NATO SFA COE SMEs interviewed Albanian Armed Forces personnel
On the 16th and 17th of February, the NATO
Security Force Assistance Centre of Excellence (NATO SFA COE) interviewed
personnel belonging to the Albanian Armed Forces.
This activity is an integral part of the wider
NATO SFA COE project on defining the SFA Operator’s profile, which aims to
define the human and professional requirements, psychological traits and skills
of SFA Trainer/Mentor/Adviser so that they can effectively operate in any
environment and at any operational level.
In this phase of the project, the staff of the Centre
is collecting experiential data through the use of surveys, individual
interviews and focus groups with personnel who have served in SFA activities in
various operating theatres.
As an integral part of the Centre's team, in
support of the project, a psychologist from the Office of Military Psychology
and Psychiatry of the Italian Army General Staff also participated in the
interview, to be able to analyse in more detail the psychological traits of the
future SFA operators.
The interviewees were selected from units of
the Albanian General Staff, for the first time in a totally virtual mode, due
to the pandemic restrictions in both Italy and Albania, creating a setting
suitable for data collection.
The end goal will be to create, as part of a
broader vision of "Human Capital", a prototype for a common and
standardized education and training process, based on a comprehensive,
multidisciplinary and not purely military approach that can be used by the
entire international community and NATO.