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Seminar on South-East European security organized by SOA in conjunction with the Intelligence College in Europe
Croatia's Security-Intelligence Agency (SOA), in conjunction with the Intelligence College in Europe (ICE), organized a seminar from 6 to 10 February 2023 on security processes and challenges for South-East (SE) Europe and their influence on Europe. The seminar encompassed various security perspectives and challenges for SE Europe, with seminar participants being senior leaders of European intelligence communities from ICE member states. Thirty participants from 14 countries took part in the seminar.
The seminar was organized in cooperation with the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Political Sciences and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Other than speakers from SOA and the mentioned faculties, presentations also given by representatives of the Office of the President of Croatia, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Office for the Council on National Security, VERN University, University of Split Forensic Science Department, Croatian Military College and Police Academy, as with the EU INTCEN representative.
Other than discussing security processes and challenges in SE Europe, the seminar contributed to ICE goals of generating strategic thinking on contemporary security themes at the European level and increasing ICE's visibility at national level.
The Intelligence College in Europe is an intergovernmental entity project that gathers 23 national security-intelligence communities of European states. On 26 February 2020, the twenty-three states met in Zagreb to sign the ICE Letter of Intent. One of the College's tasks is developing academic programs for European level strategic thinking on security and intelligence themes. To that end, the College's platform develops academic networks for strengthening cooperation and dialogue between security-intelligence and academic communities. SOA chaired the Presidency of the Steering Committee for ICE from 2020 to 2021.
The ICE academic network in Europe comprises 26 academic institutions, universities and Think Tanks in 14 member states. The ICE academic platform in Croatia is represented by the Zagreb University, Faculty of Political Sciences and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The seminar was organized in cooperation with the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Political Sciences and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Other than speakers from SOA and the mentioned faculties, presentations also given by representatives of the Office of the President of Croatia, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Office for the Council on National Security, VERN University, University of Split Forensic Science Department, Croatian Military College and Police Academy, as with the EU INTCEN representative.
Other than discussing security processes and challenges in SE Europe, the seminar contributed to ICE goals of generating strategic thinking on contemporary security themes at the European level and increasing ICE's visibility at national level.
The Intelligence College in Europe is an intergovernmental entity project that gathers 23 national security-intelligence communities of European states. On 26 February 2020, the twenty-three states met in Zagreb to sign the ICE Letter of Intent. One of the College's tasks is developing academic programs for European level strategic thinking on security and intelligence themes. To that end, the College's platform develops academic networks for strengthening cooperation and dialogue between security-intelligence and academic communities. SOA chaired the Presidency of the Steering Committee for ICE from 2020 to 2021.
The ICE academic network in Europe comprises 26 academic institutions, universities and Think Tanks in 14 member states. The ICE academic platform in Croatia is represented by the Zagreb University, Faculty of Political Sciences and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.