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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Successful delivery of the Crisis Response Operations Planners Professional Development CourseAnother beneficial course
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That’s a wrap for 2023!Successful completion of the NATO-approved Gender Focal Point Course online iteration
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Solidifying partnership The CMDR COE Director and the NCGM Commandant reaffirm commitment to cooperation
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Expert Workshop on Gender PerspectivesThe CMDR COE successfully concluded an Expert Workshop on Gender Perspectives
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CMDR COE Extends Crucial Assistance to Jordan′s National ExerciseCMDR COE Collaborates with Jordan in Evaluating Earthquake Preparedness.
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Multinational Crisis Management CourseA course for the Jordanian Public Security Directorate
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Collaboration with an universityAgreement with the University of National and World Economy (UNWE).
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Disaster Risk Management Course for the Jordanian Public Security Directorate11-16 June 2023
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Practice of crisis management proceduresA training session took place on June 7, 2023, at the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
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Future cooperation between the CMDR COE and the GATE InstituteOn Tuesday 6th of June 2023, the Director of Big Data for Smart Society Institute (GATE), Prof. Silvia Ilieva...
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Four days of insightful deliberations and exchange among future Gender Focal Points That’s a wrap for the first 2023 iteration of the Gender Focal Point course!
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