From the 18th to the 21st of January, a NATO SFA COE Subject Matter Expert held an educational activity within the training module organized as part of the Joint Services Staff Course (ISSMI) coordinated by the Centre for Defence Higher Studies (CASD). The module was aimed at the enhancement of the personnel’s soft skills in Leadership, Team Building and Problem-Solving.
On the 2nd of December 2021, during the roundtable on the “Security Force Assistance in Afghanistan”, the NATO SFA COE met with Lt Col Jahara MATISEK, associate Professor in the Department of Military and Strategic Studies and member of the US Department of Defence Minerva project, who co-authored the 1st Chapter titled a Practical Guide for Advisors in Fragile States: Peacebuilding Approaches for SFA Programming of the publication on “Promoting the Rule of Law and Good Governance – SFA implications in international initiatives".
NATO SFA COE representatives (the Director, Education and
Training, Analysis and Lessons Learned Branches) joined the 6th Annual
Discipline Conference within the Military Contribution to Peace Support
(MC2PS).
From the 26th to the 28th of October 2021 the NATO SFA COE
Education and Training Branch representatives joined the Individual Training and
Education Program Planning Board (IPB) organized by NATO – Allied Command
Transformation (ACT) and hosted at the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational
Training Centre (NMIOTC) – Chania (Greece).
From the 14th to the 16th of September, the NATO
SFA COE joined the NATO Training Technology Conference (NTTC), organised in
hybrid mode, by the Supreme Allied Command Transformation (HQ SACT) and arrived
to the third annual iteration.
On the 30th of September 2021, NATO SFA COE will present its first publication on promoting the Rule of Law and Good Governance and how the main International Organisations are involved in supporting this initiative.
The NATO
Security Force Assistance (SFA) Centre of Excellence’s Director, Col. Massimo
DI PIETRO, is pleased to announce that “The SFA Advisors' Enhancement
Seminar” will take place from the 27th to 30th of September
2021 at the Italian Army Infantry School garrison.
NATO SFA COE joined the second annual meeting of the
Intelligence and Security related Centres of Excellence (COEs) organized by the Joint
Intelligence and Security Division of the NATO International Staff with the NATO Intelligence Enterprise (NIE).
On the 16th of June, the NATO SFA COE joined the Seminar
on EU-NATO training and education lessons identified and best practices
during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, organised by the European Security and Defence
College (ESDC) and the Allied Command Transformation (ACT).