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.
