About Us

Initially, the National Academy of Security and Defense Planning (NASDP) was conceived as a mere training center for the NASDP, an innovative hub entirely a private enterprise, as a supplier of defense and safety solutions, and also as a facility of ongoing professional mentoring of the adult preparing him/her for the state-owned industry and commerce in Romania. The center was established by the beginning of 2011 courtesy of a team of experts knowledgeable in Euro-Atlantic issues, as a standalone, informal group, endowing legal status in November 2013, for further bolstering the local and regional staffing in need on law enforcement where private security issues are involved. Things developed however and here we are today, able to provide both Romanian and foreign milieus risk assessment solutions, prevention solutions, configuration patterns and ways fight the effects of natural disasters, calamities, menaces, or hostile actions; we can also provide security studies and research in most fields of the modern society, as kickback to the need of serenity and safety.

National Academy of Security and Defense Planning (NASDP) Having been fully Accredited by Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission and International Organization for Security and Intelligence, Canada and International Center for Criminal Intelligence, USA). Furthermore National Academy of Security and Defense Planning (NASDP) is a treaty partners with National Council of Scientific Research in Defense (CNCSA) and officially affiliated with the National Council for Scientific Research in Higher Education (CNCSIS), The Ministry of Education and Research, Romania and is processed to be granted the statute “special council” by the European Council, the OSCE, and NATO. NASDP founding principles are based on the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights; per article 26, NASDP strongly believes that Higher Education is a Human Right and Education Rights. The University has implemented a paradigm shifting educational model for its academic programs that have allowed it to move closer to this goal through the self-empowerment of its students, decentralization of the learning process, personalized open curriculum design, a sustainable learning modern, developing the 11 core elements of the Human Condition of our programs and the utilization of the quasi-infinite knowledge through the use of information technology combined with our own capacity to find solutions to all types of global issues, dynamic problems, and those of individuals and multidisciplinary teams.

The NASDP endorses as its main target the promotion, development and implementation of programs, projects, models, and standards for common security and defense, diplomatic education, and for the individual, in order to create a real security awareness culture, defense awareness, and counter-reaction to crisis situations, via research, informative sessions and education, in educational partnership with institutions, both state-based and private agencies, as well as medical, military, national and local police, law, religious institutions, including both governmental and non-governmental organizations, with the purpose of proactively developing a community that really cares about the security and safety of its fellow citizens and of promoting knowledge, respect, and mutual trust between members of society and the institutions of the European and worldwide community.

All of NASDP’s activities are based on the seven principles: abiding by the Romanian Constitution and legislation; integrity; well-governing; excellence; dignity; team work; and innovation.

NASDP operates in the intelligence and security fields: identification, evaluation, research, prognosis, recruitment, professional training, and active protection.

Basically ,NASDP is to be taken as a center in the security field designed in observance of the applicable international profile standards, developing procedures meant to prevent and fight any form of violence (international terrorism, inter-state criminal activities, social turmoil, etc.), but also the development of those mechanisms favoring an encapsulation of those necessary elements at the society level where information handling and the logistic of the collective defense are concerned, approached, of course, from the angle of integrated security, as a systematic concept.

Targets in security education and culture

stimulating interest for the intelligence field, diplomatic culture, international relations, public communication skills, the security awareness culture /education, via mass-media and other promotional means oriented towards these ends
Editing, publishing, and distributing informative and scientific data, books, magazines, manifests, and other printed material and audio-visual content
establishing contacts and cooperation on a permanent basis with scientific entities both domestic and foreign, with leading experts in the field, and with other organizations – governmental institutions or non-governmental ones that develop interests in security awareness culture, defense policy, diplomatic education, and related topics
stirring curiosity, endorsing, backing, and training both private and legal persons who wish to get familiar and become knowledgeable in the field of security, personal protection, educational management of the security awareness culture, and also to whoever feels the inner urge to sample the security awareness culture

Aims and general lines of action

joining projects, conventions, and scientific exchanges focused on security and endorsed by higher educational institutions, local and central public authorities, and also entities having assignments in the field of national security
Founding a Civil Police Force in partnership with public authorities and abiding by both internal and European legislation, as a must of the administrative decentralization
Foundation of the Commission for Research and Development of the Information Society
Foundation of the Center of Strategic Affairs and Defense Policy, a project with the purpose of forming the next ambassadors, and also of implementing in the world a real diplomatic culture.

The NASDP Academic Centre is organizing conventions and seminaries. The National Academy of Security and Defense Planning (NASDP) provides solutions to security risk issues and evaluations of the global threats in order to identify internal problems for national defense systems and increase the defense capacity, as part of an integrated strategy.