21-COP-0012 - Combat Mindset Training for Romanian Military Students
Academia Fortelor Aeriene Henri Coanda ·Romania
About this project
<p>The project has a strong innovative character in the context of military higher education because it aims to introduce combat mindset training for military students, for the first time in Romania.<br> This type of training was successfully developed in the Norwegian army by the DS partner and will be accompanied by the adaptation in Romanian of a psychological assessment tool, The Multidimensional Self-Control Scale.<br> The main target group consists of military students and the staff of the project promoter, and the secondary target group of military psychologists.</p>
Bilateral cooperation results
The Norwegian partner's contribution was prominent in all project activities. In the case of this project, the involvement of the partner from the donor country was essential, due to the unique expertise of their experts in testing and mental training of the military. The main results include: - translation and adaptation of the Multidimensional Self-Control Scale in Romanian; - organization of the MSCS in military staff evaluation conference, held in Bucharest on October 13-14, 2022, at National Military Circle; - translation in Romanian of Combat Mindset and Mental Conditioning. Instructor Course (MCIC) and organization of Train-the-Trainer session based on this manual, held in Brașov on October 17-18, 2022 (with the attendance of 38 military teaching staff and instructors belonging to 5 Romanian military universities, and 14 military students); - organization of the final conference (3-5 Aug 2023) by PP, with the involvement of one keynote speaker, the project manager from P1; - the contribution as co-authors of the Norwegian experts in four papers published in academic journals, and in the presentation of the project results through communications held within two online conferences (organized by the Romanian Academy, Iasi branch).
Project partners
- University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) Donor project partner· Norway
- Asociatia Societatea de Psihologie Militara Project partner· Romania