23.2.2023
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Official Journal of the European Union
L 58/2041 EUROPEAN EXTERNAL ACTION SERVICE
CHAPTER 2 2 — OTHER OPERATING EXPENDITURE (cont'd)
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(cont'd) — Several projects can be run in parallel to the study in order to test possible features of the European Diplomatic Academy in practice and evaluate their impact and inform the study, such as a European Diplomatic Academy pilot course / dry run consisting of a two-month residential pilot programme for a selected group of 60 recruits and trainee diplomats from Member States and Union institutions; and ‘Erasmus for Diplomats’ allowing some 60 young diplomats in their first years of service to spend up to two months in the Foreign Service of another Member State or in the EEAS, including a randomly selected Union delegation.
This pilot course of ‘Erasmus for Diplomats’ can also explore the possibility for EEAS staff to spend up to two months at headquarters in Member States different from the one of their nationality.
If these pilot courses are successful, they can lead to a one-year academic programme.
The pilot project will be able to finance the study, under the actual conditions, of the creation of such a European Diplomatic Academy, and the running of these two pilot courses as described above.
Extending the pilot project by one year will provide a more solid basis, thereby ensuring sustainability of the project.
The aim of the second phase of the pilot project will be two-fold: — Through an extension of the study, provide more analysis and options for the creation of a European Diplomatic Academy by providing a training needs analysis, and by looking in particular into target groups of a future academy, including the possibility of those interested in becoming Union diplomats in the future who are not diplomats of a Member State.
The study should also analyse the preparation for possible entry into the EEAS and Union delegations. — Organise a second pilot academic year (following on the one foreseen in the first phase of the pilot project), in order to incorporate its results, as of the dimension of the participation of diplomats of Member States in the future European Diplomatic Academy.
Participants should, in principle, as during the first phase, be around 60 recruit and trainee diplomats from Member States and Union institutions.
With this second year, the two elements of the pilot project, i.e. the study and the pilot academic programme as mentioned above, should deliver the necessary robust evidence base and analysis concerning the legal and administrative set-up, delivery model, governing bodies and budgetary requirements for a future European Diplomatic Academy.
The outcomes of the analysis should refer also to the possible locations for the European Diplomatic Academy, which could be situated in different existing academic and diplomatic training institutions in the Union, highly specialized in Union external action, in order to gain from their academic and practical experience in the field.
Legal basis
Pilot project within the meaning of Article 58(2) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, amending Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) No 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1309/ 2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 (OJ L 193, 30.7.2018, p. 1).