Hellenic’s Navy Commodore Anastasios Tserkezoglou, Commandant of NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Center (NMIOTC) will visit the Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) and Plymouth University campus on the 10th and 11th of November.
The visit is organized by Dr Fotios Moustakis, Associate Professor of Strategic Studies, BRNC, Director of Dartmouth Centre for Sea Power and Strategy (DCSS) and Amanda Pleven, Development Manager, Plymouth University.
The purpose of the Commodore Tserkezoglou visit to Plymouth is to inaugurate an academic collaboration of the NMIOTC with Plymouth University and the Dartmouth Centre for Sea Power and Strategy.
Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) and NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Center (NMIOTC) have agreed to collaborate at postgraduate level as one module of the new MA degree in Applied Strategy and Maritime Security (DCSPS) will be delivered in Crete by NATO staff but will be accredited by Plymouth University.
The MoU, approved by lawyers representing NATO and the NMIOTC, will be signed on 11th November 2015.
As part of the academic collaboration, both institutions also planning to co-organize one joint workshop per year, as well as PhD supervision to NATO Officers in Strategy, Cyber Security, Maritime Security, Marine Sciences.
Furthermore Commodore Tserkezoglou will brief staff and students about NMIOTC views on the current security threats in the Mediterranean as well as a brief on the mission and the objectives of the NMIOTC in Crete.
For more detail about Commodore Anastasios Tserkezoglou, please follow this link:
http://www.nmiotc.nato.int/#general/dioik_en.htm