Centre for European Perspective

Centre for European Perspective is a provider of development aid and cooperation of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia. CEP is focusing its activities on the Western Balkan countries by building capacity of the EU candidate countries (Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia) and potential candidate countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo) on their way to EU.

For this purpose CEP organizes trainings, seminars, workshops, conferences at international and regional levels, roundtables and other forms of knowledge transfer in the field of security and economic development. All CEP activities are conducted on a request-basis submitted by the beneficiary country and are tailor-made to suit their specific requirements. Main characteristics of the CEP trainings, workshops and seminars are multidisciplinary expertise and interactivity. While experts are involved from the preparation phase on, topics are tackled from different angles and trainees are actively involved in the implementation as well as in the evaluation phase. After the training, trainees can directly apply their acquired competencies, knowledge and skills, to work. CEP activities derive from rich experiences acquired from project management work and systematic problem-solving.

CEP achieves its objective by implementing different tasks in the field of strengthening security and economic development.
CEP main tasks in the field of strengthening security are:
- supporting efforts of state administration in the beneficiary countries in implementing security sector reforms and strengthening institutional capacity,
- transferring Slovenian best practices and knowledge to the beneficiary countries in the field of law-enforcement, detection and prosecution of organized crime and corruption as well as border protection and integrated border management,
- supporting visa liberalization,
- supporting police, defence, customs and judicial authorities reforms
- developing (and providing) certified EU Civilian Crisis Management Course

CEP main tasks in the filed of economic development are:
- supporting efforts of state administration in the beneficiary countries in promoting economic reforms and strengthening institutional capacity
- transferring Slovenian best practices and knowledge to the beneficiary countries in creating a favourable business environment,
- supporting various measures which will promote trade cooperation in the region and between the region, EU and EFTA
- to participate in policy making  that will be beneficial for the countries in the region as well as for Slovenia.

Centre for European Perspective

address: Grajska cesta 1, 1234 Loka pri Mengšu, Slovenia
Tel:+38615608600
Fax: +38615608601
e-mail: cep@cep.si
Website: www.cep.si