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.
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A course for planners developmentCrisis Response Operation Planners Professional Development Course (12-16 Sep 22)
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Gained Cup at the 8th Sofia Ekiden (Relay) MarathonThe CMDR COE Team won the cup in the category Governmental Institutions at the 8th Sofia Ekiden (Relay) Marathon on 6 September 2022.
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Welcome Newcomers
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Extension of the Technical Agreement between CMDR COE and the Nikola Vaptsarov Naval AcademyAn Annex to the Tehnical Agreement was signed between the CMDR COE and the Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy formalizing the commitment to implement the agreed activities within the next 5 years.
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ESDC Press Release on the Disaster Relief in CSDP Context CourseThe European Security and Defence College (ESDC) had the honour of co-organising the course on Disaster Relief in CSDP Context, together with the Crisis Management and Disaster Response Centre of Excellence, the Diplomatic Institute to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria and the Romanian National College of Home Affairs.
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Spring 2022 CMDR COE Interns successfully complete their internship Interns present their research on CMDR-related topics.
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Disaster Relief in CSDP Context CourseThe aim of the course is to provide basic knowledge about the impact of man-made, natural and climate driven disasters on the European Security.
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Honorary Award from the Bulgarian Diplomatic Institute CMDR COE Director awarded for contribution
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NATO Partnerships 360 SymposiumCMDR COE Panelist to the NATO Partnerships 360 Symposium.
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New life for used plastic – the CMDR COE launches a recycling initiativeThe CMDR COE new approach to reducing plastic pollution.
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Representatives from UK and US Embassies paid a visit to CMDR COEThe CMDR COE is proud to announce that on 31st of May 2022 a meeting with representatives from The United Kingdom Embassy to Bulgaria and the United States Embassy to Bulgaria was held.
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