From 26 to 31 August the Rescue College of the EASS holds a UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination refresher course (UNDAC Refresher Course). Participants will be of top level UN specialists from around the world.

The UNDAC refresher course is one of the main elements of the UN strategy for training its specialists. It helps to harmonise the content and quality of the work methods applied by the experts of different regions, and to plan and manage team work better. The aims of the course are to practice more efficient responding to potential disaster situation and to increase the UNDAC members’ and UNDAC support team’s capability to fulfil the set tasks. There will be 70 participants from seven international organisations and 17 different countries taking part in the course.

From 15 to 17 August 2018, there will be an opening meeting for the development cooperation project «Development of humanitarian demining education in Lviv State University of Life Safety» in Ukraine.

The main goal of the project is to support the establishment of the training system in the field of humanitarian demining in Ukraine, Lviv State University of Life Safety (LTU) by conducting modern technology based training in Estonia.

On 19 June, Katri Raik, the rector of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences gave Bachelor’s and Master’s degree diplomas and vocational education certificates to 267 new internal security officials. This year there were 15 alumni graduating with honours.

This year, there were 19 Master’s level students, 41 students of the Financial College, 30 students of the College of Justice, 111 students of the Police and Border Guard College and 66 students of the Rescue College graduating from the Academy.

The Estonian Academy of Security Sciences is pleased to invite you to its International Erasmus and Teaching Staff Week “Creativity, Innovation, Research and Technology in Internal Security Area”, which will be held from the 1st to the 4th of May 2018, in Tallinn, Estonia.

The International Week is targeted towards administrative and teaching staff dealing with international projects, research, innovation and e-learning.

Watch the video about studying at the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences.

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On 1 February the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences and 3+1 Architects signed a contract to design the Narva learning centre of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences.

On 14 December the 18-month project supporting the creation of an international-level training system for explosive ordnance disposal technicians and the training of first Ukrainian cadets and instructors was concluded in Lviv.

Estonian Academy of Security Sciences and Finnish Border and Coast Guard Academy signed a cooperation agreement for 2018.

On 7-8 December, director of the Finnish Border and Coast Guard Academy, colonel Pasi Tolvanen, and Sari Lindblom-Häkkinen, head of research, visited the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences. The aim of the meeting was to discuss making the cooperation between the two schools more efficient, to sign a cooperation plan for 2018, and to introduce the activities of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences.

Today the architecture design of the EASS’s Narva Learning Centre was announced in Narva. The authors of the concept design TWIX are the architects of a bureau called 3+1 architects.

In addition to cadets, the study, training and dwelling houses, with a net area of approximately 7200 m² are going to be used by the officials of the Police and Border Guard Board and the students of the UT Narva College. The sports centre in the building will also be opened to the public. The learning centre at 14 Kerese will be finished in 2020.

On 14^th-15th of November EASS in collaboration with the European Commission and Estonian Ministry of Interior will host the renowned Security Research, Innovation and Education Event 2017.