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Basic facts - Hybrid CoE
• Initiated by 16 MSs with support from EU and NATO; 9
signatories of MoU in April 2017
• First event organized on 6 September 2017, though
officially inaugurated on 2 October
• Latest members RO, CY, GR
• SI, ME approved May 14th; TR pending
Managing:
• Steering Board: decides on policy, program and budget.
• Secretariat: manages common functions with core staff
(15) and secondments (UK2, FIN2, EE, LT, DE, AT, US, LV;
PL, CDN, GR discussed)
Communities of Interest (COIs)
• Network based approach
• COIs are networks of practitioners (or researchers) from
Member States and institutions
• COIs for multidisciplinary sharing of best practice, experience
and expertise for participants to better
understand, defend against and respond to Hybrid threats
• Space to coordinate action
• Intellectual matchmaking
• Multidisplinary approach
Research and Analysis
Understanding the changing world, connecting the dots
• Conceptualising Hybrid
Origins and traditions, characterization, changes and new security environment, trend mapping
• New research openings
Connect unrelated areas (tech & social science), multidisciplinary, identify gaps
• Networks
Expert-pools (regional & thematic), cooperation with COI I
• Educational training courses ”to understand hybrid”
• Research to support the COIs and Training and Exercise functions
Handbooks, scenarios, research papers, case-studies, assistance etc.
• International joint projects
Involving our partners
• Publications (www.hybridcoe.fi)
Strategic analysis, research reports, recommendations & lessons identified
• Working with the EU and NATO
Conceptualizing hybrid with JRC – putting the research together
CoE Outreach in non-EU/NATO-members
• Hybrid developments in the neighborhood/partner countries
clear → Collective need to know and to care
• Collect information and experiences of the neighboring regions
to benefit for the CoE activities
• Cooperation with academia in and academia doing research on
these areas. EU and NATO research bodies
• Guests contributing to the knowledge base, ideas, and best
practice of the CoE
• Combine outreach with EU- and NATO-activities and other
“same-aim” actors in the regions, ”twinning”-pilots
• This is: No capacity building but cooperation when beneficial to
the CoE and Memberstates
• Fact finding to Georgia in March
EaP partners in particular
www.hybridcoe.fi