The closing ceremony of the 93rd normal general staff course took place in the setting of the historic Dante Alighieri Library, in the presence of the relatives of the attendees, at the end of which the certificates of regular staff course and Master of Strategic Studies and International Security.
After approximately 5 months of teaching activity, Admiral Giuseppe Schivardi, commander of the Institute of Military and Maritime Studies, awarded the Neptune badge to the 29 military attendees, including an officer of the Tunisian Navy and 3 civilian university students.
The badge testifies to the completion of an advanced training path, a symbol that embodies the great commitment and energy expended during a period "dense" in content and increasingly characterized by applied activities and interventions held by experts from the military and industrial academic world, both national and international.
This latest edition was also characterised by many activities including the fourteenth edition of the Trans Regional Seapower Symposium, the Joint Forces Module and the ceremony of the National Unity Day and Armed Forces Day of November 4, held in the presence of the President of the Republic. Renewed and inserted in the context of the module of Operations Planning even the appointment with the wargame, an essential tool in which the participants have tried their hand, operating on a new and stimulating scenario created, in-house, by the discipline's assistant.
The second edition of the Interforce module has been extended to last two weeks and enriched with new topics that take into account the pressing need for an increasingly interforce approach.
In the closing speech, Admiral Schivardi, Prof. Ferrari of Ca' Foscari University (Director of the Master) and Captain Paolo Gregoretti (Director of the Institute's courses) underlined the effectiveness of this synergy between the academic and military worlds, which has given life to an innovative Master capable of training professionals able to analyze modern international scenarios and support decision-making processes.
The attendees will now return to their respective commands with a new set of skills that will be immediately put to the test in every area of their employment while the course management staff is already preparing for the next one. regular staff course valid as a second level Master's degree in strategic studies and international security (SSSI), which is scheduled to start in the last week of February.
