Training Programmes - Methods - Objectives
Presently the IEP arranges following activities and seminars in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe:
The EU training programme (train-the-trainer) aims to create a pool of EU instructors, comprised primarily of officials of the national administrations of partner countries, but also of representatives from NGOs, universities and other appropriate disseminators. Local pools of instructors are then used to pass on EU expertise in local languages....
Stabilization and Association Agreements (SAA) Training Programme
The SAA training programme is specifically designed for more senior officials of public administration in horizontal and sectoral policy areas of the EU concerned with the requirements related to the Stabilization and Association Process between the European Union and the western Balkan countries (in preparation for ‘potential EU membership’)....
EU Structural Funds Management Training Programme
Central to this complementary qualification are pre-accession grants and Structural Funds management. This programme aims to make accession candidates and future member states more familiar with the instruments and procedures of EU regional policy and thereby increase their absorption capacities. Participants here are drawn primarily from middle and senior administrative levels and are ‘walked through’ all stages of pre-accession grants and Structural Funds management – from making an application and having the application granted to the administration of funding – using case studies provided by the Institute....
EU Negotiations Training Programme
EU accession negotiations contain a number of elements that make them different to traditional international negotiations. Negotiations delegations, decision-makers in appropriate ministries and members of inter-ministerial working groups need practice-oriented preparation for the challenges of accession negotiations....
The Civil Society in the Transformation Process
Given the specific legacies of post-communist countries, the civil society has become very important in the transformation process...
Study Visits, Practical Experience and Exchange Programmes
The IEP organizes informative visits to EU institutions in Brussels. This provides visitors with an opportunity to expand their knowledge by meeting experts on subject-specific issues and to build initial contacts in EU institutions and with political decision-makers and their staff....
Sector-specific Conferences – The EDEN Conference Series
The IEP conduct for several Federal Ministries a series of conferences. The topics vary from environmental policy to waste management....
EU Instructors Handbook
