Pre-Deployment Training Course
Ukraine [Cancelled]
2 November 2015 - 5 November 2015
Kuopio, Finland
The 4-day intensive pre-deployment training course is offered by Crisis Management Centre Finland (CMC Finland). CMC Finland is a governmental institution and a centre of expertise in civilian crisis management located in Kuopio, Finland. The main tasks of CMC Finland are to train and recruit experts for international civilian crisis management and peacebuilding missions as well as conduct research focusing on civilian crisis management.
This pre-deployment training course is addressed to experts selected to be deployed within missions conducted by the EU, OSCE or other international organisations in Ukraine. It precisely aims at fostering a common level of knowledge and at creating similar expectations among mission members, which in turn facilitates integration and coherence of the mission. This will be achieved specifically by building a common understanding among future mission members of Ukraine’s history and distinctive political and cultural features; of the international presence in Ukraine; and of a set of practical field related issues.
In particular, the course is structured around 4 modules.
Module 1 - Context setting: Ukraine’s history and distinctive legal, political and cultural features.
Module 2 - International and EU presence in Ukraine: background, key actors and coordination mechanisms.
Module 3 - Main challenges of operating in Ukraine for SSR missions and their personnel.
Module 4 - Practical issues related to field activities (e.g. code of conduct, risk assessment and duty of care).
By focusing on mission-specific issues, the course aims at equipping trainees with the essential knowledge and information necessary to be active mission and team members and to operate smoothly in the respective area of assignment.
It aims at fostering a common knowledge about Ukraine among participants and at providing participants with specific knowledge for their specific mission in order to operationalise and adapt their expertise to the conditions of the theater of operations and the mission environment, including the activities carried out by other international organisations. It has been conceived so as to bring together participants from different international organisations working in Ukraine, such as the OSCE and the EU, with a view to building a mutual understanding of their respective activities and foreseeing a better cooperation on the ground.
The training course will start on Monday,02 November 2015, at 08:30 and will finish on Thursday, 05 November 2015, around 12:00 noon. Classes will start at 8:00 and will finish between 17:00 and 20:00, depending on the day, in the venue of CMC Finland in Kuopio, Finland (www.cmcfinland.fi).
Please note that this training has been cancelled.
Implementing Partners
Lead implementing body: Crisis Management Centre (CMC), Finland.
Registration fee
This course is free of charge. Accommodation, board, and international travel costs will be covered by ENTRi.
Please note that while ENTRi courses are primarily geared toward civilian personnel working in international crisis management missions, police and military candidates are welcome to apply. Please note that course participants from the military are required to cover their own expenses during the course, including accommodation, board, and travel costs.
ENTRi Certification
This course has been certified by ENTRi. For more information on the ENTRi certification process, please click here.
