European cooperative military education, training and simulation
Virtual reality simulation. Picture Gert Altmann via Pixabay European defence cooperation on education, training and simulation has many important advantages to enhance skills, share European military culture for our military men and women, and reduce costs. The importance of cooperative training and the intention to make training an element of the permanent structured cooperation has been agreed in the Lisbon Treaty. This intention was reinforced in more recent papers on European cooperation like the EU global strategy for defence and security, but omitted in the European Defence Fund. Simulation technology for training was never mentioned. Hence, we believe cooperation on military education, training and simulation needs more attention. Members of EURODEFENSE and EDTA associations in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Spain and the UK collectively have compiled a report on the most important potential areas of cooperation as well as technological and funding opportunities