To carry out its missions, the Intelligence College in Europe organises for its Members three types of activities in close cooperation with Academia: thematic seminars, outreach activities and an academic programme.
The activities proposed by the College are developed in close cooperation with Members. They comply with the rules of ethics and security common to our intelligence services. In the academic year 2023-2024 alone, ICE organized 30 activities, nearly as much as the total number of activities conducted in the two previous academic years for the benefit of 1300 Intelligence officers & EU officials.
In this landmark fifth anniversary year, the ICE Permanent Secretariat has undertaken a significant initiative to enhance its visibility. This effort aims to showcase the high level of cooperation already achieved, both to the general public and to key European stakeholders. Its participation to the Paris Defence & Security Forum (PDSF 2024) was one important element of this strategy. Additionally, the initiative underscores the benefits for academics of joining and engaging with the ICE network.
The Intelligence College in Europe offers its Members thematic seminars on various subjects of interest to European national intelligence communities. Through workshops, discussions and roundtables, these seminars are an opportunity to exchange views between intelligence services, as well as with experts from academia.
Seminars take place in the host member country. However, the College has also started organising webinars due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.
In the academic year 2023-2024, four Thematic Seminars and Webinars have been organised. The seminars counted over 300 intelligence officers.
Last seminar
Thematic Seminar on Security in the High North.
From May 6th to 7th, 2025, Norway, holding the Presidency of the Intelligence College in Europe (ICE), hosted a remarkable and forward-looking Thematic Seminar on Security in the High North.
This high-level European initiative was inaugurated by the State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, Mrs. Kristine Joy Nordenson Kallset, in the presence of numerous senior representatives from 14 ICE member and partner countries.
The event fully achieved the main objective of an Intelligence College Thematic Seminar: to seamlessly and effectively bring together senior intelligence experts, academics, and policy professionals in a productive brainstorming setting.
It also met the second aim of such an exercise: to broaden the thematic scope discussed within our extended community, this time expanding the Intelligence College regional focus and expertise on the High North, a region of growing strategic significance for European security.
This dense and impactful seminar, a true flagship event for the College in 2025, also showcased the benefits of a truly collaborative approach. Norway successfully brought together leading experts from Finland, Sweden, and the UK to enrich the strong Norwegian contribution. Through this joint and mixed-format approach, the seminar encouraged forward-thinking on emerging challenges and provided participants with a “3D perspective”, moving well beyond the traditional “2D” frameworks that are still often applied.
Highly interactive, with an engaged audience, valuable networking opportunities, and top-tier roundtable discussions, the “Security in the High North” seminar helped our community better understand the evolving security dilemmas and renewed great power competition in a region long regarded as one of “low tension”. It also deepened our understanding of different layers of integration, whether regional, within alliances, or through new constellations.
This event once again demonstrated the value of this demanding but rewarding format, which allows us to challenge how we analyse emerging threats and how we shape future security policies.
Previous seminars ▼
A nice double Anniversary !
ICE / SIAC ANALYTICAL COURSE
European Security and Defence Course – UCLM Toledo
WEBINAR EUROPEAN UNION – LATIN AMERICA STRATEGIC RELATIONS
Seminar on Intelligence and Decision Making, Madrid
Thematic Seminar on “How to implement strategic issues in the intelligence work?”
French seminar on open-source intelligence (OSINT)
“Psychology in the Service of Intelligence” Seminar
Seminar on “Intelligence Services and Society”
ESDC Doctoral School Conference, Brussels 11th July 2022
Intelligence Cooperation in the 21st Century
Anticipation by Intelligence, Seminar in Vienna
Intelligence and Space Seminar in Paris
Seminar “The Societal Response To Radicalisation And The Role Of The Security Environment”
Webinar “Hybrid Threats and their Impact on European Security”
Webinar “European security challenges”
The College’s outreach scope includes every non-operational subject of interest to European national intelligence communities, and relating to general methodology and specific strategic issues. These actions, carried out through an academic prism, can be initiated by the College or at the behest of the European institutions and academic partners.
The outreach sessions organised by the College are mainly intended for national and European decision-makers, employees of European institutions, as mentioned in Article 13 of the Treaty of the European Union, as well as members of the academic world. Broader civil society, such as students and researchers, can take part in outreach sessions, under certain conditions.
Outreach sessions can also take the form of professional and academic publications produced by academics or intelligence professionals, and published in academic journals or online.
The number of outreach activities is steadily increasing, with 15 activities that took place during the academic year 2023/2024.
The Intelligence College in Europe offers to intelligence officers of member countries a range of specific courses and education training developed in close partnership with academia, to help build better mutual understanding.
The College’s Academic Programme does not promote a single vision, but can facilitate contact with different strategic cultures and completes training offers developed at the national level.
The Academic Programme aims at providing flexible and professional training to College Members. The courses are organised in modules and meet the concrete needs of intelligence professionals.
It exists in two formats: a yearly executive education programme and post-graduate courses.
During the academic year 2023/2024, five sessions of the Executive Education Programme were successfully organised, gathering almost 180 participants. Six Postgraduate Courses have been conducted, engaging over 150 participants.
The Academic Network is growing year after year. It consists for now of 36 academic institutions, academies, universities and think tanks from 18 different member countries.