EASS and Finnish Border and Coast Guard Academy sign a cooperation agreement
Estonian Academy of Security Sciences and Finnish Border and Coast Guard Academy signed a cooperation agreement for 2018.
On 7-8 December, director of the Finnish Border and Coast Guard Academy, colonel Pasi Tolvanen, and Sari Lindblom-Häkkinen, head of research, visited the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences. The aim of the meeting was to discuss making the cooperation between the two schools more efficient, to sign a cooperation plan for 2018, and to introduce the activities of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences.
The main activities in 2018 are going to involve the already traditional international cooperation and border management programme held in the framework of the studies of the Finnish bachelor students, in which the EASS border guard students participate. In addition to that, Estonian and Finnish lecturers participate in experience exchange seminars.
The discussion focusing on cooperation, held at the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, was participated by the Academy’s vice rector Andres Pung, Police and Border Guard College’s (PBGC) director Kalvi Almosen, PBGC’s advisor Maiko Martsik, the head of the PBGC’s Border Management Department Piret Teppan, Internal Security Institute’s professor Priit Suve and the head of the Border Management Bureau of the Police and Border Guard Board Helen Neider-Veerme.
Together they also visited the PBGC’s Paikuse centre where they were introduced the opportunities available on site and the organisation of studies. Besides that, future opportunities for mutual studies were discussed.