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From 31st to 4th of April 2025, the Resident Course 31000 “Harbour Protection and its relation to MIO”, with support from the NATO Centre of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters (CoE CSW) and the Bundeswehr’s Technical Center for Ships and Naval Weapons, Maritime Technology and Research (WTD-71), was conducted at the NMIOTC premises. In total, eighteen (18) trainees from five (5) NATO Nations (Germany, Greece, Latvia, Portugal and Slovenia) were trained in NATO Practices & Procedures regarding operational and tactical dimensions of planning and conducting Harbour Protection Operations (HPO).  

From Monday 7th to Friday 10th April 2025, NMIOTC, as a NATO Education and Training Facility (NETF) and continuum member of Military Strategic Partnership (MSP), participated with a three-staff-officer delegation in the Military Strategic Partnership Conference for 2025 (MSPC 25), organized and conducted by NATO SHAPE Partnership Directorate (PD), in Doha, Qatar. In parallel to the Conference, an exhibition was hosted at the same premises, where NMIOTC participated as exhibitor together with other NATO and Partners Education and Training facilities. The objectives of the Conference and exhibition were to advance the NATO partnership processes and programmes; secure planning of efforts;

On Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025, the 28th Senior Course of the National Security School, Hellenic Police Academy, paid a formal visit to NMIOTC, in the context of their educational trip to Crete. The Senior Officers attending this National Security School’s Course, were led by the School’s Commandant, Police Colonel Anastasia Mylona. The visitors were thoroughly informed about the Centre’s mission, and had a productive conversation with NMOTC Chief of Staff and NMIOTC Director of Education & Training.

From 17th to 21st March 2025, the Course 14000 “Maritime IED Disposal (M-IEDD)” was conducted at NMIOTC’s premises. The aim of this course was to educate and train EOD personnel to competently undertake IEDD Operations on-board vessels and other Maritime Infrastructure in support of C-IED and related operations. The training covered the subject concepts; philosophy, principles, equipment, ship insertion and Maritime focused IEDD methodologies, as well as best practices in the Maritime environment. Twenty (20) trainees from nine (9) countries (Greece, Canada, Hungary, Finland, Italia, Poland, Slovenia, Iraq and Qatar) and five (5) augmenters from USA Army, HUN Army and

From 10th to 14th of March 2025, the Resident Course 12000 “C-IED in Maritime Interdiction Operations” was conducted at the NMIOTC premises. This NATO Approved Course fills an operational gap in capability and contributes to operations conducted by Boarding Teams when searching and exploiting evidence, which are fundamental to the C-IED process. The aim is to train Boarding Team personnel in NATO TTPs (Tactics, Technics and Procedures) to undertake expedient weapons intelligence tasks on board vessels and other maritime infrastructure in support of C-IED operations. In total, twelve (12) trainees from six (6) countries (Finland, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Qatar and

On Tuesday, March 11th, 2025, Candidate Attaches d’Ambassade from the Diplomatic Academy of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, escorted by H.E. Ambassador Michael Diamessis, Director of the Hellenic Diplomatic Academy and H.E. Minister Plenipotentiary Loukas Karatsolis, Head of A7 Directorate MFA GRC, visited NMIOTC. During the visit, they were informed about the Centre’s mission, role, training and transformational capabilities/activities.