Five years of the Intelligence College in Europe: Paving the way for a common European intelligence culture

30 September 2024

31 countries, 89 intelligence and security agencies, one goal:

in the Intelligence College in Europe, representatives of European and non-European agencies work together to create a common strategic culture in the European intelligence landscape. In their article published in 2024, former CISS Director Uwe M. Borghoff, together with Lars Berger from the Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences Berlin and François Fischer, Director of the ICE's Permanent Secretariat, describe exactly how this can be achieved and how the ICE can be useful for the exchange of intelligence expertise and best practices.

The authors show that the work of the ICE lies in the academic education of future employees of intelligence services and security authorities. According to Borghoff, Berger and Fischer, the ICE combines practice-oriented seminars with courses at Master's level. The best example of this is the Counterterrorism module, which emerged from the German Master's degree course “Intelligence and Security Studies”.

You can find the full article here.

(c) Uwe Borghoff