The Officer Reference Curriculum writing team will hold its sixth workshop in Sibiu, Romania. The purpose of this writing workshop is to develop a new Reference Curriculum focusing on professionalizing the officer corps and will be taught at various defense academies and security studies institutes.

Since 2008, together with the Partnership for Peace Consortium (PfPC) of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes, DEEP has developed a number of different curricula – designed for employment by defense education institutions. They are intended to provide partner and Allied countries with in-depth learning objectives and curriculum support for academic courses in professional military education (PME) schools.

NATO has noted that these reference curricula can serve as tools for partner and Allied countries in the planning and development of courses, modules and programs for professional Officer and Non-Commissioned Officer and the enhancement of intellectual interoperability between NATO and partners.