
Spain, currently assuming the Intelligence College in Europe (ICE) Presidency after the EU Presidency in 2023, has covered a need repeatedly expressed in the Steering Committee meetings of the College: the Intelligence Officers of our Services should be aware of the European structures.
For this purpose, Spain has organized a high-level postgraduate course, in an hybrid format, beginning in March 2024 by E-learning sessions and concluding week 38 by an on-site course in Toledo.
This demanding course was organized with the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) and its excellent Center of European Studies “Luis Ortega Alvarez”, providing the possibility of obtaining an official certification according to the European Framework of Bologna.
This very “first” has been a success, not only attracting a great number of attendees coming from a very large number of countries, representing all the regions of Europe, but also attendees of high quality, very well positioned in their national community.
The lectures delivered the last day of the course by Ricardo sanchéz-Blanco, Deputy Director General for External Relations and Commercial Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Arturo Relanzón, CNI Secretary General and by Francois Fischer, Director of PS.ICE have opened a very interactive, living and high quality exchange on Intelligence & Security topics of interest at the European level. It has confirmed the excellent impression given on September 20 th by the presentation of the tutored final projects.

This “flagship” course, testament of the quality of the investment of all the attendees and of the teaching delivered by a selected group of Academics led by Isaac Martin Delgado and Juan-Luis Manfredi, will highly likely be reproduced. It fits perfectly in the ICE “EU line of effort” which also includes awareness courses in Collège de Bruges, actions as network associated partner of the European Defence & Security College (ESDC) but also dedicated ICE courses and Conferences in Brussels.
