10/02/2026

The Agency for Education and Professional Training was visited today by the new Head of the NATO Defence Education Enhancement Programme (NATO DEEP), Branka Petek, accompanied by her associates. She has taken over the position from Pavel Anastasov, with whom the Agency previously maintained active cooperation in the implementation of activities in the field of Counter-Terrorism Reference Curriculum (CTRC), aimed at effective and efficient strategic-level education and training programmes based on NATO’s Counter-Terrorism Reference Curriculum.

During the meeting with the Director of the Agency for Education and Professional Training, Marko Vujević, Deputy Director Predrag Šupljeglav, Assistant Director for Training Elvir Velić, and Head of the Support Department Dunja Galić, Ms Petek was briefed on current developments related to the implementation of the Agency’s statutory responsibilities.

As part of her inaugural visit, the new Head of the NATO DEEP Programme confirmed the continuation of the implementation of the DEEP Programme and all programme activities agreed at the NATO Review Conference held in October last year. It was also confirmed that the NATO ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning) project will be implemented in April this year. The project focuses on the introduction of modern technological standards into the Agency’s teaching processes, including digitised lectures, the transfer of part of the training into a 3D virtual environment, and the introduction of similar ADL-based technologies.

Director Vujević expressed his gratitude to NATO representatives for the cooperation achieved to date and conveyed his satisfaction with the development of partnership relations with the NATO Alliance. “Joint projects contribute to the development of the Agency for Education and Professional Training, which, through training and professional development programmes, strives to provide police officers in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the most modern educational programmes, thereby strengthening the overall security system in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Vujević emphasised.

The cooperation between the Agency and NATO is conducted within the framework of NATO’s Defence Capacity Building Package for Bosnia and Herzegovina (NATO DEEP – Defence Education Enhancement Programme), which was expanded in 2023 to include the Agency for Education and Professional Training.