Programme Design Process

A programme design working group coordinated by Frontex and consisting of representatives of the academic institutions and experts in border guard education and training, as well as operational experts from over 20 Member States and Partner Organisations were working collaboratively to develop the programme, since early 2012.

The Programme development benefits of a rich and extensive experience (over 80 academic and border guard experts from: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, UK, and DCAF, EASO, FRA, INTERPOL, OSCE, UNHCR, IOM).

Draft programme outcomes were developed from the European Sectoral Qualifications Framework for Border Guarding level 7 (master’s level) and these outcomes are driving the award structure and module structure. The SQF competence profiles, validated by MS / SAC are an exceptional foundation framework to build a JDSP relevant to organisational learning requirements as they were validated across EU by more than 30 organisations with border guard responsibilities and other partner organisations. The SQF was endorsed by the Management Board of Frontex on the 28th of November 2012. As an overarching European reference framework for all border guard learning, the SQF for Border Guarding is aligned with the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Leaning (EQF) at levels 4 – 7.

The objective of using this framework in designing the EJMSBM was to facilitate the integration of common standards in the field of mid- to high-level management training; to ensure that the learning is authentic to the operational realities and addressing the job competences and to promote European good practice in training design and development, according to the highest standards of higher education in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The global programme learning outcomes are derived from the SQF (mostly level 7) and the learning outcomes for each of the 10 modules are derived from the programme learning outcomes.