NATO SFA COE E&T BRANCH PARTICIPATED IN THE COE E&T CHIEFS ONLINE MEETING
NATO SFA COE Education and Training Branch representatives
joined the COE E&T Chiefs Online Meeting organized by NATO HQ Supreme
Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) Staff.
The aim of this event was to promote, improve and increase
the coordination and collaboration within the COE Education and Training
Community of Interest, in support of the Supreme Allied Commander
Transformation’s Strategic objectives in order to continue enhancing Allied
Command Transformation’s (ACT’s) relationship with the NATO-Accredited Centres
of Excellence (COEs).
During the event, the representatives of three Joint Force
Development (JFD)’s Branches (Education & Training Plans and Programmes,
Human Capital Enhancement and Individual Training and COE Programme
Development) stressed the challenge of enhancing the visibility of the COEs
work. They also highlighted the unity of effort between HQ SACT and COEs at all
levels, describing not only the main milestones of the Education and Training
pillar but also mentioning the main activities such as the forthcoming “MC
0458/4 - NATO Education, Training, Exercises and Evaluation (ETEE) Policy”
engagement, the annual reports, the JADLL online platform and ITEP reports.
Underlining the importance of communicating with one-another
when there are cross-cutting topics, the meeting was the opportunity to provide
an overview of the following points:
- the
NATO Global Programming (GP), all in all a methodology to manage NATO training
which consists of three parts: Governing Structure, Development Methodology and
Production Planning Process;
- e-ITEP
to the Production Planning Process, which is the NATO process that aims to
provide affordable E&IT to the right personnel at the right time and place,
in order to satisfy the NATO production requirements. Regarding the future
development of this tool, the accreditation process of e-ITEP 4.1 is underway;
this will introduce new functionalities, especially several focused on the
Global Programming planning process, that will contribute to get the tool more
“user friendly”.
Moreover, the event emphasised the importance of e-ITEP as a
reporting system that can only improve with everyone’s feedback. This is key to
providing the necessary visibility of the unique work that COEs are doing in
supporting NATO to the rest of the Alliance. Furthermore, the event recognized
the support of all representatives and encouraged all the participants to
support this community of interest by using online meetings, and subsequent
information exchanges, as a platform to enhance networking, cooperation and
collaboration between COEs and HQ SACT.