Common modules – why do we need them and where do we go from here?

Division External Relations

LtKol SBH DUBOIS Dirk

AgendaCommon Modules

• Why• What• When• How• Who/where

Common Module – why?

• Difficult to engage in long-term exchange• Evaluation (individual)• Allows teacher exchanges• Benchmarking between academies: exchange

good practices• Converging curricula (long term)

Common Module – what?

All military training is aimed at making a robot out of you!

Who else – in his right mind –

would run towards somebodywho is shooting at him

(Ben Bova)

Common Module – what?

• Common interest;• Can be organized by ≠ MS• Academic OR vocational• Short-term exchange (anywhere between 3

days to two weeks)• Modular OR integrated in semester

Existing modules

• CSDP• CSDP Olympiad• How to meet the media• PSO• LOAC• Maritime leadership• Leadership and agility in complex environment (pilot)• Train-the-trainer• Basic Military English

Common Module – when?

• Announce during IG meeting and/or ESDC SC• Plan sufficiently up front to allow for budget

planning• European month/period?• Best suited: Oct/Nov or March to May (avoid

exam periods)• Preferably not earlier than 3rd Bachelor year

Common Module – how?ECTS

Language

Descriptors

Evaluation

Details but no details

Common module - who

Any military higher education facility

(or MOD) as long as participation

is open to all EU Member States

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse (Cato)

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