Announcements
In response to COVID-19, TDS is transferring attendance courses to online formats.
Regretfully, language and culture online courses are suspended until further notice.
for Students
The Institute offers support to Intelligence students and researchers in the form of an unofficial membership package...
for Professionals
Professional registration is offered to both general intelligence practitioners and specialists within covert domains...
for Institutions
The Institute supports education and training providers, intelligence institutions and fellow professional bodies...
Standardisation
Developing common European standards for covert intelligence disciplines.
Professionalisation
Independently applying professional standards to all registrants.
Centralisation
Uniformity of standards, assessment, evaluation, certification and registration across common governing bodies.
The Institute believes in protecting and promoting the interests of the covert professions through standardisation, professionalisation and centralisation. Fully accredited individuals and organisations make a pledge to maintain the ongoing professional standards expected by the public. The rank and status of professional and scholastic association bestowed with registration is an honour made in recognition of professional ability, integrity and competence amongst those who lead their profession in the service of peace and security. The Institute currently admits expert practitioners to the general register in the general field of Intelligence and to the specialist register in the fields of human intelligence (HUMINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT) and cyber.
Welcome to the Institute for European Intelligence and Security's Intelligence Academy, a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) delivered by Moodle.
Please note that applicants seeking entry onto covert operations courses without a current security clearance certificate or waiver from an international authority, may be required to undertake up to six months of intrusive security vetting prior to being admitted to the programme. Therefore, please make sure to provide the Institute with sufficient notice by applying with sufficient lead time from the start date.
If you have any concerns or issues with the site, please contact your Course Director or the Head of Training and Directing Staff.
COVID-19 Update: Following World Health Organisation guidance all Institute staff are working from home and facilities have been closed. While quarantine remains in place we are working on distance-learning alternatives for new and existing students with video-conferencing substituting attendance lectures and online workshops substituting group activities.
Regardless of the delivery method we continue to work hard to ensure students receive the highest standards of training and education. So please continue to check the scheduled events above against the following course status to make sure you can attend training at a time and place to suit you:
- Available Online Now!: Limited places are now available online. Although the annual residential/online schools run at a fixed times once or twice a year, you can start working on the pre-requisite e-learning component as soon as your application has been processed.
- Coming Soon: Guidelines have been issued to the directing staff, training materials are being field-tested and the course is being revised and finalised prior to release. Courses at this stage will generally be ready for enrollment in less than 30 days.
- Under Development: By now unit outlines are being developed with instructional objectives, unit content and methodological descriptors. Experts are providing course materials including examples and exercises before units are re-drafted and packaged for evaluation. By this stage a course can be expected to launch in 2-4 months.
- Refining Design: At this point the learning objectives are being organised into teaching units, appropriate training methodologies are being selected, content is developed and syllabus/curriculum documents are published. At this stage of development a course can be up to 5-7 months from launch.
- Assigned for Analysis: By this stage the course has been assigned for review, the target audience is being redefined, the ICF amended for the new audience's European functions and the pre-requisite skills and knowledge for those functions defined and selected as the new learning objectives. At this stage of development a course is generally 8-12 months from launch.
- Unassigned: At this stage pre-existing course materials exist in other formats e.g. full attendance mode. The course is scheduled for review, a plan for redevelopment has been agreed, but the course is currently awaiting allocation for translation to delivery by blended-learning. At this stage of development a course could be years from launch.