<p>The <b>NATO SCHOOL Oberammergau</b> in southern Germany is <a href="/pages/w/112929972051497">NATO</a>'s key training facility on the operational level, the only one of its kind in the world. The School started with two courses in 1953 and now offers over 100 different courses to Alliance members and partners on subjects related to NATO's policies, strategies, missions and operations. In 2013 the School celebrates its 60th anniversary under the slogan "60 Years of Teaching Excellence".</p><h2>Overview</h2><p>The NATO School Oberammergau conducts multinational military education and individual training in support of current and developing NATO operations, strategy, policy, doctrine, and procedures. This includes cooperation, dialogue, and information exchange, including education and training, with military and civilian personnel from non-NATO nations.</p><p>Since 1953, more than 200,000 officers, non-commissioned officers and civilians have attended courses at the School. Annually, about 10,000 students and conference attendees visit the School.</p><h2>Curriculum</h2><p>The NATO School Oberammergau provides courses of instruction in six main disciplines, mostly one week in duration, in the fields of: <ul><li> Intelligence</li><li> Cooperative Security</li><li> Joint Operations</li><li> Joint Plans</li><li> Protection </li><li> Non Commissioned Officer Programmes</li></ul></p><p> Primarily focused on individual education, NATO School Oberammergau also supports many aspects of collective training, exercises, experimentation and operations. Education and training is centred on combined and operational art while offering Mobile Education and Training Teams, web based Advanced Distributed Learning and of course resident courses and seminars. Moreover, the School has become a popular destination for many defence and security related conferences.</p><h2>Stakeholders</h2><p><a href="/pages/w/109389689079061">Allied Command Transformation</a> (ACT) provides guidance for the School's quality assurance with <a href="/pages/w/106043842769769">Allied Command Operations</a> (ACO – also known as <a href="/pages/w/109658245727571">SHAPE</a>) providing most of the curriculum. The courses are continually revised and updated to reflect current developments in SHAPE and across NATO as a whole.</p>