The 13th Annual conference of CMDR COE
Date: (04-06-2025)
Since its official accreditation in 2015, the CMDR Centre of Excellence acts as a focal point of crisis management and disaster response analysis, expertise building, information and best-practices sharing. This year, the annual conference was built around a timely and thought-provoking theme: “Ensuring continuity management in a new security environment".
Placing the focus on the arising security challenges, the CMDR COE seeks to draw attention to adequate preparedness and contribute to timely adaption within the crisis management and disaster response domain to NATO’s continuous transformation.
In such context CMDR COE carried out its 13th Annual Conference on 4 June 2025. This year event encompassed three panels - Comprehensive Strategies for Modern Crisis Preparedness; CMDR COE in support of NATO Transformation; Building a Realistic Environment for Complex Crisis/Disaster Exercise Scenario.
The main purpose is to reveal beneficial practices that have been found and might be useful. Naturally, this idea reflected on the composition of the conference. Different organisations and entities have formulated their own approaches, all of which refer in general to improving capabilities in the fields of their own assets and assessments. Most national crisis response strategies emphasize the synergies of cooperation in the efficient use of limited resources, thus it is very important the roles and responsibilities to be distinct in order to be mutually complementary. The objective remains as the interagency interaction is to develop coherence and effectiveness with due regard for each actor’s area of expertise.
The Conference opening address was delivered by the Deputy Minister of Defence of the Republic of Bulgaria, Mr. Radostin Iliev, who noted that combined expertise and innovative thinking are of utmost importance in developing capacities to meet the challenges to the global security. He emphasized CMDR COE’s strong position among NATO’s Centres of Excellence and highlighted the critical need to maintain comprehensive approach in response to present crises worldwide.
News
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Project NMSG-147 CompletionSuccessful conduction of the last practical experiment of NMSG-147
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Building Resilience - A Workshop in Jordan.The National Center for Security and Crisis Management in Amman, Jordan hosted a CMDR COE Mobile Education and Training Team which conducted the first of series event, part of NATO Defense Capability Building project for Jordan.
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Successful Pilot Course On Resilience Deliberating on resilience in military contexts - the CMDR COE and the CCOE conducted a joint pilot course on RtCP
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2019 Strategic Decision-Making for CRO successfully conductedA challenging and constructive 2019 iteration
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CMDR COE Supports International GIS Day′2019GIS Day is an annual event celebrating the technology of geographic information systems (GIS) that was initiated by spatial analytics world-leader Esri
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Intensive CMDR Course Week From 14 to 18 October 2019 the CMDR Exercise Planners Training (CMDREPT) Course was conducted
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Assembly of CMDR COE Governing BodyThe 7th meeting of CMDR COE Steering Committee (CMDR COE SC) was held in Sofia.
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Cooperation ContinuesCollaboration Agreement has been signed between the War Studies University Warsaw and CMDR COE
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MSG-147 Prepares Limited Object Experiment (LOE3)Preparation of the Limited Object Experiment (LOE 3) is in progress
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CMDR COE Welcomes New Deputy DirectorFrom October 7, 2019, a new Deputy Director has commenced term of service in the Centre.
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CMDR COE Assisted Balkan Bridges′2019 ExecutionApparent participation of CMDR COE in the biggest multinational CAX for 2019
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Agreement for Cooperation SignedFormally collaboration with the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior
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An Ambassador VisitAmbassador of the Republic of South Africa, H.E. Mr Thabo Thage paid a visit to the Centre
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Successful Course On Resident NATO-Approved ItemCMDR COE conducted its resident Crisis Response Operations Planners Professional Development (CROPPD) Course.
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Planning and Conducting Disaster Relief Operations Course at SEEBRIG HQCMDR COE Mobile Education and Training Team (METT) successfully conducted a Planning and Conducting Disaster Relief Operations Course at South-Eastern Europe Brigade (SEEBRIG) HQ
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CMDR COE in Ekiden Relay Marathon Our team participated in the Sofia Ekiden Relay Marathon
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Balkan Bridges`2019 is On TrackThe Final Technical Conference (FTC) of the exercise was hosted by CMDR COE
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Joining Forces for Gender Mainstreaming - A Seminar in GeorgiaCMDR COE METT in David Aghmashenebeli National Defence Academy, Georgia
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Strengthening Cooperation with Tennessee, USACMDR COE welcomed a visitor team from the Tennessee National Guard (TN NG)
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Our Centre in the 2019 COE MarketplaceNATO HQ met represantatives of the 25 NATO-accredited Centres of Excelence (COEs), 15-16 July 2019 in Brussels
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Quality Assurance Accreditation of CMDR COECMDR COE has earned Unconditional Accreditation and NATO Quality Assurance Certificate
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Agreement Signed with Capacity Building International Institute, USACollaboration Framework Agreement was signed with the Capacity Building International Institute (Delaware, USA)
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CMDR COE Concludes 7th Annual Interagency Interaction ConferenceThe Crisis Management and Disaster Response Centre of Excellence has concluded the 7th Annual Conference on Interagency Interaction in Crisis Management and Disaster Response on June 6, 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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CMDR COE Conducts One More Advantageous Disaster Management CourseThe 2019 resident Disaster Management course was successfully conducted on the newly renovated CMDR COE premises on 13-17 May 2019, and parallel to the NATO Quality Assurance Process for the Centre.
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HQ SACT Quality Assurance Experts Visit 15-16 May 2019HQ SACT Quality Assurance Team of Experts with a 2-day visit in Sofia as a part of the Quality Assurance accreditation process of the CMDR COE
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High-level Visit of the Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of DefenseMr. Damir Krstičević, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Croatia visited the CMDR COE on May 3, 2019.
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One Day Round Table Discussion - SFA and FFAO Development “One Day Round Table Discussion”, over the development of the new editions of the NATO Strategic Foresight Analysis (SFA) and Framework for Future Alliance Operations (FFAO) Reports
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CMDR COE conducted a resident Climate Change and Security CourseA productive and informative discussion on most pressing climate change challenges to security.
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The CMDR COE Fourth Anniversary CMDR COE reception in the newly opened premises of the Centre
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