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The inaugural workshop for NATO’s Regional Endeavour 2025 series has just been held in Rabat, Morocco, from 28 April to 2 May. Organized by Allied Joint Force Command Naples (JFC Naples) and hosted by the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces, the event was opened by Brigadier Aziz Idrissi Yazani, head of the Moroccan 2nd Bureau, and Rear Admiral Thorsten Marx, Assistant Chief of Staff J9 at JFC Naples. The opening ceremony was also attended by the Defence Attachés from France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Tunisia, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Regional Endeavour 2025 marks a transition from JFCNP’s successful Regional Exercise which ran from 2014 until 2024, and focused upon NATO’s Exercise Planning Process. The new Regional Endeavour capacity building initiative is designed to enhance cooperation between NATO and regional partners whilst providing a broader syllabus. The sequence of four annual workshops are hosted in one of JFCNP’s three partner regions starting this year in North Africa. This rotational format enables the host nation and regional partners to better focus the workshop content to meet their regional needs and challenges. On completion at the end of 2025, Regional Endeavour 2026 will move to the Gulf Region and then rotate to Southeastern Europe during 2027.

With participants from Jordan, Malta, Moldova, Morocco, Tunisia and the African Union and including instructional support from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the first workshop, which focused on Interoperability and Standardisation has been judged by the students as a success.  The week-long workshop combined interactive sessions and discussions tailored to meet the interests of the course participants in relation to NATO’s Operational Capability Concept Education and Feedback concept.  Looking ahead, the following three workshops during 2025 will focus upon Civil-Military Cooperation (June), Strategic Communications (September), and Crisis Management and Disaster Response (November). Each workshop brings together students from NATO’s regional partners to work together through a series of lectures and practical events. This supports NATO’s partnership efforts to help strengthen mutual understanding, develop regional expertise and foster long-term cooperation both with NATO and between regional nations.