NMIOTC in accordance with Alliance’s gravity given to manage insecurities, instabilities and eventually crises as considered an essential core task, will provide this course in cooperation with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (School of Sciences – Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Postgraduate Program “Environmental, Disaster and Crisis Management Strategies”) in order to enhance trainees capabilities and allow them to deal with a wide range of emerging crises in an increasingly complex, dangerous, even unstable at certain cases, environment.

The aim of the course will be the transmission to the trainees of basic knowledge and skills in order to understand essential definitions and discriminate them, such as disasters, crises and crisis management in the maritime domain.

Taking into account Alliance’s direction that all crises can be prevented through diplomacy or other appropriate measures, NMIOTC will provide all the necessary skills and tools so that the engaged trainees, coming either from NATO countries or partner nations, can be from the one hand proactive and reactive if an upcoming crisis occurs, and on the other hand capable of conducting, participating, supporting maritime operations, article 5 or non article 5 crisis response operations (NA5CRO) by achieving interoperability and standardization in the light of the Alliance.