Dr. Sylvain PAILE-CALVO

Quartier Agora - Place des Orateurs, 3 B31, 30 4000 Liège, Belgium +32 4 366 46 84 spaile@uliege.be

Senior Researcher European Union, World

Skills and competence

Plan, lead and implement actions - Defining priorities and anticipating political and legal obstacles to technical action - Leading and managing a collaborative network around a collective project (projects, field research, scientific societies) - Conceptualising and putting information into perspective (decision-makers, experts, stakeholders, public)

Create and value projects and results - Creating, concluding a research or project and assessing the outcomes for European and international security or defence - Organising, delivering and auditing knowledge dissemination events (military, jurists, field experts, international stakeholders) - Utilizing results for maintaining and strengthening the level of expertise in diplomatic and technical bodies or groups

Inform and communicate - Advising senior civilian and military authorities - Presenting and reporting on methodologies and results (fluent English, intermediate Spanish, beginner in Swedish and Dutch) - Adapting communication to specialised audiences (governmental, military, diplomatic and scientific) and media

Arbitrate, act as a mediator - Intervening in international conflicting situations - Proposing, negotiating and defending positions in various institutions and working groups, technically, legally and politically - Promoting discussion and liaising within international high-level and technical networks

Acquisition of the expertise 2006-2020 Senior scientific researcher European Studies Unit Department of Political Science (University of Liège)

- Leadership, implementation of projects and researches (European Union, international organisations, public and private sectors) on the trade of strategic goods, CBRN risks mitigation and nuclear law - Creation and supervision of the European Doctoral School on CSDP; creation and scientific support of the European initiative “Military Erasmus” (European Security and Defence College – External Action Service) - Assessments, audits and development of projects for Defence Ministries (France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Ireland, Greece) - Preparation of academic courses and international scientific conferences, publication of books, scientific articles, newsletters and communications to media

Curriculum

2015 PhD in Organisation and Management of the Armed Forces (National Military University of Bulgaria) 2012 “Advanced course for Political Advisors in EU missions and operations” (European Security and Defence College) 2010 International School of Nuclear Law (Nuclear energy Agency NEA/OECD – University Montpellier 1) 2006 Master (DEA) in International Relations and European Integration (University of Liège) 2005 Master (Maîtrise) in International and European Public Law (University Toulouse 1, Erasmus at Uppsala University)

Scientific societies, technical groups and honours

First Chair of the Working Group on the European Doctoral School on the Common Security and Defence Policy Honorary Member of the “Military Erasmus” Implementation Group - European Security and Defence College (ESDC) Officer of the Civil Reserve of the French Army Golden Ring of the Theresianische Militärakademie (Austria) Award of the Academic Council of the “Vasil Levski” National Military University (Bulgaria) Member of the International Network of Emerging Nuclear Specialists (INENS), the International Nuclear Law Association (BNLA-INLA), ESARDA (Export Control Working Group), the “Chaudfontaine Group”, the ESDC Alumni Association

Sylvain Paile-Calvo – Curriculum Vitae

Lists of publications and other scientific achievements

1. Publications (by field of research)

1.1 Non-proliferation policies:

Quentin Michel, Christos Charatsis, Lia Caponetti, Sylvain Paile, Emanuela Marrone Do academic activities contribute to WMD proliferation?, Liège, European Studies Unit – University of Liège, Chaudfontaine Series, October 2018. Available: http://local.droit.ulg.ac.be/jcms/service/49/pdf/daacwp/chaudfontaine_esu_2018_full.pdf

