Multinational Centre of Excellence for Mountain Warfare

The Multinational Centre of Excellence for Mountain Warfare is one of NATO's Centres of Excellence. It is located in Bohinjska Bela, Slovenia. It is "responsible for training individuals and units for operation in the mountains and other terrains difficult to pass".
Currently, the centre is not fully accredited; full accreditation is planned for 2015.

Overview

MN COEMW is based on the Slovenian Military Mountain School, which was formed in 1996. In 2004 school was chosen as site of future COE.
On 15 November 2011, Slovenia signed a cooperation agreement with Austria, Hungary, and Italy regarding training of soldiers from these three countries in Bohinjska Bela; with this, the Centre became a multinational resource. Several other countries – Germany, Turkey, Canada, and Croatia – are currently planning to apply for membership.

Mission

The primary mission of the centre is "to support the transformation of the forces and assets of mountain warfare". The four core working areas are as follows: education and training, doctrine and concept development, capability development and support to experimentation and lessons identified and lessons learned processes.
Currently, the centre provides the following courses: military mountaineering, combat decision-making in the mountains, small unit tactics in the mountains, surviving in the mountains, military alpine climbing, military mountain rescue, and military mountain guiding.