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Border Guard Career-Path Education / Common Standards for Border Guards
Education and Basic Training Programme
EUR 1,230.000
The Common Core Curriculum for EU Border Guard Basic Training (CCC) is a curriculum
offering measurable, common standards for national BG training institutions, teachers and
students in all EU Member States. It consists of a general part and modules for sea, air and land
borders. It is the first common curriculum including common skills and competencies (as
common standards) for the basic training of law enforcement officers in the EU.
CCC has been updated by the joint efforts of Member States under Frontex’ lead.
In 2013 the CCC work includes:
Continued support and assistance to MS/SAC for the implementation of the updated CCC;
CCC implementation in Frontex Partner Countries - second phase;
Implementation of common training materials including an e-learning component;
Teachers’ mobility/exchange programme enhancing the role of the Frontex Partnership
Academies;
Erasmus-like student exchange programme:
Implementation (and further enhancements) of the Schengen Border Code eLearning tools
at various levels.
Budget: EUR 280.000
Common Standards for Mid-level and High-level BG Education
Work on common standards for Mid-level and High-level BG Education is aimed at further
developing and harmonising the educational standards and learning requirements for mid-level
and high-level border guard education, on the basis of the Sectoral Qualifications Framework
for Border Guarding according to Bologna/Copenhagen principles and the European
Qualifications Framework (EQF) as the common reference for linking with national
qualifications systems. It includes:
Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS) for EU Mid-level Border Guards aiming to
harmonise the learning requirements for mid-level BG officers according to
Bologna/Copenhagen principles. The programme design started by reviewing the former CMC
outcome (Common Core Curriculum for Mid-level Management) in order to align it with the
Sectoral Qualifications Framework (SQF) for Border Guarding (EQF level 6). The final product is
aimed at being a modular programme structure comprising a core set of learning standards for
mid-level BG education that will serve as a curriculum guideline and/or as a degree structure
for a EQF / SQF level 6 programme. The CCLS for EU Mid-level Border Guards could be used as
a guideline for a bachelor programme and/or as a set of modules that could be integrated into
existing national programmes in a flexible manner, and/or offered complementarily at the EU
level as a common European module designed as a student/teachers exchange concept.
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