ENTRi

Courses

ENTRi Training
Courses

ENTRi courses are accessible to individuals either going to or already working in crisis management missions for organizations such as the European Union (CSDP missions), the United Nations (UN), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the African Union (AU). The courses are funded by the European Commission, including costs for board and lodging. In the case of pre-deployment courses (with the exception of HEAT courses), international travel will also be covered.

ENTRi courses are not designed to replace any existing courses that governments and sending institutions organise to prepare individuals for possible deployment in crisis management operations. Instead, ENTRi has been created to foster the harmonisation of European and international approaches to capacity-building. The added value for training organisations is that ENTRi seeks to facilitate and strengthen the opportunities for institutions to implement training together as well as to share experiences, trainers, and expertise.

All past courses can be found here.

A list of e-learning courses can be found here.

If you are interested in a broader spectrum of courses please consult the European Commission's Goalkeeper platform here.

ENTRi Courses

Negotiation and Mediation Course, OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM), Donetsk, Luhansk

"I could better understand the dynamics of the negotiation situation. For example, when I was following the negotiations between MH-17 investigation team and the minister of emergency services of Donetsk People's Republic. The goal was to gain access to possible missile launch sites for chemical ground analyses to finalize the on-site investigations."

- Jyrki Kankaanpää, Monitoring Officer

HEAT Course, UN Afghanistan

"I was involved in a security incident (1 guard was killed and 1 colleague injured) and I was well prepared thanks to the HEAT training that I had done in France before leaving. HEAT extremely useful preparation to work in conflict areas."

- Anonymous

Survival part of the HEAT Course, Iraq

"The most practical set of advices/guidelines I have encountered since working in professional security’; ‘I integrated the hostage survival part of the HEAT course to my security induction briefing for the expats working on my site"

- P. Oldoni – Site Security Manager

Negotiation and Mediation Course, Afghanistan

"I knew in advance what advantages and weaknesses I have and could prepare in advance."

- Karel Ulik

Child Protection Course, Mindanao, Philippines / South Sudan

"How to interview children in sensitive manner and understand the complexities of the ‘child’ in different cultures…MRM tools have helped to give training for trainers on MRM.ENTRi training has helped on getting possibilities and develop a career. More the better! Thank you and I hope it will continue."

- Rami Kolehmainen, International Protection Officer at Nonviolent Peace force, South Sudan.

Gender Advisor Course, Menaka, Mali

"In this Muslim dominated part of the world, gender is something new and to discuss and include it in project management is difficult. I applied the skills and knowledge from ENTRi course. I have registered some positive results in the communities."

- Kum G. Wallang; Human Rights and Protection Officer

Mediation and Negotiation Course, UNV South Sudan

"I work mainly on election and conflict analysis and my participation in the course gave me the tools and skills that enhance my ability to engage political parties and communities in using mediation to resolve differences and disputes peacefully."

- Raphael Asuliwonnu, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist; UNDP Zambia

HEAT/response to abduction, Sudan/Afghanistan

"I remained calm and knew what to do. The ENTRi course was a massive help and unmissable for those who have never been in a mission environment."

- Michael Irish’ Stephenson

Human Rights Course , EU's Police Mission in Afghanistan

"The course helped me to develop a new human rights evaluation system of the police stations in the Afghan capital Kabul. The training very much inspired me to think of some relevant indicators regarding topics such as anti-torture, gender and human rights and how they could be properly fitted in to a new evolution format that would actually work on the ground.."

- Johan Chytraeus; Gender and Human Rights Adviser

Mentoring and Advising Course, UN Mission in Sudan/South Sudan

"It benefitted and aided my role as a Mentor/Adviser. The material also helped me in the facilitating subsequent training programme I designed for our national counterpart in South Sudan as well as for some of my colleagues. The delivery of the training session on Mentoring and Advising was vivid, practical and took cognizance of what is happening in missions. Its like I took the course yesterday."

- Solomon Aina, Corrections Mentor/Adviser Officer

Mentoring in Civilian crisis management Course, UN Mission in Kinshasa

"It helped me to deal with a different group of judicial officers, and judicial staff which seemed to be heavily reluctant to our mission."