Tasks and Objectives
On 20 June 1990, the Federal Cabinet decided to establish the Federal College for Security Studies, coupled with the directive:
“The Federal College is assigned the mission to organise courses and seminars for the advanced training of present and future leaders from federal and Land ministries and other areas having a stake in security issues, so as to foster a comprehensive, interministerial understanding of the long-term security interests of the Federal Republic of Germany as part of the community of democratic nations, thus enabling participants to take these interests appropriately into account.”
The Federal College for Security Studies is Germany’s highest-ranking interministerial institution and is tasked with conveying the contents of the comprehensive security concept.
This comprehensive concept of security is imparted in a six-month “Course on Security Policy” as well as in brief seminars, media seminars, lecture events and numerous other fora of relevance for security policy.
Such events are aimed at fostering consensus on security policy issues and at intensifying networks of relations between high-ranking representatives of the executive and leading public figures.