Regional training

Training in one's own region has three advantages: cases that match local reality, a shorter and therefore cheaper journey, and ties with colleagues from neighbouring countries. Regional training fosters cooperation between States of the same area.

It takes local languages and legal systems into account.

Each campus works with universities, museums, administrations and regional organisations (African Union, ASEAN, Council of Europe). These partners co-fund sessions, propose speakers and open their collections.

They help adapt the content to local specifics: types of objects, trafficking, law.

Trainees can follow a module on another campus. This mobility, supported by scholarships, encourages South-South and North-South exchanges. A Nairobi trainee can thus follow a law module in Paris, a Singapore trainee a field module in Nairobi.

It contributes to building a global network of professionals.

Regional sessions are grouped in spring and autumn. The calendar is published a year in advance. Enrolment opens three months before each session. Places are allocated first to candidates from the region.

Public officials go through their national focal point.

Regional training has enabled the training of 3,200 African officers, 1,400 Asian officers and more than 2,000 European and Middle Eastern professionals over ten years. It has directly contributed to the creation of ten national identification units and twenty-three joint operations.

These results are published in the Academy's annual report.

The Academy's reception service answers practical questions Monday to Friday, in French, English and Spanish, and can direct each visitor to the programme, scholarship or free resource that fits their situation. A guidance counsellor also offers a thirty-minute individual meeting, by appointment, to build a realistic training pathway.

Trainees' feedback is valuable: each session gives rise to a questionnaire, and the most useful suggestions are examined each quarter by the teaching committee. Do not hesitate to write to report a difficulty, propose a subject or tell us what the training has changed in your practice.