Frontex plays a crucial
role in proper training and enforcing high common standards that are the
foundation European Integrated Border Management (IBM). This role of the agency
has become even more crucial as it trains the first members of the European
Border and Coast Guard standing corps, Europe’s first uniformed law enforcement
service. Frontex’s new and essential role is to ensure that standing corps
officers are properly trained and have the technical and operational readiness to
be deployed and operate in a unitary manner in any operational area generating
added value.
At the same time, Frontex
continues to support border and coast guards in their preparation for
operational deployment at the EU external borders with cost-effective training
solutions, a hybrid model of training and learning services offering delivery
of training on a large scale as well as tailored to the specific operational
and individual needs of border and coast guards before and during deployment.
Frontex providing
members of the standing corps category 1 (Frontex statutory staff) the necessary
border-guard or return-related training, including on fundamental rights, by
way of the Basic Training Programme so that they are able to promptly respond
to current and emerging challenges in a professional and interoperable manner.
It also provides specialisation
trainings to all categories of the standing corps, tailored to the operational
profiles for deployment and relevant to the tasks and powers in the field. The
specialisation training is designed to enable the technical and operational
readiness of the standing corps.
As part of its mission
to strengthen the capacities of Member States and foster cooperation among
border and coast guard training institutions, Frontex aligns its training of
European border and coast guard officers with the operational needs according
to operational profiles, using as central reference the Sectoral Qualifications
Framework for Border Guarding, aligned to the European Qualifications
Framework, integrated with the Coast Guard SQF and benchmarked with other
existing sectoral frameworks in collaborative fields.
Frontex support the
growth of Member States’ capacity in the area of border guarding by setting a
common approach to EU border and coast guard training and education for developing
and delivering a variety of harmonised programmes (Common Core Curricula
(CCC-basic, CCC-mid-level management)), and the European Joint Master’s in Strategic
Border Management. Frontex also provides specialised training programmes in
core areas of Integrated Border Management to EU national authorities to
enhance their border management capacities. The main topic areas covered by the
programmes are Document and Identity Fraud, IBM (Course for IBM advisers),
Situational Awareness, implementation of large scale IT systems for border
management and Inter-agency Cooperation). A limited number of the specialised
training programmes in core areas of IBM are available to be offered as
technical assistance to non-EU partner countries in the context of the
implementation of the Frontex mandate.
