Kick-Off Meeting for Quality Assurance 2025
21.02.2025
As part of the EOD COE Quality Assurance (QA) Plan 2025, the Centre held its QA Kick-Off Meeting on 21 February 2025. During the meeting, Director COL František Mihalovič assigned members of the Education & Training Department as Course Directors (CDs) for the courses scheduled for 2025.
The CISM International Day of Military Sports is celebrated in Trencin too.
18.02.2025
On 18 February, NATO Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre of Excellence members participated in a “Run for Peace” event in Trencin to commemorate the foundation of the International Military Sports Council (CISM) and demonstrate “Peace and Friendship Through Sport.”
The 29th C-IED WG Meeting
18.02.2025
The Danish Engineer Regiment and Joint Engineers and CBRN Centre in close coordination with the NATO Standardization Office organized the 29th Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices Working Group (C-IED WG). The meeting was held at the Eigtveds Pakhus (Warehouse), Strandgade 25D, DK-1401 Copenhagen, Denmark from 10 to 14 February 2025.
MG Lorinc Visited The NATO EOD Centre of Excellence
19.12.2024
On December 18, 2024, MG Miroslav Lorinc, Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Slovak Armed Forces officially visited the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre of Excellence (EOD COE) in Trenčín, Slovakia.
NATO’s 2024 Alliance Warfare Development Conference: Shaping the Future of Defence
16.12.2024
Two representatives from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre of Excellence (EOD COE), Director, Colonel Frantisek Mihalovic, and the Chief of Staff, Colonel Zsolt Szilagyi participated in the NATO’s 2024 Alliance Warfare Development Conference, held December 8th to 10th 2024, in Norfolk, Virginia.
MILENG COE Information Exchange Seminar 2024 and Industry Day
06.12.2024
The Military Engineering Centre of Excellence (MILENG COE) successfully hosted its annual Information Exchange Seminar (IES) from 3rd to 5th December 2024 in Ingolstadt, Germany. This event brought together NATO entities, national representatives, and civil organizations to address key challenges and share lessons learned from various operational contexts.
Goodbye Friends
02.12.2024
This year, we have had to say goodbye to our colleagues far too often. On November 30, we bid farewell to five of them. These colleagues and friends—LTC Milan Tichý, MAJ Daniel Daloš, MSGT Peter Filimpocher, MSGT Zuzana Jánošíková, and MSGT Peter Bulko—chose to end their military careers.
NATO EOD Staff Officer Training Mobile Training Team
27.11.2024
In accordance with the Romanian Armed Forces operational needs, the NATO EOD COE delivered in a form of Mobile Training Team (MTT) the NATO Explosive Ordnance Disposal Staff Officer Training (NATO EOD SOT). The NATO EOD SOT MTT was held in the Combat Support Training Centre in Ramnicu Valcea (ROU) from 11th NOV to 22nd NOV 2024.
NATO Senior Joint Engineer Conference 2024
19.11.2024
The Director, Colonel Frantisek Mihalovic, and the Chief of Staff, Colonel Zsolt Szilagyi from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre of Excellence (EOD COE) participated in the NATO Senior Joint Engineer Conference (NSJEC) in Edelweiss Resort, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 12-14 November. The annual meeting was Co-Chaired by DACOS Capabilities (ACT) and ACOS Joint Engineering (ACO) and hosted by the United States of America.
Another ETACS Field Test in Hungary
18.11.2024
Following the completion of development efforts and workshops, the time has come once again for end-user testing! The first location of this year’s field tests was Hungary, where the NATO EOD COE Technology Department, represented by MSGT Gábor Korom, Deputy Project Manager (DPM) of the ETACS project, conducted the EOD/IED VR Training and XR Combat Support KIT (ETACS) field test.
10th EOD Workshop 2024
08.11.2024
The 10th EOD WS was held in the period of 5 - 6 NOV 2024 in Samorin, SVK as an in-person event. The workshop was continuum of the EOD COE WS series since 2012. This event brought together around a hundred international experts, practitioners, academics and innovators to explore critical developments in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD).
Ignition point 24-2
29.10.2024
The “Ignition Point 24-2” C-IED exercise, organized by the Hungarian Defence Forces 1st Engineer and Riverine Guard Regiment, took place at the HDF Military Training Area in Újdörögd from October 14-18, 2024. The NATO EOD Centre of Excellence (COE) was invited to participate as observers, represented by Warrant Officer Gábor Korom.
NATO CBRN EOD Incident Management Staff Officer Training 2024
21.10.2024
From October 14th to 18th, 2024, NATO EOD COE organized NATO CBRN EOD Incident Management Staff Officer Training (CBRN EOD IM SOT) in Trencin and Novaky, Slovakia. The NATO CBRN EOD IM SOT consisted of theoretical lessons, practical exercises, and live demonstrations.
Terrorism Experts Conference and Executive Level Defence Against Terrorism Seminar 2024
21.10.2024
The NATO Centre of Excellence – Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT) organized the Terrorism Experts Conference and Executive Level Defence Against Terrorism Seminar 2024 in Ankara, Turkey, from 16 to 17 October 2024.
Northern Challenge Exercise 2024
16.10.2024
From 24 SEPT to 10 OCT 2024, the Icelandic Coast Guard hosted the multinational Bomb Disposal Exercise "The Northern Challenge (NC Ex)". The NC Ex aimed to train response to real-life terrorist incidents involving IEDs and other EOD-related scenarios, similar to those that have occurred in recent NATO missions and to be expected in the future.