The Intelligence College in Europe (ICE): An Effort to Create a European Intelligence Community

TL;DR

This paper discusses the creation of the Intelligence College in Europe (ICE), which offers postgraduate intelligence education to foster a European intelligence community, with a case study on its Counterterrorism module.

Contribution

It introduces ICE as the first pan-European postgraduate intelligence training institution and details how its modules are adapted for a European audience, exemplified by the Counterterrorism course.

Findings

ICE provides specialized intelligence training at a European level.

The Counterterrorism module is successfully adapted for diverse European professionals.

The program enhances collaborative intelligence education across Europe.

Abstract

In fulfilling the European security commitment, the actors of the so-called "Intelligence Community" play a central role. They provide political and military decision-makers with important analyses and information. The Intelligence College in Europe (ICE) is the first entity to offer professional intelligence training as well as postgraduate level academic education in intelligence and security studies at a pan-European level. In developing its postgraduate provision, ICE has benefited from the experience of the German Master of Intelligence and Security Studies (MISS), which is a joint effort of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich and the Department of Intelligence at the Federal University of Administrative Sciences in Berlin. As a main contribution of this paper, the module Counterterrorism (adapted from the MISS) is examined in more detail as a case study of how postgraduate modules can be modified to speak to a pan-European audience of intelligence professionals.