NATO DEEP Colombia Scoping Visit (2-6 May 2022)

The NATO Defence Education Enhancement Programme delegation visited Colombia between 2-6 May 2022. The main aim of this visit was to review the Professional Military Education (PME) system in Colombia and find possible ways of future cooperation. The NATO DEEP delegation: (1) Mr. Mariusz SOLIS – NATO DEEP Coordinator, (2) Prof. Al STOLBERG – U.S. DEEP Coordinator, DEEP Senior Academic Advisor, (3) Mr. Paul VAKY – National War College, (4) Mrs. Branka PETEK – Chairperson of BILC, (5) Mr. Darryl LONG – Regional Program Lead at the Institute for Security Governance (U.S.), (6) Mr. Marcin JOZWIAK – DEEP eAcademy Deputy Director for Academic Affairs, During the visit, the delegation has visited the following institutions: (1) Ministry of National Defense – MOD, (2) Superior School of War – ESDEGUE, (3) Military Cadet School – ESMIC, (4) Military Aviation School, in Cali, (5)  Naval Cadet School – ARC, in Cartagena. The main topics of the visit were: institutional adaptation, curriculum development, faculty development, language teaching system, and advanced distributed learning capabilities. As the last point of the visit, the NATO DEEP delegation summarized their findings at a joint meeting with NATO Embassies in Bogota.Want to be always up-to-date? All news from this visit was published on our Twitter. Follow us @DEEP_ADL