{"id":115,"date":"2021-01-10T13:10:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T13:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.119.33.18\/wordpress\/?page_id=115"},"modified":"2024-07-14T19:52:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T19:52:34","slug":"about-e-academy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deepportal.hq.nato.int\/eacademy\/about-e-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"About eAcademy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you think that education is too expensive, try ignorance<\/em><\/p>Derek Bok, president of Harvard University, 1974<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Jean d\u2019Andurain served as an officer in the French Army until 2005. He graduated from the Military Academy Saint Cyr in 1978 and Staff College in 1990. He served in various cavalry regiments, was assigned to the Army Staff, the French\u2013German Brigade and NATO. He deployed to Sarajevo in the UNHCR in 1994 and SFOR in 1996. He was then assigned to the International Relations Department at Joint Staff Paris. He joined the International Military Staff, Cooperation & Regional Security Division in 2001, and became head of Partnership Staff Element branch, International Military Staff, NATO HQs, Brussels. Since 1 January 2005, Jean d\u2019Andurain was the desk officer for Defence Education Programmes at International Staff, Political Affairs & Security Policy , Euro-Atlantic & Partnership Directorate, NATO HQs, Brussels, Belgium. His duties included responsibility for Education for Reform Initiative (EfR) and Defence Education Enhancement Programmes (DEEP). This covered relations with NATO and partner defence education institutions, including Partnership Training and Education Centres and PfP Consortium of Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes. He coordinated programs on defence education aspects of NATO cooperation plans with partners, which that date included Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, the Republic of Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by his direct work environment, he was intensely dedicated to bringing defence education to life in and outside NATO. Jean is one of the founding fathers of NATO\u2019s Defence Education Enhancement Programme (DEEP) together with the PfP Consortium. His vision was clear: through DEEP, everybody is a winner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n