Mapping of Training Systems

In the first stage of the INTEL project (2021-2023), inadequacy of formal training frameworks was identified as a challenge to tackle labour and skills shortages. To help assess the sector’s formal basic and additional specific training frameworks at national level, CoESS conducted, as part of the second stage of the project (2024-2026), desktop research and an online survey among employer group representatives and company stakeholders from 26 European countries, including 23 EU Member States, to assemble data on training systems and curricula in the private security services. The research was conducted from January to December 2025.

This report includes the information collected during this research, good practices that could help national Social Partners strengthen the sector’s ability to create attractive training frameworks and meet future skills needs, and a table providing an overview of different national systems.

The project fully respects the sole competence of EU Member States in regulating the private security sector and training, aiming instead to provide a structured evidence base and sectoral Social Partner recommendations for enhancing training quality in light of labour and skills shortages, evolving security missions, and technological change.