An Advanced Training Course (ATC) is designed to enable specialists in NATO countries to share their expertise with trainees from Partner and Mediterranean Dialogue countries. The ATC is not intended to be lecture-driven, but to be of a very intensive interactive nature. Like other mechanisms, ATCs have two co-directors, one from a NATO country and one from a Partner country of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) or a country of the Mediterranean Dialogue. It is envisaged that four to six specialists should be selected from NATO countries and 30 to 50 trainees from Partner and Mediterranean Dialogue countries. Applications are invited in all areas of the Science for Peace and Security Programme but are particularly welcome in Human and Societal Dynamics, an area of the Programme which encourages innovative social science research approaches in addressing issues of international security in the contemporary world. In all cases, proposed topics must relate to NATO's current security agenda. Application forms are now available on this website.