Sylvain Paile-Calvo, “Outreach activities: harmonisation or standardisation of security postures?”, pp. 147-156 in Quentin Michel, Wolfgang Lehofer (Eds.), Incentives of Europe for Non-Proliferation Outreach Activities, Liège, publications of the European Studies Unit, 2017. Available: http://www.esu.ulg.ac.be/ Quentin Michel, Odette Jankowitsch-Prevor, Sylvain Paile-Calvo (Eds.) Controlling the Trade of Dual-Use Goods: Sanctions and Penalties, Liège, European Studies Unit – University of Liège, 2016, 324 p. Available: http://www.esu.ulg.ac.be/ Quentin Michel, Sylvain Paile-Calvo “Dual-use controls outreach: a new method”, WorldECR, Issue 38, March 2015, pp. 27-28. Odette Jankowitsch-Prevor, Quentin Michel, Sylvain Paile (eds.), Modelling Dual-Use Trade Control Systems, Brussels, P.I.E. Peter Lang, coll. Non-Proliferation and Security, vol. 10, 2014, 261 p. Quentin Michel, Sylvain Paile, Maryna Tsukanova, Andrea Viski Controlling the Trade of Dual-Use Goods – A Handbook, Brussels, P.I.E. Peter Lang, coll. Non-Proliferation and Security, vol. 9, 2013, 122 p. Sylvain Paile “France and Dual-Use Export Controls. Global but not Globalised” in Odette Jankowitsch-Prevor, Quentin Michel (eds.), European Dual-Use Trade Controls: Beyond Materiality and Borders, Brussels, P.I.E. Peter Lang, coll. Non-Proliferation and Security, vol. 8, 2013, pp 83-94. Sylvain Paile International and European commitments to the export control of nuclear dual-use items: Do the European Union Member States have any room for manoeuvre? Les Cahiers de Sciences Politiques de l’ULg, No. 26, January 2013, 17 p. Available: http://popups.ulg.ac.be/csp/document.php?id=707 Sylvain Paile “France: From Security to Competitive Security” in Quentin Michel (ed.), Sensitive Trade, The Perspective of European States, Brussels, P.I.E. Peter Lang, coll. Non-Proliferation, vol. 5, 2011, pp 61-74.

AIDN-INLA, Nuclear Inter Jura 2007 – Proceedings Actes du Congrès (1-4 octobre 2007), Brussels, Bruylant, 2008, pp. 1051-1062.

Quentin Michel, Sylvain Paile Vers un régime européen de contrôle des exportations d’armes de neutralisation momentanée…En quête de cohérence (Towards a European regime of non-lethal weapons exports control…Searching for coherence) Les Cahiers de Sciences Politiques de l’Université de Liège, No. 8, September 2007. Available: http://popups.ulg.ac.be/csp/document.php?id=133 Participation to the drafting of the course’s handbook “Régulation internationale du commerce des armes” (Professor Quentin Michel) - 15h – DEA in Political Sciences, titled: “Arms and Related Items Control: the Eternal Quest to Reconcile Foreign Policy and Economic Interest”. Available: http://www.depscpo.ulg.ac.be/eu/documents_np_fr.html

1.2 European military education:

Harald Gell, Sylvain Paile-Calvo, Symeon Zambas European Education and Training for Young Officers – European Initiative for the Exchange of Young Officers, Inspired by Erasmus (2nd Edition), Vienna, Publication of the Republic of Austria / Federal Ministry of Defence, 2018, 88 p. Available: http://www.emilyo.eu/node/1029

Sylvain Paile-Calvo “A European Doctoral School on the Common Security and Defence Policy”, in Conference Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference of Doctoral Schools “New challenges related to internal security within the European Union”, 7th edition, Bucharest, 2018, pp. 13-18. Sylvain Paile-Calvo “L’Erasmus militaire entre dans sa dixième année : un élan, des relances” (“The Military Erasmu enters its tenth year: a momentum and relanuches”) in Revue Défense Nationale, “2018 : L’innovation en marche”, January 2018, pp. 71-78. Sylvain Paile-Calvo From European Mobility to Military Interoperability – Exchanging Young Officers, Knowledge and Know-How, Luxembourg, Publications Office of the European Union, 2016, 316 p. Foreword by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Ms. Federica Mogherini Available:https://eeas.europa.eu/topics/common-security-and-defence-policy-csdp/10727/from-european-mobility-to-military-interoperability_en

Sylvain Paile-Calvo “Une école doctorale européenne au service de la PSDC?”, La Lettre de la RMFUE, N°63, November 2015, p. 8. Sylvain Paile-Calvo “Europeanising the initial Officers’ Education: Some Challenges, Many Opportunities” (pp. 59-63) and “Modelling the European Initial Officers’ Education and Training Systems” (pp. 75-80) in RACVIAC - Centre for Security Cooperation, Compendium 2015, October 2015. Available: http://www.racviac.org/downloads/publications/2015/RACVIAC_Compendium_2015.pdf Sylvain Paile

