NATO to Audit Ukraine’s Military Education System

NATO will conduct an institutional audit of Ukrainian higher military educational institutions, which will be a step toward recognizing diplomas in Alliance member states.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported on this.

The audit of the Ministry of Defense’s higher educational institutions, funded by Latvia, will start on May 1 and will be performed in several stages, the first of which will be a self-assessment procedure.

Ukrainian military universities will be provided with compliance and evaluation criteria, based on which they must prepare reports and complete questionnaires regarding their alignment with NATO education system standards.

Between June and September, experts from the North Atlantic Alliance in the field of military education will review the prepared reports and questionnaires. In the fall, a NATO expert group will visit Ukraine to meet with representatives of the military education system.

The final audit report is expected in December 2025.

A successful outcome of the foreign experts’ evaluation will enable the certification of professional military education courses according to NATO standards. NATO member states will recognize completion documents for these courses. This step will enhance the interoperability of Ukrainian military education structures with those of NATO.

“The results of the institutional audit of the military education system will provide an objective assessment of the implementation of the recommendations following the 2020 audit. Professional military education in Ukraine is gradually reaching a new stage of development,” Volodymyr Mirnenko, Director of the Department of Military Education and Science at the Ministry of Defense, noted.

Previously, the Ministry announced plans to certify professional military education courses according to NATO standards in 2026.

Senior Ukrainian officers regularly attend courses at the NATO Defense College in Rome (Italy) and the NATO School in Oberammergau (Germany).

Contacts with these Alliance educational institutions proved useful during the establishment of a new multinational faculty at the National Defense University of Ukraine.

It was recently reported that one of the NATO countries intends to purchase Ukraine’s Delta battlefield situational awareness system.