Allies and partners share skills and expertise: the PTEC Marketplace 2015

ACT PAO

Published on 21 October 2015

Partnership Training and Education Centres (PTEC) play an essential role in supporting NATO’s objectives for partnership with non-member countries.

Representatives from many of these training centres came together at NATO Headquarters on 21 October 2015 in an annual networking event known as the “Marketplace” to introduce themselves to the wider NATO community, presenting their course guides and the overarching missions of the respective centres.

“PTECs have contributed in practical terms to the sustainment of NATO partnership programmes and built unique training opportunities in a variety of critical capabilities” said Vice-Admiral Horcada, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Representative Europe. “By offering various levels of education and training in a huge variety of areas of cooperation, the PTECs all together have demonstrated their ability to complement each other’s offers and to contribute commonly to the Alliance aim of making sure that NATO and its partners stay connected” he added.

Co-organised by Supreme Allied Command Transformation and the NATO School in Oberammergau, the “Marketplace” also allows participants to exchange expertise and to forge new links, discuss further synergies and new courses, while also attracting more members to the network, which in turn helps to connect allied and partner forces by collaborating on training expertise. NATO School Commandant, U.S. Navy Captain Scott Butler emphasised the impact of the training centres. “What this community does for peace and security around the world cannot be stated enough,” he said.

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