“Common Security and Defence Policy Module” in Armis et Litteris 33, Theresianische Militärakademie - Wiener Neustadt, 2015, pp. 23-96. Available: http://www.emilyo.eu/scientific_publications Sylvain Paile-Calvo “Common Modules Organised by the Greek Military Academies, 2015”, Athens, Hellenic Military Academy Printing House, 2015, 105 p. Sylvain Paile-Calvo “Developing the exchanges of young Officers in the European military higher education area”, in Scientific Conferences Reports “Current Security Issues” - Conference “Scientific Management of Security and Defence Resources” - 13-14 November 2014, Veliko Tarnovo, “Vasil Levski” National Military University, Bulgaria, Vol.1, 2014, pp.171-178 Sylvain Paile-Calvo, Evelina Kinova “Transformation of the armed forces and the Officers’ training in the European Union”, in Scientific Conferences Reports “Current Security Issues” - Conference “Scientific Management of Security and Defence Resources” - 13-14 November 2014, Veliko Tarnovo, “Vasil Levski” National Military University, Bulgaria, Vol.1, 2014, pp.165-170. Harald Gell, Sylvain Paile (eds.) iMAF2014 - Lessons Learnt from the International Military Academies Forum 2014 Vienna, Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports of the Republic of Austria, 2014, 212 p. Available: http://maf-reichenau.at/iMAF2014/Sites/Photos_Films_iMAF.php Sylvain Paile Common Security and Defence Policy Module - External Evaluation Report Armis et Litteris 30, Theresianische Militärakademie - Wiener Neustadt, 2014, 77 p.

Sylvain Paile European Education and Training for Young Officers – The European Initiative for the Exchange of Young Officers, Inspired by Erasmus, Brussels, Publications of the European Security and Defence College, 2014, 38 p. Available: http://www.emilyo.eu/images/Uploaded_Documents/EU_Academies/erasmus_booklet_fin.pdf Sylvain Paile “The CSDP Olympiad from a Scientific Point of View” in Symeon Zambas (ed.), The 1st Common Security and Defence Policy Olympiad, Brussels, Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Cyprus, September 2013, p. 37. Sylvain Paile “Towards a European Understanding of Academic Education of the Military Officers?” in Hubert Annen, Can Nakkas, Juha Mäkinen (eds.), Thinking and Acting in Military Pedagogy, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, coll. Studies for Military Pedagogy, Military Science & Security Policy, vol. 12, 2013, pp. 279-290. Sylvain Paile, Harald Gell (eds.) 5 years of the European Initiative for the Exchange of Young Officers Inspired by Erasmus, Lessons Learnt from the International Military Academies Forum 2013 Vienna, Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports of the Republic of Austria, 2013, 120 p. Available: http://www.miles.ac.at/campus/iep/pdf/2013/2013-11-iMAF-Book.pdf Sylvain Paile Common Security and Defence Policy Modules 2012 - External Evaluation Report

Armis et Litteris 28, Theresianische Militärakademie - Wiener Neustadt, 2013, 80 p. André Dumoulin, Delphine Deschaux-Beaume, Sylvain Paile (eds.) Politiques de communication, médias et défense - L'OTAN et la PSDC: visibilité en Belgique et chez ses voisins (Communication policies, media and defence – NATO and CSDP: visibility in Belgium and neighbouring countries), Brussels, P.I.E. Peter Lang, coll. Non-Prolifération et Sécurité, vol. 7, 2013, 427 p.

Sylvain Paile “Erasmus militaire : européaniser la formation, former à l’européanisation” (“Military Erasmus: Europeanising the training, training to the Europeanization”) in Revue Défense Nationale, “Où va l’Europe militaire ?”, Summer 2013, pp. 145-152. Sylvain Paile “Transmission of Political-Military Information in Advanced Education: The Examples of the European Security and Defence College and the NATO Defence College” Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LXV, No. 4, Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations, Brussels, May 2013, pp. 55-76. Sylvain Paile “Towards the end of the uniform – Comprehensive approach to basic officer training” in The European Security and Defence Union, No. 15, February 2013. Sylvain Paile “European Initiative for the Exchange of Young Officers inspired by Erasmus” (pp.113-114) in Jochen Rehrl, Hans-Bernhard Weisserth (eds.), Handbook on CSDP, second edition, Vienna, Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports of the Republic of Austria, 2012. Sylvain Paile Common Security and Defence Policy Modules 2011 External Evaluation Report Armis et Litteris 27, Theresianische Militärakademie - Wiener Neustadt, 2012, 79 p.

