The article presents the nature and assumptions of the Central European Forum on Military Education (CEFME) from the perspective of chronological order of the most important events. The authors of the article are trying to investigate whether regular participation of decision-makers in CEFME meetings has an impact on the condition of higher military education in Central European countries. A deeper insight in details of CEFME discussions allows for distinguishing multifarious areas of concern, such as contemporary challenges of military education, the Bologna Process in higher military education system, the Military Erasmus exchange scheme for students and academic staff innovations related to using advanced technologies, or proposals of joint strategic module curriculum. The wide spectrum of issues predetermines the CEFME as a unique initiative.
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Twenty years have passed since the establishment of National Defence University in Warsaw. At that time the organizational structure included a didactic – research unit dealing with economic, defence and logistic problems, i.e. Defence Economics Institute (1990-1997), which later changed its name into Institute of Economic Sciences (1997-2001), and later, due to uniting a few organisational units within the University, into Institute of Economics and Logistics (2001-2008), and currently (since 2008) it is called Logistics Institute. During these 20 years the Institute has fulfilled its role. It has educated military and civilian personnel in the field of economic sciences. About 2,000 Masters of Arts in Economics have graduated from the university. Around 800 have completed postgraduate economic studies and approximately 40 received Doctor’s degree in military sciences in the field of defence economics, security economics and logistics. As refers to publications, the Institute’s workers published 105 books. Some of them have a monographic character, some were used for the didactic purposes. The flagship areas of research concerned military expenditures, economic – defence potential, defence economy, logistic support of operations, logistic in crisis situations. The thoughts developed by the Institute served the development of science and also prompted practical solutions. The Institute has become a specialist scientific and didactic unit in the area of unique specialities in the country such as defence economics and logistics in crisis situations.
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