Civilian crisis management is an important foreign policy tool in the European Union’s toolbox. Although shaped by member states, it depends on the efficiency and skills of crisis management experts deployed to crisis management missions and operations in the EU’s neighbourhood and beyond. These missions contribute to the ultimate goal of creating a more secure global environment, thereby making Europe and the world a safer place.

The EU plays a leading role in promoting global peace and security through its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Since 2003, the EU has launched over 40 missions and operations, currently maintaining 21 active missions—12 civilian, 8 military, and 1 civilian-military initiative—together deploying more than 4500 professionals in political affairs, human rights, security sector reform, counterterrorism, strategic communication, environmental and cultural heritage protection, cybersecurity and more. They work independently or alongside military counterparts to strengthen governance, the rule of law, human security and human rights in fragile environments. 

Mission and vision

The European Union Training Initiative (EUTI) is an EU-funded project that supports the commitments outlined in the Civilian CSDP Compact and the 2024 Policy on CSDP Training, recognising continuous training of mission personnel as a key prerequisite for the successful completion of mission mandates. It strives to provide standardised, high-quality, need-based, and tailor-made pre-mission and in-mission training courses, as well as specialised conferences on emerging topics.

In essence, EUTI aims to equip civilian experts with the skills necessary to successfully navigate their deployments to complex operational environments, thereby ensuring the EU’s role as a proactive global peace and security actor.

Respond. Advise. Innovate.

EUTI is centred around three core pillars:

I. Respond to the beneficiaries’ training needs by providing specialised and tailored pre-mission and in-mission training courses.

II. Advise and support efforts to harmonise, standardise, and certify training at the EU level and incorporate the EUTI training methodology into every phase of training development.

III. Innovate: function as a laboratory for new approaches to training, pilot training courses, modules or methodologies on emerging topics and streamline specialist knowledge and research.

Target audience

The EUTI Consortium’s main target audience is civilian, police, and gendarmerie experts who are soon to be deployed or already deployed to international civilian crisis management and peace support missions, including integrated missions. This includes national and international—seconded and contracted—mission staff.

Representatives of the relevant EU institutions working on training methodology, standardisation and certification will benefit from EUTI’s targeted support and advice. At the same time, EU Member States will gain from the cooperation and integrated approach to training.

Consortium

EUTI’s Secretariat, located at CEP, coordinates 15 civilian, police and gendarmerie partners across Europe. They form a strong and knowledgeable Consortium, with the majority of them being actively involved in (EU) civilian crisis management and training since its inception.

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In Control Handbook

A Practical Guide for Civilian Experts Working in Crisis Management Missions. 

This handbook will accompany you the whole way through the mission and back home. It will serve you as an introduction to crisis management missions with hands-on information and practical advice for your everyday life and work in the field. This handbook offers a concise and handy overview and illustrates relevant concepts in clear and simple language – to help you stay ‘incontrol’ at all times.

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