Sylvain Paile (Ed.) Europe for the Future Officers, Officers for the Future Europe – Compendium of the European Military Officers Basic Education, Polish Ministry of National Defence, Department of Science and Military Education, Warsaw, September 2011, 226 p. Foreword by the Secretary of State Czeslaw Mroczek.

Sylvain Paile External Evaluation Report Über Die Common Security and Defence Policy Modules, Armis et Litteris 25, Theresianische Militärakademie - Wiener Neustadt, 2011, 69 p.

Sylvain Paile “L’ “Erasmus militaire”: carrefour entre éducation et PESD” (“Military Erasmus”: at crossroad between education and ESDP) (Chapter 19, pp.447-480) and André Dumoulin and Sylvain Paile, “Les publics cibles” (The target audiences)(Chapter 21, pp.495-516) in André Dumoulin, Philippe Manigart (Eds.), Opinions publiques et politique européenne de sécurité et de défense commune : acteurs, positions, evolutions (Public opinion and European CSDP: actors, positions, evolutions), Brussels, Bruylant, 2010. Sylvain Paile “Military Cultures and Education: Harmonizing or Standardizing Europe?” Univers Strategic, University Dimitrie Cantemir Institute of Security Studies, No. 2, June 2010

Pedro Ferreira da Silva, Sylvain Paile “Creating the Future Human Capabilities of the ESDP” Studia Diplomatica Vol. LXIII, No. 1, Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations, Brussels, 2010.

Sylvain Paile European Military Higher Education Stocktaking Report, Brussels, DG F Press, Council of the European Union, May 2010, 180 p. Available: http://www.emilyo.eu/scientific_publications

Pedro Ferreira da Silva, Sylvain Paile “A Small Step for Capability, A Significant Leap for Military Erasmus” Naçao e Defesa No. 125, Lisbon, Instituto da Defesa Nacional, May 2010.

André Dumoulin, Sylvain Paile, Delphine Resteigne “Des dynamiques culturelles de la PESD” (Cultural dynamics of ESDP) Cahier du CEREM, No. 7, “La Présidence Française de l’Union Européenne et la PESD”, February 2009. Available: https://www.irsem.fr/data/files/irsem/documents/document/file/1302/Cahier_du_cerem_n_07.pdf Sylvain Paile L’ Enseignement militaire à l’épreuve de l’Européanisation : Adaptation de la politique de l’enseignement pour l’Ecole royale militaire de Belgique aux évolutions de la PESD ( the Europeanisation of military education: adaptation of the education policy for the Royal Military School of Belgium to the evolution of the ESDP) Thématiques du Centre des Sciences Sociales de la Défense (C2SD), No. 19, Paris, January 2009, 62 p. Available: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/66656

1.3 European construction:

Quentin Michel, Maxime Habran, Sylvain Paile, David Stans La Construction Européenne, Entre idées reçues et faux-semblants, third edition (The European construction, between prejudges and pretences) Presses Universitaires de Liège, Liège, February 2013, 235 p. Quentin Michel (et al.) La Construction Européenne, Entre idées reçues et faux-semblants second edition (The European construction, between prejudges and pretences) Les Editions de l’Université de Liège, Liège, March 2010, 154 p.

Teresa Elola, Sophie Hanson, Quentin Michel, Sylvain Paile, Gregory Piet, David Stans La Construction Européenne, Entre idées reçues et faux-semblants (The European construction, between prejudges and pretences) Les Editions de l’Université de Liège, Liège, November 2008, 155 p.

1.4 Belgian politics:

Contribution to J. Beaufays, G. Matagne (eds.) La Belgique en mutation, Systèmes politiques et politiques publiques, (1968-2008), Brussels, Bruylant 2009 (tables of chapter II).

2. Scientific reports and notes

Sylvain Paile (report) Common Security and Defence Policy Module, Theresan Military Academy, External Evaluation Report, January 2015. Available: http://www.emilyo.eu/ Sylvain Paile (report) Common Security and Defence Policy Module, Theresan Military Academy, External Evaluation Report, January 2014. Available: http://www.emilyo.eu/ Sylvain Paile (report) Common Security and Defence Policy Modules, Theresan Military Academy, External Evaluation Report, January 2013. Available: http://www.emilyo.eu/

Sylvain Paile, under supervision of Pr. Catherine Fallon (report) L’assise sociétale de la solution de gestion des déchets radioactifs B et C et du combustible usé en droit, Processus socio-politique et gestion de Plan en univers controversé: le plan de gestion à long terme des déchets B&C – Axe 5, June 2012.

