European Security and Defence College (ESDC)
The European Security and Defence College (ESDC) is a network of educational establishments responsible for providing training to civilian and military personnel in the field of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), promoting a common understanding of that policy and disseminating best practice in this area.
Egmont is a member of the ESDC network and represented in the ESDC Executive Academic Board and in the Working Group for Missions and Operations Training.
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EU Civilian Training Initiative (EUCTI)
The European Union’s Civilian Training Initiative (EUCTI) was a three-year project, funded by the European Union in the scope of Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI.2), instrument contributing to Stability and Peace, Conflict prevention, peacebuilding, and crisis preparedness component. EUCTI aimed to improve the life of people living in conflict affected societies by enhancing the quality of training provided to those individuals joining the crisis management missions – either CCM missions or civilian elements of the integrated missions. Through the designed training activities, the EUCTI enhanced the abilities of the deployed civilian staff in EU CSDP, OSCE, UN, AU and other crisis management missions to work in an efficient, effective and sustainable manner to implement their respective missions’ mandates. As part of the EUCTI project, the Egmont Institute organized in 2023 two trainings one at EUCAP Sahel Mali and one in Benin. More about the EUCTI can be found here: Home – EUCTI
ENTRI
The Egmont Institute has been a member of the ENTRi consortium (Europe’s New Training Initiative for Civilian Crisis Management) since its creation in 2011 and has certified with ENTRi its Basic Core Course on Civilian Crisis Management, the “Belgian Generic Training”, run since 2009 in partnership with the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Police.
Egmont firmly believes in ENTRi’s project fostering quality training and sharing of expertise among European training institutes and for the public at large. This is done through the design and diffusion of learning packages and material that are accessible for free and through the certification process of trainings.
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European Union Police and Civilian Services Training (EUPCST)
Building on the success of the previous European Union Police Services Training I and II (2011 – 2014 and 2015-2018 respectively), the European consortium opened to civilian organisations and the Egmont Institute joined in 2019.
The EUPCST offered training opportunities targeting police and civilian personnel, including third country participants, being deployed to EU civilian CSDP missions, EU stabilisation actions or other international operations. It promoted an international learning context, the harmonization of training approaches and stimulated international linkages and exchange of best practices in police and civilian training beyond the EU, including CSDP contributing countries, CSDP host nations as well as third states and relevant international organisations.