European Education and Training in Armaments Co-operation

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European Education and Training in Armaments
Co-operation
General Secretariat of the Council, DG E VIII /
ESDC Secretariat, Hans-Bernhard Weisserth

• The potential role of the European Security and
  Defence College

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Key principles and objectives

• promote and enhance the European security culture
• provide training at strategic level
• mixed training audiences
• Alumni network of former course participants
• participation of third states, international
  organisations and others
• develop and run an IDL system
• functioning as a network of national institutes
• supported by a three-tier structure

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ESDC Network Institutes

• EU Institute for Security Studies (EU ISS)
• Baltic Defence College (EE, LV, LT)
• Austria Landesverteidigungsakademie, AT
  Delegation Brussels
• Belgium IRSD/KHID and Egmont Institute
• Czech Republic National Defence University
• Finland National Defence College and Crisis
  Management Centre
• France IHEDN Paris
• Germany Bundesakademie fur Sicherheitspolitik
  and ZIF Berlin
• Greece Diplomatic Academy and Hellenic Defence
  College
• Hungary National Defence University
• Italy ISSMI Rome, CASD Rome
• Lithuania National Defence Academy
• Poland National Defence University
• Portugal Instituto da Defesa Nacional
  Divestudos
• Romania National Defence College
• The Netherlands National Defence College
• Slovenia National Defence Institute
• Spain CESEDEN Madrid
• Sweden National Defence College

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ESDC supporting structure
Can meet in different configurations
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Growing demand and growing variety
So far about 1700 personnel trained !
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New types include the following courses
ESDP/SSR, EU Planning Process, ESDP/Leadership
Seminar, Joint ESDC/CEPOL Seminar
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ESDC the next development step

• separate entity with the necessary legal capacity
• permanent Secretariat staff grow from 3 to 8
• official Head of the ESDC
• modest budget from the EU to pay staff and the
  IDL system
• no financing of training activities
• no ESDC building / staff located within Council
  Secretariat premises
• no own conference facilities

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ESDC with additional responsibilities

• Potential role of the ESDC (Study Dec 2008)
• Training in the field of civilian crisis
  management
• Closing capability gaps training initiatives
  under the EDA in the field of intelligence
• Enhancing the mutual understanding of
  stakeholders engaged in co-operative programmes
  (Study EU ISS)

Not accepted
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ESDC Secretariat - future staff capacities
/expertise -
N Functional Area Staff Tasks / expertise
1 Head of the ESDC 1 overall responsibility for the functioning of the ESDC represent ESDC in all legal acts and obligations oversee the coherence and the quality of the education and training
2 Budget/Administration 1 budget and controlling personnel management
3 IDL System 2 course and content development and management in co-operation with contributors
4 Training Management 3 support Steering Committee and Executive Academic Board programming, planning, conduct and evaluation of the ESDC training activities in co-operation with national institutes (ESDP standard courses) support to the management of training in the civilian field of crisis management
5 Secretarial Support 1 general secretarial support
Total number of staff Total number of staff 8
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What the ESDC could do

• .. in principle, is everything what would stay
  line with the key principles and objectives
• promote and enhance the European security culture
• provide training at strategic level
• mixed training audiences
• Alumni network of former course participants
• participation of third states, international
  organisations and others
• develop and run an IDL system
• functioning as a network of national institutes
• supported by a three-tier structure

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What the ESDC could do

• .. in practical terms, is and remains for the
  time being limited
• position of some Member States vis-à-vis the ESDC
• new envisaged configuration of the ESDC is
  considered to be a deal for the next 4 years
• and will not include the relevant expertise
  necessary to support the management of training
  covering armaments co-operation

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Way ahead possible quick wins

• participation of relevant personnel in standard
  courses of the ESDC
• few course participants already coming from the
  armaments co-operation field
• develop and run IDL AKUs (autonomous knowledge
  units) on armaments co-operation
• work is already in hand on the development of an
  AKU on capability development
• adapt current courses and course curricula to
  include basic aspects of European armaments
  co-operation
• ESDP High Level Course Robert Schuman Module 2
  organised by CASD in close co-operation with EDA
  in late autumn this year is the next chance
• possibility to tailor one of the ESDP orientation
  courses

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Way ahead the sensitive part

• creation of a specific education network of
  existing relevant national institutes
• in principle possible as a specific configuration
  of the Executive Academic Board
• ESDC Secretariat staff resource implications
• subject to ESDC Steering Committee decision
• organisation of specialist courses on armaments
  co-operation
• ESDC Secretariat staff resource implications
• subject to ESDC Steering Committee decision

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Way ahead the sensitive part- a proposal -

• address the Member States in the ESDC Steering
  Committee
• to acknowledge the need for training in the field
  of armaments co-operation
• and to accept a specific role of the ESDC to play
  (Board configuration and Secretariat support)
• to offer Member States potential solutions
  (ideally with no implications on the envisaged
  budget)
• make use of forthcoming meetings of the Steering
  Committee end of July (still tentative) and 2nd
  half of September

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European Education and Training in Armaments
Co-operation
General Secretariat of the Council, DG E VIII /
ESDC Secretariat, Hans-Bernhard Weisserth

• The potential role of the European Security and
  Defence College