Sylvain Paile (report) Common Security and Defence Policy Modules, Theresan Military Academy, External Evaluation Report, December 2011. Available: http://www.emilyo.eu/

Sylvain Paile et al. (proceedings) “Green Paper: The dual-use export control system of the European Union: Ensuring security and competitiveness in a changing world – Contribution of the Chaudfontaine Group”, Chaudfontaine, 2011, 23p. Available: http://local.droit.ulg.ac.be/jcms/service/file/20120328135935_Chaudfontaine-Group-opinion-on-the-Green-Paper-finalfinal.pdf Sylvain Paile (report) Common Security and Defence Policy Modules, Theresan Military Academy, External Evaluation Report, January 2011. Available: http://www.emilyo.eu/ Sylvain Paile (report) Common Security and Defence Policy Modules – Spain 1-5 March 2010 - External Evaluation Report, April 2010. Available: http://www.emilyo.eu/ Sylvain Paile (report) External evaluation of the Lisbon European Security and Defence Seminar, September 2009. Available: http://www.emilyo.eu/ Sylvain Paile (note) The organisation of military higher education in Europe: Observations emerging from the replies to the questionnaires, August 2009. Available: http://www.emilyo.eu/ Sylvain Paile, under supervision of Pr.Quentin Michel (report) “Adaptation de la Politique de l’Enseignement pour l’Ecole royale militaire à l’évolution de la Politique Européenne de Sécurité Commune” (Adaptation of the Education Policy for the Royal Military School of Belgium to the Evolution of the ESDP), May 2008. Report mentioned in the Stocktaking of existing exchanges and exchange programmes of national military officers during their initial education and training (Document 12843/08 COSDP 731) of the General Secretariat of the Council, Brussels September 2008. This latter document is attached to the Declaration (of the Ministers of Defence of the European Union) on the European Initiative for the Exchange of Young Officers, Inspired from Erasmus (document 5155/1/08), 10 November 2008.

Teresa Elola, Sylvain Paile, Grégory Piet, under the direction of Quentin Michel (note) “Analyse comparative du traité de Lisbonne au regard du traité de Nice et du projet de traité Constitutionnel” (Comparative analysis of the Lisbon treaty with regard to the Nice Treaty and the project of Constitutional treaty), original version of November 6th, 2007. Available: http://www.depscpo.ulg.ac.be/eu/documents/Version01.pdf Sylvain Paile, under the direction of Quentin Michel (note) “Commentaire de l’accord intervenu entre l’Inde et les Etats-Unis sur la coopération dans le domaine du nucléaire civil” (Comment of the US-India deal on the civil nuclear co-operation). December 2006 (updated August 2007). Available: http://www.depscpo.ulg.ac.be/eu/documents/Noteactualitedecembre2006.pdf

Sylvain Paile, under the direction of Quentin Michel (note) “Le Mémorandum d’entente sur la coopération dans le domaine des applications nucléaires civiles, signé entre la France et la Libye le 26 juillet 2007” (The Memorandum on the civil nuclear co-operation signed by France and Libya on July 26th, 2007). August 2007. Available: http://www.depscpo.ulg.ac.be/eu/news_np_fr.html

3. Scientific and professional conferences

3.1 Non-proliferation policies:

- 2 June – 4 June 2019, Chaudfontaine: Communication during the conference “A decade of evolution of dual-use trade control concepts: strengthening or weakening non-proliferation”, University of Liège – European Commission. Communication titled “Controlling other items with dual-use trade control principles and mechanisms”.

- 8 April – 10 April 2018, Chaudfontaine: Communication during the conference “Do

academic activities contribute to WMD proliferation”, University of Liège – European Commission. Communication titled “How academia considers the WMD-proliferation risk in research and teaching activities: testifying, analyzing, proposing”.

- 25 October – 27 October 2017, Livingstone: International Atomic Energy Agency

Regional training course on the development and drafting of regulations to support national nuclear security regimes.

- 15 December – 16 December 2015, Doha: Communication and moderation of the round table titled “What is transhipment? Transit and transshipment: interpretations and implications” during the Seminar on best practices for nonproliferation transit/transhipment controls co-organised by the United States of America Department of State and the Government of Qatar.

