27. 11. 2019 | LET4CAP, PR
Within the framework of the Internal Security Fund of the European Union, the Italian Carabinieri are leading a training initiative called “Law Enforcement Training for Capacity Building project” – LET4CAP”. Members of the consortium are also the Centre for European Perspective (CEP), founded by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, the Polish police force “Policja” and the in-house agency of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance “Studiare Sviluppo”.
We are now accepting applications for a ToT course that will be held in Ljubljana (Slovenia) from 17 to 18 December 2019, hosted by the Centre for European Perspective (CEP). The invitation letter and the registration form can be downloaded below.
Applications can be sent to the following email address: [email protected], [email protected] and copies to [email protected].
Please mention “Application LET4CAP ToT training” in the email subject.
Deadline for applications is 8th December 2019.
The Consortium will select up to 15 participants, according to the criteria mentioned in the invitation letter. You are encouraged to apply as soon as possible!
Please refer to the documents below for all additional information.
Registration_form_LET4CAO-ToT-training Dec 2019
ToT Course Programme LET4CAP Dec 2019
Invitation letter_ToT Dec 2019
26. 11. 2019 | LET4CAP, PR, Security
The final event of the Project LET4CAP – Law Enforcement Training For Capacity Building will be held on 5th December 2019 in Brussels, at the NH BLOOM hotel, from 09:00 to 13:00 hrs.
The meeting is open to all relevant interested institutions involved in activities related to law enforcement capacity building in third countries, in mentoring and advising host country counterparts in processes of reform and rebuilding institutions.
LET4CAP is a project funded by DG HOME (Migration and Internal Affairs) of the European Commission (HOME/2015/ISFP/AG/LETX/8753) entrusted to a consortium led by CoESPU – Centre of Excellence for Stability Police Units of the Arma dei Carabinieri, based in Vicenza, in partnership with Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa (SSSA), Studiare Sviluppo (in-house agency of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance), CEP – Centre for European Perspective, a think-tank based in Menges, Slovenia, and the Polish National Police (Policja).
The main objective of the project is to contribute to the development and harmonization of a training package for police forces engaged in training activities abroad, given the need to increase national capacities in the area of transfer of sector-specific expertise and to promote uniform law enforcement in third countries according to a common European approach.
The primary beneficiaries of the project are represented by the members of EU Law Enforcement Agencies engaged in third countries to carry out training tasks in a bilateral and multilateral contexts, but also by those public officials involved in institution-building activities abroad in the law enforcement sector.
Within the project, which started in November 2016 and is nearing completion, the following results were achieved:
- 5 training courses in three different countries (Italy, Poland and Slovenia), for about 125 trainees from EU countries, candidate countries and countries linked by partnership agreements;
- Compendium of policy guidance, standards, good practices and lessons learned
- Inventory of existing training curricula and course
- Syllabus for a Law enforcement capacity building training course
- Virtual learning platform
- Downloadable country booklets
- Face-to-face training courses
- Finalised training curriculum and related materials (based on course evaluation reports)
- Distance learning training course
Further information is available on the LET4CAP project’s website.
Project funded by the Internal Security Fund of the European Union (HOME/2015/ISFP/AG/LETX/8753)
12. 11. 2019 | Decentralisation, Economic development, local self-government, PR, Slovenian Development Assistance, U-LEAD: with Europe
The weather in Slovenia might not be the best these days, but our disposition sure is sunny, as Centre for European Perspective is again hosting International Study Visit within the U-LEAD programme. The event began on Tuesday, 12th of November and will continue throughout the week.
The topic of the visit is “Cooperation between Business and Local Communities”.
There are currently 19 local officials from Ukraine taking part in the study visit with the vast majority being heads of amalgamated hromadas.
