SQF-MILOF
Sectoral Qualification Framework for the Military Officer Profession
From 2009 to 2014, in the context of the European initiative for the exchange of young officers inspired by Erasmus, the ESDC developed the first stage of the SQF-MILOF, which occurs at the beginning of the military officer’s career. However, a comprehensive framework should capture all critical stages of the military officer career, at its junior and senior levels. The full SQF-MILOF will provide Member States with a cross-referencing tool for military qualifications so that qualifications awarded in one Member State can be compared with similar qualifications awarded in another Member State. The SQF-MILOF will be fully compliant with the EQF for lifelong learning. It will provide a suitable guidance on what officer should know and be able to do, under a certain degree of responsibility and autonomy, in order to match a generic profile for a European officer.
SQF.MILOF configuration
Chair:
Col. Gianluca CARRIERO
He is the Joint Education Coordinator Officer at Center for Defence Higher Studies in Rome – Italy.
He joined the Italian Army in 1989 attending the 171st Course at the Military Academy in Modena, he continued the studies at Scuola di Applicazione in Turin with the rank of 1st Lieutenant. Promoted to Lieutenant of Bersaglieri specialty, was assigned to the operative units where during his career he served as Commander at every level from Platoon up to Regiment in south, center and north of the Italian peninsula. He was appointed also to General Staff of the Army as Staff Officer in the Officers’ Posting Department, as Staff Officer to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Italian Defence and as chief of the Operations, Plan and Training Office of the Bersaglieri Brigade “Garibaldi”. He attended the Army Staff College in Turin in 2002 and from 2007 to 2009 the Joint General Staff Course of the German Armed Forces at Fuehrungs Akademie der Bundeswehr in Hamburg.
He was deployed in Bosnia – Herzegovina (1996), Albania (1997), FYROM (1999), Kosovo (1999 – 2000 – 2012), Lebanon (2006 – 2007) and Afghanistan (2014 – 2015), as Commander at every level, as staff officer and as branch chief. He achieved a master degree in Political Sciences at University of Turin and in Diplomatic Sciences at University of Trieste and also a post university master degree in Strategic Sciences at University of Turin.
Currently is the Italian delegate to the ESDC Steering Committee and Executive Academic Board, to the EU Military Training Group and he is also committed as Academic Coordinator of the NATO Defence Education Enhancement Programme for Tunisia.
Configuration support:
Alin Bodescu
He is a Romanian national expert with a military background. His responsibilities cover among others the newly established Advanced Modular Training Course plus the Sectoral Qualification Framework (SQF).