From the 11th to the 15th of November 2024, the NATO Security Force Assistance Centre of Excellence (NATO SFA COE), in collaboration with the US Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance (JCISFA), organized the third edition of the Institutional Advisers Course at the Italian Army Infantry School’s officers’ club.
The aim of the course is to contribute to meeting the need for sustained and standardized professional development of Allied and Partner military and civilian personnel to conduct stability activities.
The course has been planned as a blended learning solution. It starts with a distance learning period, with self-study assignments (ADL Component Course), followed by a residential part that is composed of a series of modules and is based on adult learning principles.
During the course, participants engaged in working groups to explore topics covered in the plenary sessions in detail and practiced methods for analysing and assessing the capacities of local forces.
The Institutional Advisers Course was enriched by real-life experiences, analyses, best practices, and lessons learned from three ongoing advising missions, including those in Mali and Georgia.
This course, as well as the SFA Operators Course and the Advanced Distant Learning’s SFA Orientation Course are together classified “NATO Selected”, which is a certified training opportunity open to NATO and Partners that meets NATO-Specific E&IT Requirements.
