Annual European Association of Peace Operations Training Centres (EAPTC) 2021

Every year, members of the European Association of Peace Operations Training Centres (EAPTC) come to a conference to exchange on good practices, discuss old and novel approaches and strengthen European and international partnerships in training for crisis management. The main ideas of the conference are to: eXplore – new ideas from trainers, experts, and leaders
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Training “sur mesure” – ESDC provides a tailor-made in-mission-training on “Monitoring and Advising in EU Civilian Crisis Management” to EULEX Kosovo

Upon special request by EULEX Kosovo, the German Federal Police and the ESDC jointly delivered a tailor made in-mission-training on “Monitoring and Advising in EU Civilian Crisis Management” from 9th to 13th September 2019 in Pristina. This in mission training has been delivered within the ESDC network to EUAM Ukraine in 2018 and to EUPOL
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The Head of ESDC highlighting the importance of  EU-UN cooperation in the field of Mission and Operation training, during the EU-UN-Regional Organisations cooperation seminar, on May 23, 2019

On May 23, 2019, the Head of the ESDC, Mr Dirk Dubois delivered a speech during the EU-UN-Regional Organisations Cooperation seminar, highlighting the importance of  EU-UN cooperation in the field of Mission and Operation training. The event took place in the Trustsheep Council room of the UN. Mr Dubois explained that EU and UN Missions
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Head of ESDC presenting at the GAP Conference

On January 10th & 11th, Trinity College in Dublin hosted the GAP (Gaming for Peace) Conference. GAP is an EU H2020 funded project which is developing a curriculum of soft skills derived from interviews with experienced military, police and civilian peacekeeping personnel, and the state of the art in peacekeeping relevant soft skills and serious
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‘Improving Performance in CSDP Missions’. The case of the GAP project

As the first activity of the year Trinity College Dublin and Laurea University of Applied Sciences organised the course ‘Improving Performance in CSDP Missions’, under the auspices of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) and held in Dublin on 7-9 January 2019. Professor Anne Holohan from Trinity College Dublin and principal scientist Petteri Taitto from
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