Awarded by the Bulgarian Chief of Defence

The National Center for Security and Crisis Management in Amman, Jordan hosted a CMDR COE Mobile Education and Training Team which conducted the first of series event, part of NATO Defense Capability Building project for Jordan.

Deliberating on resilience in military contexts - the CMDR COE and the CCOE conducted a joint pilot course on RtCP

A challenging and constructive 2019 iteration

GIS Day is an annual event celebrating the technology of geographic information systems (GIS) that was initiated by spatial analytics world-leader Esri

From 14 to 18 October 2019 the CMDR Exercise Planners Training (CMDREPT) Course was conducted 

The 7^th meeting of CMDR COE Steering Committee (CMDR COE SC) was held in Sofia. 

Collaboration Agreement has been signed between the War Studies University Warsaw and CMDR COE

Preparation of the Limited Object Experiment (LOE 3) is in progress

From October 7, 2019, a new Deputy Director has commenced term of service in the Centre.

Apparent participation of CMDR COE in the biggest multinational CAX for 2019

Formally collaboration with the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior

Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa, H.E. Mr Thabo Thage paid a visit to the Centre

CMDR COE conducted its resident Crisis Response Operations Planners Professional Development (CROPPD) Course.

CMDR COE Mobile Education and Training Team (METT) successfully conducted a Planning and Conducting Disaster Relief Operations Course at South-Eastern Europe Brigade (SEEBRIG) HQ

Our team participated in the Sofia Ekiden Relay Marathon

The Final Technical Conference (FTC) of the exercise was hosted by CMDR COE

CMDR COE METT in David Aghmashenebeli National Defence Academy, Georgia

CMDR COE welcomed a visitor team from the Tennessee National Guard (TN NG)

NATO HQ met represantatives of the 25 NATO-accredited Centres of Excelence (COEs), 15-16 July 2019 in Brussels

CMDR COE has earned Unconditional Accreditation and NATO Quality Assurance Certificate

Collaboration Framework Agreement was signed with the Capacity Building International Institute (Delaware, USA)

The Crisis Management and Disaster Response Centre of Excellence has concluded the 7^th Annual Conference on Interagency Interaction in Crisis Management and Disaster Response on June 6, 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria. 

The 2019 resident Disaster Management course was successfully conducted on the newly renovated CMDR COE premises on 13-17 May 2019, and parallel to the NATO Quality Assurance Process for the Centre.

HQ SACT Quality Assurance Team of Experts with a 2-day visit in Sofia as a part of the Quality Assurance accreditation process of the CMDR COE

Mr. Damir Krstičević, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Croatia visited the CMDR COE on May 3, 2019.

“One Day Round Table Discussion”, over the development of the new editions of the NATO Strategic Foresight Analysis (SFA) and Framework for Future Alliance Operations (FFAO) Reports

A productive and informative discussion on most pressing climate change challenges to security. 

CMDR COE reception in the newly opened premises of the Centre

MNCG conducted its biggest exercise since its establishment - DORR`19 (18-22 March 2019)

Notable CMDR course this year - first time attended by participants from Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Tunisia and UAE