Course description
The ESDC Pre-Deployment Training (PDT) aims to increase the effectiveness of the mission/operation. PDT is designed to uniform the management culture of the CSDP missions and to ensure that participants are adequately prepared so that they can be integrate into mission life and be operational as soon as possible upon deployment.
Course objectives
The course enhances participants’ overall understanding of CSDP missions’ functioning principles, provides an insight into the latest policies, instruments and tools available to fulfil the mandate, depict the mission environment and provide a sense of common EU identity and purpose.
Time and venue
The course is held 4 – 8 March 2024 in Brussels, Belgium.
Target group
Seconded and international contracted civilian and military staff who has been selected to be deployed to a CSDP Mission/Operation. This includes staff from non-EU Member States and NATO contributing to CSDP missions and operations.
Costs
There is no course fee. However, CMC Finland does not cover any expenses of the participants apart from those who it sends on the course as part of their mandatory pre-deployment training.
Application
Experts interested in participating in the course should contact their seconding authority.
More information
For more information about the course, please contact ESDC secretariat. Finnish experts selected to serve in an EU mission and who need to take part in this course as part of their pre-deployment training will be contacted by CMC Finland.
