  The determination of the ordering of the neutrino masses (the hierarchy) is
probably a crucial prerequisite to understand the origin of lepton masses and
mixings and to establish their relationship to the analogous properties in the
quark sector. In this talk, we follow an alternative strategy to the usual
neutrino--antineutrino comparison: we exploit the combination of the
neutrino-only data from the NOvA and the T2K experiments by performing these
two off-axis experiments at different distances but at the same $<E >/L$, $<E>$
being the mean neutrino energy and $L$ the baseline. This would require a minor
adjustment to the proposed off-axis angle for one or both of the proposed
experiments.
