NOEMA is the largest millimeter/submillimeter-wave interferometer project of the northern hemisphere. With twelve 15-meter antennas, 2SB receivers with 8 GHz IF per sideband and polarization, and baselines up to 1.7 kilometers, NOEMA will ultimately provide sensitivities close to ALMA, the world’s largest millimeter/submillimeter-wave interferometer, and offer high contrast imaging capabilities down to a spatial resolution of 0.1″. NOEMA will address key astronomical questions ranging from the formation of complex organic molecules in space and the origin of life on Earth to the formation and evolution of galaxies in the universe, and as part of the EHT collaboration, will help researchers study the event-horizon-scale structure of supermassive BHs.