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From 4th to 5th June of 2025, the 16th NMIOTC Annual Conference titled: “Steering into the Future: The Impact of Climate Change on Maritime Security” took place at the NMIOTC premises. It was attended by more than 120 participants from 25 Nations, as well as representatives of NATO Command Structure, National and International Organizations, academic community and also from the shipping and defence industry. NMIOTC Commandant, Commodore Periklis Piyis GRC (N), gave the welcome address to the attendees, followed by the Policy Director of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff, Commodore Ioannis Stratogiannis GRC (N), who commenced the Conference with

NMIOTC proudly announces that the NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) qualified our Centre for accreditation within the NATO Quality Assurance (QA) Programme, for the third time in its 16+ years history. We wish to express our profound gratitude to the personnel and trainees of the NATO Maritime Interdiciton Operational Training Centre throughout the years, for their unwavering support and constructive feedback. Their continued dedication and active engagement have been instrumental in upholding the high QA standards in our training packages.  

The NATO School Oberammergau (NSO) “Maritime Operational Law Course” was conducted from 26 to 30 May 2025 at our Centre’s premises, in cooperation with the United States Naval War College (USNWC) and the NATO’s Centre of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters (CSW CoE). This NATO-approved Course aims to provide education and individual training to military/civilian Legal Advisors and Naval Officers in legal considerations pertaining to NATO maritime operations and public international law as it applies to peacetime operations and armed conflict at sea. In total, twenty-nine (29) trainees from fourteen (14) Allied Nations (Belgium, Canada, Estonia, Finland,

Resident Course 13000 “Command Team Issues in Maritime Interdiction Operation in Support of International Efforts to Manage the Migrant and Refugee Crisis at Sea” was conducted from 19th to 23rd of May 2025 at the NMIOTC premises. Course objective was to deliver the appropriate knowledge to the Command Teams of naval units in order to prepare them to fulfil the unit’s specific tasks related to operations to assist law enforcement agencies with the refugee and migrant crisis at sea. In total sixteen (16) trainees coming from ten (10) countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Türkiye)

Resident Course 23000 Weapons Intelligence Team (WIT) Supplement in the Maritime Environment was conducted from 19th to 23rd of May 2025 at the NMIOTC premises. The aim of the course was to educate and train NATO Nations and Partners WIT personnel in NATO Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) to conduct Level 1 – Field Exploitation tasks on board vessels and other maritime infrastructure, as well as in the Underwater Environment, in support of C-IED operations. In total twenty-one (21) trainees coming from ten (10) countries (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Italy, France, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden) attended the course. Subject Matter

From 14th to 15th of May, 2025, NMIOTC hosted ACT’s Defence Planning Practitioners Forum (DPPF) at its premises in Marathi, Souda Bay. The DPPF replaces the previously held Multinational Solutions Conference and is a newly ACT established initiative to provide participants an annual forum to connect, share expertise, solve problems and build a collaborative network to support the planning and execution of NATO Defence Planning Process (NDPP) cycles. The Assistant Chief of Staff – Strategic Plans & Policy NATO ACT, Commodore Ruud Schoonen NLD (N), the Director Staff Element Europe/Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff Defense Planning HQ SACT, Brigadier General