From the 21st to the 25th of November 2022, 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 comprised of theoretical lessons and practical exercises combined with live demonstration.
The development and execution of NATO CBRN EOD IM SOT was greatly supported by expertize of instructors from NATO JCBRN Defence COE in the Czech Republic, Belgian EOD Group, an expert from OPCW, Slovak CBRN Battalion and Slovak National Centre for EOD and CBRN.
In total, 19 students from NATO countries (BEL, CZE, DEU, ESP, GBR, ITA, NLD, POL, ROU, SVK, TUR) and non-NATO country (Finland) attended the course. All of them successfully completed the training and fulfilled the Education and Individual Training student’s assessment criteria embedded in the NATO EOD COE Quality Assurance policy.