The study visit began with a welcome speech by Ms Katja Geršak, Executive Director of CEP who warmly welcomed the participants and presented CEP team and the work of CEP in the U-LEAD project. She was followed by Ms Berta Mrak, the Head of the Department for Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, Central Asia and the Arctic at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Slovenia, who welcomed the group from Ukraine and gave an insight into work the Ministry does with Ukraine, bilateral relations between countries and the high-level visit from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia that occured last week in Kiev. She was followed Mr Andrii Borodenkov, First Secretary from the Embassy of Ukraine in Ljubljana, who expressed his pleasure at being able to greet the study group from Ukraine on a U-LEAD study visit to Slovenia. He shared a few examples of the work the Embassy does, spoke about especially about the cultural cooperation of the countries and examples of Slovenian and Ukrainian economic cooperation.
After a short warm-up session and introduction of participants held by Ms Meliha Muherina, Project Manager at CEP, the theoretical part of the visit begun.
First lecture of the day was given by Mr Gorazd Orešek, from SPIRIT Slovenia – Public Agency for Entrepreneurship, Internationalization, Foreign Investments and Technology, who spoke about SME support in Slovenia, attracting investments to the local environment and establishing conditions conducive for entrepreneurship in a local community, especially when speaking about industrial zones.
The following lecture was given by Ms Nina Seljak, from the Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy, who spoke about the results and good practices from cross-border projects Slovenia is involved in and how this practices could be transferred to Ukrainan local communities, when speaking about cross-border connections and projects.
The last speaker of the day was Ms Larisa Vodeb, who focused on the work of Chamber of Craft & Small Business of Slovenia and Enterprise Europe Network.
With the theoretical part done, we will move to ‘the field’ in the following days.
On Wednesday, the participants will visit the Municipality of Tolmin, where they will hear more about the development of the municipality, the influence large events and music festivals have on local community and historical ties between Slovenia and Ukraine. The historical ties will alse be explored with a visit to Javorca memorial church and First World War Museum in Kobarid. They will also meet with the Mayor of Tolmin, Mr Brežan.
Thursday will offer a brief respite from driving as we stay in the municipality of Brda. On a visit to the Municipality, the participants will hear more about the development of the municipality, local projects and development of the cross-border cooperation in the region. The participants will also have the opportunity to visit the cooperative Klet Goriška Brda, where we will be a bit spoiled with a presentation of the work and a degustation. On Friday, participants make a trip across Vipavska dolina and towards Kras to the Škocjan Caves Park, where they will be met with the Director of the UNESCO protected nature park, Mr Stojan Ščuka. The visit to the Park will end with the visit to the Škocjan Cave and certificate ceremony.
The visit is taking place in the framework of the multi-donor action U-LEAD established by the European Union and its Member States Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Poland and Sweden. It aims at contributing to the establishment of multilevel governance that is transparent, accountable and responsive to the needs of the population of Ukraine. U-LEAD with Europe is supporting the Ukrainian Government, represented by the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine (MinRegion) as a key political partner in the coordination and implementation of the decentralization and regional policy reforms. The Program carries out demand-driven and targeted trainings for officials at the national, regional and local level.
7. 11. 2019 | EUPCST, PR
The village of Gotenica in Slovenia was the setting of a Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) between 20 – 25 October 2019 with activities organised by the Centre for European Perspective (CEP), with support of Slovenian Police and Slovenian Armed Forces. Training was organised under the auspices of the project European Union Police and Civilian Services Training (EUPCST).
HEAT is an intensive four-day course that trains professionals to effectively deal with risks-associated and critical situations while deployed abroad. The course in Gotenica offered a unique opportunity for individuals to:
- improve their knowledge about multiple threats present in hostile field environments and to learn how to deal with them in an effective manner;
- rehearse and practice safety and security procedures accordingly with the specific threat;
- strengthen individual skill dealing while with different stressful situations;
- strengthen group dynamics while dealing with multiple stressful situations.
The ENTRi certified training is designed for professionals who are working or are aiming to work with national or international organisations (e.g. EU, UN, OSCE), international non-governmental organisations, governments, the academic or private sector and the ones who want to efficiently prepare for work in conflict areas and hostile environments.
This HEAT edition included 24 participants from various governmental departments and institutions from 11 countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia and Romania. Activities, sharing of best practices, workshops and practical exercises facilitated by experts from the Slovenian Police, Slovenian Armed Forces, psychologist and others contributed to a multidisciplinary approach to the challenges that individuals and institutions might face when deployed in a potentially volatile environment.
