09.02.2010
09:30 - 17:30

Bridging Efforts 2010 - Connecting Civilian Security and Military Capability Development

European Defence Agency
Rue des Drapiers 17-23
B-1050 Brussels
Phone: + 32 0 2 504 28 00

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Renaissance Hotel
Rue du Parnasse 19
1050 Brussels

On 17 November 2009 the Council of the European Union underlined the importance of the European Union's comprehensive approach to crisis management and the need to identify possible synergies between civilian and military capability development. The Council acknowledged the possible economic benefits of finding civil-military synergies in capability development, and the added value of dual use capabilities.

Titled "Bridging Efforts - Connecting Civilian Security and Military Capability Development", the 2010 edition of the European Defence Agency's Annual Conference aims at producing practical results to take civil-military synergies in capability development forward. The Conference will contribute to further enrich the debate on civil-military synergies at European level and explore possible future roles for the EDA as a facilitator to maximise complementarity and synergy between relevant actors.

Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vice President of the Commission and Head of the European Defence Agency; General Håkan Syrén, Chairman of the European Union Military Committee; Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, President and Chairman of the Council of AeroSpace Industries Association of Europe.