Strategic partnership for a secure and digital Europe – webinar and publication launch
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Second Face-to-Face Partner Meeting for EUCTI Consortium in Brussels
Between 9 and 11 November the EUCTI Secretariat, located at the Centre for European Perspective (CEP), traveled to Brussels for the second face-to-face partner meeting this year. They met with the representatives of EUCTI Consortium partners and with representatives of EU institutions. The in-person aspect of the meeting again proved to stir fruitful discussions on past and future (training) activities.
Alongside CEP, the representatives of the Austrian Centre for Peace (ACP), the Clingendael Institute, CMC Finland, Egmont Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), and Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF Berlin) attended the meeting. This time the Consortium was joined also by representatives of different EU institutions and services – European External Action Service (EEAS), Security and Defence Policy, the Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CPCC), and European Commission, Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI).
The meeting, organised on the premises of the Permanent Representation of Slovenia to the EU, was opened by Mr. Markko Kallonen, EUCTI project coordinator. After the presentations of recent EU foreign policy developments, the floor was opened to the project partners. They discussed past and future training activities, received updates from working groups, discussed other visibility activities, and made an activity plan for 2023.
CEP is looking forward to continued fruitful cooperation within the Consortium in implementing need-based training activities!
EUCTI in a Nutshell
The European Union Civilian Training Initiative (EUCTI) is a three-year-long EU-co-funded project that commenced its activities in January 2021. Its main objective is to contribute to the enhanced position of the EU as a peace actor. Ultimately, EUCTI aims to improve the life of people living in conflict-affected societies by developing and delivering need-based training to professionals working in international organisations active in the field of civilian crisis management.
Within the scope of the project, up to 27 training activities will be designed specifically for the mission personnel. The offered training, which is developed in coordination with the stakeholders, will be carried out free of charge in a flexible manner – either in a residential, online, or hybrid format. Several other project activities are foreseen, mainly related to the development of a new technology-enabled learning approach to the training, activities of two working groups on evaluation and standardization, as well as support for 3rd country training institutions. EUCTI consortium draws on the legacy of ENTRi project. The EUCTI consortium consists of eight renowned partners holding solid experience in developing and delivering civilian crisis management training.
Currently, there are 11 civilian and 7 military missions operating under the EU flag.
INVITATION: National Participation Day Slovenia
EUSDR Priority Area 10 ˝Institutional Capacity and Cooperation˝ together with the the Foster Europe Foundation, in Austria, and the Danube Civil Society Forum invite you to the second National Participation Day – Slovenia.
Civil Society, Academia, local authorities active in the realms of environment, participation, health, social care, social innovation, good governance, transparency, open data, tourism, culture, river and water management, transport energy, labour market and migration, education, youth, and other issues in Slovenia or in a trans-national cooperation or with a connection to the Adriatic -Ionian, Western Balkan, Alpine or Danube Region are welcome.
The event will take place on Thursday, 17th of November from 8:30 – 14:00 in Ljubljana (CITY Hotel, Dalmatinova ulica 15)
What is a National Participation Day?
A National Participation Day, NPD, is a regular (annual) meeting open to all interested active or potential stakeholders of the Danube Strategy in Slovenia. The NPDs specifically address civil society organisations and their networks, local actors from municipality level, academia, public authorities on the local and regional level, national institutions active in the EUSDR and EUSDR Priority Coordinators (PACs) based in the country, as well as the National Coordinator (NC). The NPDs are open to interested stakeholders from abroad, such as representatives from PACs, academia, umbrella organisations (CODCR, DCSF), and civil society. The NPD is an important link:
- between the national public actors (ministries, national agencies, NC, PACs, etc.) and the interested stakeholders active in the country,
- that gives stakeholders the possibility to meet and exchange information in view of possible cooperation on a macro-regional level,
- that gives stakeholders the possibility to inform themselves about ongoing projects, calls or other possible financing programs or instruments in the EUSDR between the supra-national activities of the EUSDR, at the Annual Fora and the annual Danube Participation Days.
Aims of a NPD
The NPD is a forum for stakeholders to report on their work concerning the Danube Strategy, experience, perspective, and planning on both state and non-state levels for mutual information and opinion building on a national level. Therefore, the respective national situation will be the priority in the thematic programming.
The NPD is open to stakeholders active in the realms of environment, participation, health, social care, social innovation, good governance, transparency, open data, tourism, culture, river and water management, transport energy, labour market and migration, education, and youth, nationally or in a trans-national cooperation.
