DRESMARA at NATO PTECs Marketplace and Working Group
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DRESMARA Director, COL Florin-Eduard GROSARU - Associate Professor, PhD, COL Dorin DUICULETE - head of educational planning, secretariat, PR, international relations and administrativ Section and Liliana FILIP- International Relations Expert and PR Officer attended the Exhibition of the NATO Partnership Training and Education Centers – PTEC Marketplace details organized by the Allied Command Transformation - Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (HQ SACT) and NATO School, Oberammergau, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on 19.10.2016. NATO Partnership Training and Education Centers (NATO PTEC) play an essential role in supporting NATO’s objectives for partnership with non-member countries. Representatives of 17 such training and education facilities gathered in this annual event for presenting and promoting their achievements and educational offers to the wider community of NATO. The activity also provided a good opportunity for dialogue among representatives of NATO member and partner states or NATO entities, and as well as for of experience exchange among the PTEC participants. ACT web site / Published on 20 October 2016 by Col Rustam Gozalov/ ”Partnership Training and Education Centres (PTEC) play an essential role in supporting NATO’s objectives for partnership with non-member countries. Representatives from nineteen of these training centres came together at NATO Headquarters on 19 October 2016 in an annual PTEC Community event known as the “Marketplace” to introduce themselves to the wider NATO community, presenting their course guides and the overarching missions of the respective centres. The PTEC Community is comprised of thirty-one centres based in twenty-five NATO and partner countries. PTECs offer courses and academic seminars to both military and civilian audiences. In addition, they provide platforms for exercises and training of an operational character, including in preparation for deployment to NATO operations. PTECs have been proactively participating in NATO initiatives to harness interoperability by contributing multinational education and training activities to the Partnership Cooperation Menu, by conducting targeted Mobile Education and Training Teams, and by providing Subject Matter Experts in support of NATO’s partnership programmes. They provide education and training to the Partnership Cooperation Menu in a variety of critical Areas of Cooperation, including Lessons Learned, Language Training, Crisis Management, Law of Armed Conflict, Democratic Control of the Armed Forces and Defence Structures and Gender Perspectives, Peace and Security. The community has welcomed two newly recognised centres: the first is from the United States, the Peacekeeping and Stability Operation Institute, and the second is from Hungary, the Hungarian Defence Forces Pease Support Training Centre. Vice-Admiral Horcada, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Representative Europe, opened the event highlighting the importance of the network between NATO and the Partner Countries, with the "Marketplace" being a tangible example of how cooperation and mutual understanding can bring to successful results. The annual "Marketplace" event also allows representatives to exchange expertise and to forge new links, discuss further synergies and new courses, while also attracting more members to the network, which in turn helps to connect allied and partner forces by collaborating on training expertise. NATO School Dean of academics, U.S. Colonel Timothy E. Dreifke emphasised the impact of the training centres. Partnership Training and Education Centres:
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