own learning objectives based on current challenges. At the end of the programme, participants develop relevant competencies to design and adapt humanitarian strategies and projects according to the specifics of each context. The course involves e-learning, a residential session in Kampala (Uganda) and individual coaching. It developed the Humanitarian Distance Learning programme to increase access to training particularly for national staff as well as to allow students to study from their own context. Specific themes are proposed as 1-week Thematic Short Courses (TSC). Offering topics that matter (e.g. nutrition, sexual violence, forced migration, negotiation) the courses attract new audiences and eventually, encourage participants to enrol in other trainings. List of TSC courses available:   The Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) "Humanitarian communication: addressing key challenges" focuses on the challenges of communication in humanitarian settings and the means of addressing these. This 5-week online course is repeated throughout the academic year. Staff conduct research on a range of themes linked to humanitarian action including health, law, protracted crises and the political economy of humanitarian crises. The Humanitarian Encyclopedia is a flagship project from CERAH to explore the different ways key humanitarian concepts are understood across space, time and disciplines . This new project offers a conceptual framework for humanitarian action, and providing a dynamic platform for national and international practitioners, community leaders, policy makers and academics to reflect on humanitarian concepts and practice for the 21st century.