The NPD creates with its state-actor – non-state-actor dialogue and the mutual information of either side a platform to build trust, share information and contribute to an informed and active EUSDR public in the country. This contributes to a capacity building of multi-sectoral and multi-level, trans-regional, trans-national cooperation on the local, regional, and national levels.
We will have an open dialogue and exchange on the Slovenian Presidency in the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, and the role of Slovenia in EU macroregional strategies in general.
Registration is open:
on the email [email protected]
And the online survey https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdeqMQoDybXEfTlmc54FIg-bmBPwYrVIdp1_W5ySC9og9DpfQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
For further questions please contact: [email protected]
Insight on military practice developments and international humanitarian law successfully presented at POTC training
Klikni tukaj za branje prispevka v slovenskem jeziku.
The past week, 21 participants attended the International Humanitarian Law & Military Practice Developments Training for Military Personnel where we delved into what is currently going in the international arena, the defence challenges ahead and took a look at Slovenia’s space outlook.
The training also took us to the Noordung Center in Vitanje where we discovered Slovenia’s defence capabilities connected to space. The training also included topics such as targetting according to international law, disruptive military technologies, and neurocognitive science in military and intelligence operations. No stone was left unturned and the participants received an extensive overview of current practices and future challenges.
This training would not have been possible without the cooperation of the Ministry of Defence.
Announcement: International Humanitarian Law & Military Practice Developments Training for Military Personnel
On Monday, the 7th of November, 25 trainees will join us at Jable Castle for the two-day International Humanitarian Law & Military Practice Developments Training for Military Personnel.
Photo by unsplash.com/@nasa
Klikni tukaj za branje prispevka v slovenskem jeziku. 
The two-day training will cover topics such as international humanitarian law, future disruptive technologies in the military field, neurocognitive science in military and intelligence operations, practical application of IHL, Slovenia’s defence capabilities connected to space and how digital technologies shape wars and geopolitical dynamics.
The training will also include a visit to the Noordung Center in Vitanje where we’ll take a closer look at Slovenia’s defence capabilities connected to space.
Several established lecturers will join us live or via teleconference, including:
- prof. dr. Vasilka Sancin, University of Ljubljana;
- dr. Simona Soare, European Union Institute for Security Studies;
- dr. James Giordano, Institute for Biodefense Research;
- Lt. Col. Maximilian Katz, NATO School Oberammergau;
- Breda Bunič, Ministry of Defence;
- and dr. Julian Ringhof, European Council on Foreign Relations.
The aim of the training is to go over current and future challenges of everyone working in the field of human rights and to take a closer look at military practice developments that are influencing events of today and tomorrow.
Modul III of the EUSAIR Communication Academy concludes in Bled
Kliknite tu za branje novice v slovenščini.
We cannot not communicate, and pictures can tell us more than a thousand words. Two very important sentences that participants of the EUSAIR Communication Academy heard over and over again and started to understand at the Modul III of the EUSAIR Communication Academy.
Government communicators and key implementors, participants of the Academy, learned more about putting theoretical communication knowledge into practice. With Modul III, the last module, EUSAIR Communication Academy officially concluded. It was organised by the Centre for European Perspective in cooperation with EUSAIR Facility Point Lead Partner in Bled, Slovenia, from 26 to 28 October 2022.
EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR) is a macro-regional strategy striving to find solutions for common challenges in the common sea basins and its hinterlands. The Strategy joins 10 countries EU Member states and non-EU Member states working together as equal partners to further integrate Western Balkan countries. The countries aim to create synergies and foster coordination among all territories in the Adriatic-Ionian Region in the four thematic pillars: sustainable tourism, environmental quality, connecting the region, and blue growth. To do that, cooperation and effective communication are needed. That is the reason EUSAIR Communication Academy was created.
At the final modul, 26 participants from 9 countries joined us (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, North Macedonia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia).
Academy started by conquering the fundamentals of communication, digital campaign developments, and trends of digital communication. On the first day, they evaluated the campaigns young participants created in the first two days. This gave them inspiration for their own projects they had to create on their last day. Before that, they acquired mobile videography and photography skills, public speaking and graphic design. On the last day, participants engaged in a simulation exercise and competed to find the best and the most creative solution to the problem addressed in the simulation. They had to include all knowledge and skills acquired in the three days of the Academy.
They also had some time for networking and fun social activities. They visited Ljubljana, learned about Slovene culture and sports, and had some time to explore Bled.
