Military Erasmus

ABOUT THE “MILITARY ERASMUS” INITIATIVE

The Euro­pean ini­tia­tive for the exchange of young offi­cers inspired by Eras­mus, often referred to as “mil­i­tary Eras­mus” in the media, is an ini­tia­tive under­tak­en by the Euro­pean Union Mem­ber States aimed at devel­op­ing the exchanges between armed forces of future mil­i­tary offi­cers as well as their teach­ers and instruc­tors dur­ing their ini­tial edu­ca­tion and train­ing. Due to the fact that the ini­tia­tive is imple­ment­ed by the Mem­ber States on a pure­ly vol­un­tary basis, their auton­o­my with regard to mil­i­tary train­ing is not com­pro­mised.

The imple­men­ta­tion of the ini­tia­tive is dri­ven by the key idea that exchanges of young offi­cers dur­ing their ini­tial train­ing form the cor­ner­stones for the emer­gence, in the longer run, of the increased inter­op­er­abil­i­ty and com­mon cul­ture that are need­ed for Euro­pean secu­ri­ty and defence. An Imple­men­ta­tion Group was cre­at­ed in Feb­ru­ary 2009 as a task-ori­ent­ed con­fig­u­ra­tion of the Euro­pean Secu­ri­ty and Defence College’s Exec­u­tive Aca­d­e­m­ic Board.

Rely­ing on con­tri­bu­tions and sup­port from the Mem­ber States, their insti­tutes and the Euro­pean Secu­ri­ty and Defence College’s Sec­re­tari­at, the Imple­men­ta­tion Group very quick­ly made sub­stan­tial progress on var­i­ous aspects of the ini­tia­tive.

More about ini­tia­tive: www​.emi​lyo​.eu

With respect to Ini­tia­tive, shar­ing con­cerns on Com­mon Secu­ri­ty and Defence of the Euro­pean Union, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy active­ly par­tic­i­pate in all meet­ings of Imple­men­ta­tion Group. Dur­ing the first year of involve­ment MUT’s offi­cer cadets took part in sev­er­al events orga­nized by EU  mil­i­tary academies/universities of edu­ca­tion, cul­tur­al and sport­ing nature.

As a response for the needs of part­ner Acad­e­mies, Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy in the mid 2018 orga­nized two events – one focused on sport Mil­i­tary Multi­na­tion­al Sports and Shoot­ing Games,  and the sec­ond one in frame of so called Com­mon Mod­ules – one week, tech­nol­o­gy mod­ule —  Advanced Tech­nolo­gies in Bor­ders Sur­veil­lance.

For 2019 MUT already sched­uled sec­ond edi­tion of:

• Mil­i­tary Multi­na­tion­al Sports and Shoot­ing Games 2019 (8 – 10 May)
• Advanced Tech­nolo­gies in Bor­ders Sur­veil­lance 2019 (3 – 7 June)

Please find also infor­ma­tion and Appli­ca­tion Forms at www​.emi​lyo​.eu. under: Mobil­i­ty Offers and Mul­ti­pli­er Events.

Place of Imple­men­ta­tion Group for the Exchange of Young Offi­cers Inspired by Eras­mus with­in struc­ture of sys­tem Com­mon Secu­ri­ty Defence Pol­i­cy of Euro­pean Union. Sources: www​.emi​lyo​.eu Elab­o­ra­tions of prof. Har­ald Gell – Chair­man of Imple­men­ta­tion Group