Online Course 86/2021: Public-Private Partnerships and other forms to countering terrorism financing

The overall objective of the training activity is to enhance practitioners’ performance by improving their knowledge on the PPP approach to the financial investigation of terrorism and the financing of terrorism, and in addition by improving skills for using this approach in the context of financial investigations as a tactical tool.

The course will be a platform of cooperation for exchanging knowledge and experiences and a first step of tasks harmonization for LEAs responsible for fighting against terrorism financing.

The learning process highlights a learner-centred approach and will consist of:

• Independent Learning: reviewing case studies, watching webinars, listening short videos (podcasts), studying reading material (25 hours)
• Contact Learning via online forums: forum discussion with other participants, exchange of good practices and group as-signments (5 hours)

The following topics will be covered during the activity:

• Understanding the Terrorist Financing Threat
• Terrorist Financing Investigation and their Challenges
• Public Private Partnerships – Context
• Public Private Partnerships - a Tool Kit to Counter Terrorism Financing
• Supporting financial Counter Terrorism Solutions and Techniques

The course will be delivered online over a period of two weeks, between 31 May - 11 June 2021. While there is no specific time slot when participants shall be available for completing the course tasks, they should follow the course continuously. This is important as they will need to exchange their ideas with other participants virtually and complete small tasks/assignments then share the results of these tasks between each other and debate them collectively. Completion of the course would require 2-3 hours investment / working day from the attending participant during the length of two weeks.

The course will be held entirely in English, therefore it is essential that nominated officials possess appropriate language skills (at least B2 level). The entire activity will be carried out online on CEPOL’s Law Enforcement Education Platform (LEEd), hence the physical presence of participants will not be required.

No special experience is required from participants but it is important that they'll remain open-minded, active and will be willing to share their ideas/experience during the learning process.

Nomination:

In case you are interested to attend, please contact your local CEPOL National Unit / CEPOL National Contact Point as soon as possible. Deadline for nominations by CEPOL National Units: 7 May 2021.

Selected participants have to be registered to CEPOL's online Law Enforcement Education platform LEEd where the online activity will take the place.