22. 10. 2019 | PR, V4, Youth
Centre for European Perspective, has in cooperation with following Project Partners:
– Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary
– Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Slovakia
– EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy; Czech Republic
– Bosnia and Herzegovina Association for United Nations, Bosnia and Herzegovina
– Tomorrow Youth Foundation for Sustainability, Hungary
– BETA-Europe, Poland
– PragueMUN, Czech Republic
and with support of International Visegrad Fund , developed and executed a project, titled YOUNG BSF: YOUTH AS A (FUTURE) (RE)SOURCE. Project consisted of various online meetings, one preparatory meeting held in Sarajevo, main event held alongside Bled Strategic Forum, with final product being production of policy recommendations on current world issues. Topics that the project dealt with have been chosen during the applications procedure, where all the applicants had to answer a question on what do they deem the most important issue pertaining to their country, or their region, and what are some of the solutions for it. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis, following four topics have been chosen as those mentioned most commonly by participants from all over the world:
– Impacts of the European integration;
– Sustainable development for Central and Eastern European region;
– Reconciliation as a precondition to regional cooperation;
– Human rights
Participants were honored to be addressed by Mr Andor Dávid, Executive Director of International Visegrad Fund, who engaged into a one-on-one session discussing Western Balkans and IVF role there, youth and sustainability. At the end of the event Mr Dávid also awarded participants with certificates of participation.
Policy recommendations can be found on the following link: Policy Recommendations
Gallery
Young BSF: DAY 1 Young BSF: DAY 2 Young BSF: DAY 3
21. 10. 2019 | PR, Serbia - management of patrols
Click here to read more about the project in Slovenian language. 
Serbia wishes to strengthen, as part of reforms in the EU accession process and with the help of Slovenia, patrol management capabilities, in order to better respond to people’s needs, coordinate work of police officers on the ground more effectively and provide them with greater security when performing police tasks.
For this purpose, from 16 to 19 October 2019, a study visit of high-level representatives of the Ministry of the Interior of Serbia in Slovenia was successfully carried out. Through simulations of practical cases, they were able to learn how patrolling and patrol management work in Slovenia as an EU member state and what ICT equipment is in use in Slovenia. They were acquainted with the operation of patrols of all police powers, both border, general and traffic police, and work was carried out in Novo Mesto, Ljubljana and Koper. On their arrival in Slovenia, Deputy Director General of the Police of the Republic of Slovenia Jože Senica greeted the Serbian delegation and wished them successful work. The Directors of the police administrations, Stanislav Vrečar and Janez Ogulin presented the experience of the Police Administrations Ljubljana and Novo Mesto. Intensive programme was implemented under the leadership of the Programme Director Andreja Dolničar Jeraj and with involvement of 28 representatives of the Slovenian police, including: Anton Štubljar, Head of the State Border and Aliens Department, Police Station Novo mesto, Miha Ristič, Operations Manager, OKC PU Ljubljana, Primož Kadunc, Head of the Traffic Police Department at the Police Directorate Ljubljana, Robert Bajuk, Head of the Operations and Communication Centre at the Police Directorate of Ljubljana, Bojan Bogovič, Police Commander of the Obrežje Border Police Station; Zoran Obrez, Police Commander of the Ljubljana Traffic Police Station, Srečko Medic, Police Commander of the Brežice Police Station, Ciril Mlakar, CVS Mobile and Dr Tatjana Dragovič, workshop leader.
This is a two-year Republic of Slovenia development aid project for the Republic of Serbia (2019-2019). The project continues with activities and a meeting on November 18-19, 2019 in Belgrade, focused on the development and production of ICT equipment that will assist in the management of patrols in Serbia.
The project is part of program activities carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior / Police of the Republic of Slovenia and CVS Mobile, and is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia from funds for international development cooperation.
Further information:
Andreja Dolničar Jeraj
Programme Director
Centre for European Perspective
