On Tuesday, 11 May 2021, the Minister of the Interior Mr Makis Voridis, the Deputy Minister of National Defence Alkiviadis Stefanis and the President of the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government Mrs Paraskevi Damalioti signed a Cooperation Protocol concerning manpower training and development issues of the Ministry of National Defence, at the aforementioned Centre’s facilities.
The signing of the Cooperation Protocol confirms the outstanding interministerial cooperation, which contains actions’ categories, like the detection of training needs, public administration, financial management, management of human resources, electronic governing and legality and transparency of administrative action.
The Minister of the Interior expressed his satisfaction for this cooperation, pointing out that “The National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government has a lot to offer regarding further educating the Army, Navy and Air Force members and we also detect a perspective from the side of the National Defence staff officers to transfer knowledge and experience, especially with regard to strategic planning, to Public Sector’s members. This two-way cooperation starting today will be mutually profitable; it will strengthen both the National Defence and Public Administration’s members”.
The Deputy Minister of National Defence stated the following in his address:
“We are especially happy for the signing of the Cooperation Protocol with the National Center for Public Administration and Local Government. I would like, from the bottom of my heart, to thank the Minister of the Interior Mr Makis Voridis, because, from the first moment, he realised the importance of the action, resulting in its rapid implementation. We also express warm thanks to the President of the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government, who functioned on the basis of improving the next day to come, regarding the constitution and signing of our cooperation. In the Armed Forces, we consider human beings as our most important weapon system. So, we wish to offer our members the best possible, which is not only military, training. We regard training with greater extroversion. We understand that our personnel has everyday communication with other agencies as well, in view of actions and synergies and we wish to provide them data, through which they will increase their sense of extroversion. For many years, the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government offers us that. But now, we set a frame having vision, specific goals and countable effectiveness. At the same time, we too add our own experience in the wider public sector. The experience arises from the staff knowledge regarding analysing and finishing every mission, through implementation of the proposals that have initiated this procedure. We expect a lot of benefits from this cooperation and we are certain that we will soon have tangible results that will be extraordinary”.
Finally, the President of the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government called the specific Cooperation Protocol “an organised agreement with specific targeting and timetable, which will be based on an action plan, aiming at further educating the National Defence Ministry’s members and also to transfer this know-how in the whole spectrum of Public Administration. We are committed as the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government to immediately initiate the planning of the action plan concerning training, proceeding in immediate implementation and results, which we will gladly submit to you very soon”.
