The EASS is a unique higher education institution in Europe where one can major in all spheres of internal security. The academic structure of the EASS includes four colleges as the main academic units: Police and Border Guard College, Rescue College, Financial College, and the College of Justice as well as the Internal Security Institute (Master’s curriculum).

It is our pleasure to introduce the nineteenth issue of the Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences. The Proceedings publish studies of contemporary security issues with an emphasis on internal security and law enforcement. In our current issue, entitled ‘Old and New Threats – challenges for internal security’, eight articles with authors from Estonia, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic focus on different types of security threats and challenges in addition to other relevant topics related to security issues and security environment.

The Estonian Academy of Security Sciences will hold an international hybrid conference “SAFELY IN A CRISIS” on 3-4 December

The conference will take place online and at the conference centre of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences at 61 Kase Street in Tallinn.

The conference will be held in Estonian and in English, simultaneous interpretation available online. The conference is free.

“Introduction of hybrid threats of internal security” (Vladimir Sazonov, Erkki Koort, Priit Heinsoo, Kadri Paas, 2020)

We are deeply saddened by the news of the death of Kacper Zieliński, former Erasmus+ student of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences and a student of War Studies University Warsaw.

Rector of EASS Marek Link signed the cooperation contract for the DRIVER+ training module contact point

On Tuesday, 18 February, rector Marek Link and the DRIVER+ project manager Dr. M.P.W. van Berlo signed the cooperation agreement to establish the training module contact point at the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences (EASS).

The assessment committee of the Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational Education (EKKA) decided to accredit the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences (EASS) for seven years. EASS is the first higher education institution to pass a new cycle of the institutional accreditation.

It was decided at the EKKA higher education assessment committee meeting this week to accredit EASS for seven years and award EASS with the EKKA quality label. The committee highlighted the achievements in the areas of resources and study programmes. Among the strengths, the committee noted the good cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior and other stakeholders and also the new study building in Tallinn which is a prime example of a good teaching and learning environment.

Further information:

Heli Mattisen
Director of Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational Education
Tel. 517 8197
e-mail: heli.mattisen [at] archimedes.ee

The Estonian Academy of Security Sciences rector Marek Link, University of Tartu rector Toomas Asser and Chairman of the Management Board of Nordecon AS Gerd Müller will be laying the cornerstone of the new building of the academy’s Narva college at 12:00 today, 18 June 2019. As part of the ceremony, a time capsule will be embedded in the structure of the building.

The Estonian Academy of Security Sciences rector Marek Link said that the construction of the new college supports developments in the study of domestic security in Narva. “By creating a base in the region we’re supporting our students in gaining practice and experience that will help them do their work much more effectively in the future,” he remarked. “One of the aims of establishing the college, and indeed of what we do generally, is to boost the sense of security in Narva and Ida-Viru County generally.”

The Financial College of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences will publish an electronic proceedings series. It will focus on analytical texts related with customs and tax issues exploring the specific problems from various perspectives, for instance, the legal, economic, educational or administrative aspects.

The aim of the proceedings is to provide a platform for the tax and customs specialists, including lecturers, researchers, practitioners, students and public officials to discuss the problems and solutions in the field in the form of descriptive, analytical and scientific texts. The proceedings issues will be published according to the frequency of submitted manuscripts providing the authors with a fast and flexible possibility to introduce the results of their research, analyses and projects.

Altogether 13 Master’s students of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences (EASS) defend their theses on 5-7 June 2019.