Pre-deployment training for CSDP missions: developments, lessons, way(s) ahead

The (new) EU Policy on Training for CSDP and the related Implementing Guidelines[2] aim at creating an overall CSDP Training Architecture and at rendering pre-deployment training systematic and compulsory, at better synchronizing it with in-mission training and, more in general, at fostering harmonized training standards for increasing integration, inter-operability and effective mission mandate implementation. How this is going to be done or, better, how effectively this is going to be made, largely depends on the role the EU Civilian Training Group (EUCTG)[3] will play in this regard and on the concurrent responsiveness of member States. This short contribution gives an overview of the current CSDP Missions pre-deployment training praxis in terms of the why, the who, the what and how of such formative activity