- 8 November – 10 November 2015: Chaudfontaine: Organisation and contribution to the

conference “Sensitive trade control and sanctions: implementing embargoes and penalties in case of violations”, Université de Liège – European Commision. Communication titled “The enforcement of trade control provisions in France”.

- 10 February 2015, Karlsruhe: Lecture on the “Nuclear Security and Dual-Use Trade

Controls”, European Union Security Training (EUSECTRA) detection training for front line officers, European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Transuranium Elements.

- 28 September – 30 September 2014, Chaudfontaine: Organisation and contribution to

the conference “Clarifying concepts and parameters of essential elements of a trade

control system: opportunities for Africa”, University of Liège – ENCO – European Commission. Communication with Verena Ehold and Ivana Micic titled “National vs. Regional Approach”.

- 8 December – 10 December 2013, Chaudfontaine: Organisation and contribution to the

conference “Universal trade control regime versus regional export control model(s)”, University of Liège – European Commission. Communication titled “EU Regulation + French regulations = An exportable control model?”.

- 17 June – 21 June 2013, Tunis: International Atomic Energy Agency mission, for the

Government of Tunisia, for the review and evaluation of the national regulatory and technical capacities for combating illicit trafficking in nuclear material.

- 24 April – 26 April 2013, Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency consultants

meeting for the “review of instructional material for NS 17 import/export and transit control mechanism”.

- 27 February 2013, Brussels: conference titled “Le contrôle du commerce nucléaire:

comment concilier l'inconciliable (?)” (Nuclear trade control: How to conciliate the irreconcilable) with Quentin Michel, Académie Royale de Belgique – Collège Belgique.

- 18 November – 20 November 2012, Chaudfontaine: Organisation and contribution to

the conference “European dual-use trade controls: Beyond materiality and borders”, University of Liège – European Commission. Communication titled “France”.

- 8 December – 9 December 2011, Rabat: European Union Outreach mission, for the

Government of the Kingdom of Morocco, of assistance for the elaboration of regulatory acts for the implementation of dual-use export controls.

- 25 September – 27 September 2011, Chaudfontaine: Organisation and contribution to

the conference on the “Green Paper: The dual-use export control system of the European Union: Ensuring security and competitiveness in a changing world”, University of Liège. Communication titled “Information Exchange”.

- 13 October – 15 October 2010, Chaudfontaine: Organisation and contribution to the

conference on “The responsibility of industrial operators in trade”, University of Liege, under the aegis of the Belgian EU Presidency”. Communication titled: “The French System of Control of Sensitive Items’ Trade: From Security to Competitive Security”.

- 1 October - 5 October 2007, Brussels: Session secretary of the round-table “non-

proliferation of nuclear weapons” during the Inter Jura Congress of the International Nuclear Law Association (AIDN-INLA). Drafting and circulation of the session’s report, published in AIDN-INLA, Nuclear Interjura 2007 Actes du congrès-Proceedings, Bruylant, Brussels, 2008.

3.2 European military education – security and defence:

- 14 November 2018, Brussels: Presentation and moderation during the CSDP Education and Training Conference 2018 (EEAS), session titled “Launching of the European Doctoral School on CSDP”.

- 14 June 2018, Bucharest: Key note during the International Scientific Conference of the Doctoral Schools on the “New challenges related to internal security within the European Union” organised by the Police Academy “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, titles “A

European Doctoral School on the Common Security and Defence Policy”.

- 7 November 2017, Brussels: Communication during the CSDP Education and Training Conference 2017 (EEAS, Egmont Institute), titled “A European Doctoral School on CSDP”.

- 10 March – 13 March 2015, Maribor: Key notes during the conference “Defence Resources Management: “Transition of Military Education Systems in SEE II”, organised by RACVIAC Centre for Security Cooperation and the Slovenian Military Schools Centre titled “Europeanising the initial officers’ education: some challenges, many opportunities” and “Modelling the European initial officers’ education and training systems”.

- 23 June – 27 June 2014, Reichenau: Key note during the International Military

Academies Forum (iMAF 2014) (Ministry of Defence of Austria), titled “(Tentative) conclusions of the conference”.

- 26 November – 27 November 2013, Berlin: Communication during the Berlin Security

Conference 2013 (Behörden Spiegel), titled “The officer cadets: training to crisis management, training for managing crisis”.

- 23 September – 27 September 2013, Reichenau: Key note during the International

Military Academies Forum (iMAF 2013) (Ministry of Defence of Austria), titled “(Tentative) conclusions of the conference”.

