Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) Pre-deployment and Orientation Courses in Europe, part 1.

Abstract

In this article I would like to give a short summary about CIMIC pre-deployment and orientation courses available in Europe, and in the European Union at different institutions and training centers. The descriptions are based on some personal experience, also some are collected across interviews from other participants, and of course via open sources, like course catalogues. The aim of the article is to collect the special kind of courses and demonstrate the wide range of similarities as fact of integration and harmonization, but also try to highlight some small differencies. I would like to make a short list of institutions, course thematic, lecturers and duration of these courses. There are no scientific result in this article as standing alone, but my wider research area a comparative essey on the European Union member states and compare their relation to Common Security and Defence Policy, their participation in EUFOR (ongoing, military) missions, CIMIC activity and institutions and try to find the similarities and differences