Building a Strategy for ESARDA - Education, Training and Knowledge Management

This document proposes a new strategy for how the ESARDA organization could work with education, training and knowledge management in nuclear safeguards. With this document we want to anchor these ideas within the organization and its management, in order to have a broad support for this initiative. We propose to activate all ESARDA working groups in the process of identifying, selecting and preparing material for module based education and training. ESARDA could then more effectively broaden its education and training activities and strengthen the connections with academia. In this way, we would also create a way to export knowledge on nuclear safeguards to nuclear education programs on the European level. We propose to create a task force that addresses a set of identified questions; examples are how to implement the new strategy, how to interact with academia and young professionals and how to develop, maintain, and structure the educational modules. By the end of 2015, the findings of the task force should be presented to the ESARDA management in order to be able to make a more informed decision on how to proceed with the new strategy.