Training & Learning
'You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink' and the same goes for training. Training and teaching does not automatically result in learning. Training is a profession - an art! It is creating effective learning environments that enable students or participants to learn. As CEPOL's target group exists of senior police officers, mainly andragogical (adult learning) principles are applied.
Learning is the processing of information which leads to changes or an increase in competencies. CEPOL acknowledges that people learn in different ways as they have different learning styles, by using a balanced mix of learning modalities. CEPOL is also aware of the fact that courses cannot contain all information available, that information increases on a daily basis as it also loses its validity at the same pace. CEPOL therefore encourages participants to become independent life-time learners. 
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CEPOL's Common Curricula provides recommendations about police training on specific subjects with a European dimension. Member States can then use the recommendations within their national police training programmes according to their individual needs. The Common Curricula also provide the basic ideas and elements for CEPOL's courses and seminars. Read more...
The CEPOL Exchange Programme is a multilateral exchange of senior police officers and police trainers from Member States of the European Union. The aim of the programme is to promote mutual trust between training staff and senior police officers, resulting in the support and development of a European dimension to police cooperation and training. Read more...
Euromed II Project The Euromed II programme (often called MEDA II programme) aims to strengthen international police cooperation in the framework of the JAI (Justice and Home Affairs) side of the global MEDA programme which is a programme of cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the MEDA countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Tunisia). Read more...
Through the ages in education, technological progress has always been used to support learning - from print, radio and television broadcasting, audio and video recorders to computers. The use of the latter in the learning process is known as e-learning. Read more...