The centre is a multinational sponsored, NATO accredited and provides innovative and timely advice, and subject matter expertise on CIMIC for both civilian and military customers. LOcated in Netherlands, Enschede.
The Concepts, Interoperability and Capabilities Branch (CIC) of the CCOE is to provide Subject matter expertise in the field of NATO Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) in order to support the transformational and operational requests of the Strategic Commands, the Sponsoring Nations and other Customers. This includes the contribution to the development of CIMIC-policy, -doctrine and -standards. In order to fulfil this mission CIC considers the activities of NATO, crucial non-NATO actors like International Organisations (IOs) particularly UN and EU, non- NATO Nations and essential Governmental Organisations (GOs) and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) as well as develops the interfaces and relationships to other adjacent military functions.