Eighth CMDR COE Steering Committee Meeting
Date: (07-10-2020)
Under the provisions of the CMDR COE’s Operational Memorandum of Understanding, the Sponsoring Nations establish the Steering Committee (SC) under the permanent chairmanship of Framework Nation. No decisions there can be taken under silence procedure. Yearly the SC provides direction, guidance and advice to the CMDR COE Director for the effective execution of Centre’s mission and activities.
The Crisis Management and Disaster Response Centre of Excellence (CMDR COE) organised and hosted the 8th Steering Committee meeting, which took place on 6-7 October 2020 at CMDR COE premises, in order to facilitate a prolific debate around the subject.
The annual Steering Committee sessions are the venue where the Framework Nation and Sponsoring Nations set out all required prerequisites to be provided by the CMDR COE every year. The strategic governing body is responsible for the approval and management of the Centre’s Programme of Work (POW) and the shared budget. Considering the POW, the Steering Committee members allocate the priorities of the activities and subsequently task the CMDR COE Director with managing the programme execution.
The Chairman of the Steering Committee, Lieutenant General Dimitar Iliev, Deputy Chief of Defence of the Republic of Bulgaria, highlighted in his opening remarks the importance and broad positive effects this joint endeavour brings.
Romania declared the opening of joining process to the CMDR COE in order to receive the status of “Sponsoring nation”. Romania officially declared its commitment to deploy personnel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs no later than 1 July 2021.
As members of the Steering Committee, Colonel Plamen Kostadinov from the Framework nation and the representatives from the Sponsoring nations, Colonel Ioannis Chondroudakis (Hellenic Republic) and Colonel Ireneusz Zygmunt (Republic of Poland) actively discussed the topics, expressing their appreciation for the achieved improvement and hard work of CMDR COE staff despite the COVID-19 situation. As observers, including online, part took representatives from Allied Command Transformation, Hungary, Romania and The Republic of North Macedonia, who congratulated the CMDR COE for the ambitious and successful performance in 2020.
At the meeting were discussed the activities hold in 2020, current and future POWs and projects, as well as the CMDR COE budget, proposal for organisational amendment, strategic perspective and forthcoming events.
The 8th Steering Committee confirmed that despite the challenging pandemic situation that the Centre greatly advanced on its aim, further strengthening its position as a hub of expertise in CMDR supporting and contributing to the enhancement of NATO’s CMDR capabilities, to the improvement of the Alliance’s interoperability though education and training, research and analyses, concept and doctrine development, experimentation, and lessons-learned.
News
The CMDR COE with its first NATO-certified Gender Focal Point course online
» read moreCMDR COE co-organization and participation in an exercise for implementation of the contingency plan of the Municipality of Belene
» read moreThe CMDR COE continues to spare no effort in establishing cooperative partnerships.
» read moreCMDR COE continues to explore the different aspects of the pandemic situation
» read moreClosing an internship period (22 June – 3 July 2020 )
» read moreThe first edition of 5-day course delivered in Advanced Distributed Learning Format
» read moreCMDR COE Director responds to the inquiries of NATO’s Youth Ambassadors on crisis management
» read moreThe CMDR COE and the Bulgarian Academy of Science (BAS) join forces under a Framework Collaboration Agreement.
» read moreCMDR COE encoureged our partners to support the European Commission′s Joint Research Centre, in cooperation with University College London, who has recently launched a European-wide study to understand perceptions, needs and priorities of the public affected by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency.
» read moreAdapting to the requirements of а global pandemic, the CMDR COE leveraged on modern technology to transfer its annual Conference on Interagency Interaction in Crisis Management and Disaster Response to an online environment
» read moreVirtual conference from Tuesday (May 12) continuously until Thursday, (May 14).
» read moreIn this grafic National Health Commission of PR China, tell readers how to protect themselves against novel pneumonia, update them on latest developments in the worldwide fights against the pandemic, and provide insights how thevirus is spread
Source: http://en.nhc.gov.cn/2020-03/28/c_78799.htm
» read moreFor first time the 2020 Annual CMDR COE Conference will be conducted on-line.
» read moreSoon publish newly elaborated definitions
» read more
Prevention and containment: CMDR COE cancelling public activities, continuing daily business under strict measures
» read moreA fruitful process concentrated to the outcome of the project concept
» read moreCMDR COE hosted the Initial Planning Conference of the exercise JACKAL STONE 2020.
» read moreSuccessful conduction of the last practical experiment of NMSG-147
» read moreThe 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.
» read moreDeliberating on resilience in military contexts - the CMDR COE and the CCOE conducted a joint pilot course on RtCP
» read moreA challenging and constructive 2019 iteration
» read moreGIS Day is an annual event celebrating the technology of geographic information systems (GIS) that was initiated by spatial analytics world-leader Esri
» read moreFrom 14 to 18 October 2019 the CMDR Exercise Planners Training (CMDREPT) Course was conducted
» read moreThe 7th meeting of CMDR COE Steering Committee (CMDR COE SC) was held in Sofia.
» read more