- 17 November 2012, Astana: Communication during the seminar “Pros and cons of the

Bologna process for the military higher education in Kazakhstan” (Ministry of Defence of Kazakhstan), titled “Pros and cons of the Bologna process for the military higher education - The experience of the European Union”.

- 21 March 2011, Paris: president of the round-table No. 4 “Leadership Training in

Foreign Military Schools”, military schools inter-forces seminar (SIGEM 2011).

- 19 February 2011, Brussels: “Exchanges in officers’ education: Erasmus and beyond”, conference for the Special Division of the Royal Military Academy of Belgium.

- 10 January 2011, Liège: “L’Europe dans le monde d’aujourd’hui” – “EU in the world

today”, course of the University Area of Liège, module on “Society and Economy”.

- 10 December 2009 – 11 December 2009, Trollhätan: Communication during the conference Vilär (Verksamhetintegrerat-lârande) (work-integrated learning), titled “European Military Higher Education: War-Integrated Learning”.

- 8 May 2009 – 9 May 2009, Sremski: Communication during the conference of the

Centre for Civil-Military Relations of Serbia (CCMR), titled “Military cultures and education: harmonizing or standardizing Europe?”.

- 13 November 2008 – 14 November 2008, Paris: Communication during the Seminar

organised by the French Presidency of the European Union on the exchange of young officers, titled “The Bologna Process in the Education of the Military Officers: the Road to a Common Culture of Defence in Europe”.

- 11 December 2008 – 12 December 2008, Vilnius: Communication during the

conference of the Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF), titled “Towards a

European Culture of Defence in Officers’ Education: The Initiative for the Exchange of Young Officers Inspired From Erasmus”.

- 19 May 2008 – 22 May 2008, Helsinki: Communication during the annual conference

of the International Association for Military Pedagogy (IAMP), titled “Towards a European understanding of the academic education of the military officers?” co-presented with Commandant Bruno Royer de Véricourt (French MoD – French EU Presidency cell).

- October 2007 – December 2007: Research visits to military institutes in the frame of the comparative study for the research: France, Germany, Portugal, Lithuania, Romania and Finland.

- July 2007: Presentation of a poster: L’Ecole royale militaire et les Ecoles de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan : pôle de recherche sur la sécurité européenne (the RMS and the Saint-Cyr Schools, research pole on European security), during the Belgian Defence days in Coxyde. Available: http://www.rma.ac.be/rmadotnet/scsc/reportages/Saint_cyr/

4. Academic courses and training provided

Training on strategic trade control (EU Partner-to Partner programme on dual-use trade control) “Import/Export and transit control mechanism and regime” -20h- Master in Nuclear Security, University of National and World Economy – International Atomic Energy Agency Common Security and Defence Policy Training “Train-the-Trainers” (European Security and Defence College)

“Introduction to EU politics” (Pr. Quentin Michel – Sylvain Paile) -20h- Bachelor in Political Sciences

Elaboration of a chapter “Sensitive items export control” for the Autonomous Knowledge Unit No. 8 of the European Security and Defence College, “Non-proliferation of weapons of mass-destruction” “Politique Européenne de Sécurité et de Défense Commune” - “European Common Security and Defence Policy” (Dr. André Dumoulin) -30h- Master in Political Science

“Séminaire de lecture de textes en anglais” – “English text reading seminar” (Pr. Quentin Michel) -45h- first year of Bachelor in Political Sciences

“Politiques européennes” - “European policies” (Pr. Quentin Michel) -15h- Master in Communication and third year of Bachelor in Political Sciences

“Military Pedagogy – Comparative Education”, (Pr. Juha Mäkinen – National Defence University of Finland) – Master in Military pedagogy

5. Newsletters and contributions to media

Stéphanie Heng, Sylvain Paile-Calvo, « 10 ans de l’ « Erasmus Militaire », L’Echo, 27 March 2018.

Link : https://www.lecho.be/opinions/carte-blanche/10-ans-de-l-erasmus-militaire/9995807.html Edition of the “Chaudfontaine Newsletter” for the European Studies Unit – University of Liège. Four newsletters per year. Available: http://local.droit.ulg.ac.be/jcms/service/index.php?serv=49

Edition of the “Mobility Newsletter - European mobility of young officers and trainers…” for the Secretariat of the European Security and Defence College. Four newsletters per year (starting February 2011). Available: http://www.emilyo.eu/.