title: The Role of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
abstract: The aim of this descriptive chapter is to summarise the tasks and roles of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE). In order to understand the reasons behind the creation of this new tool it is important to describe the process leading to that and the cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). At the beginning of the 2000s ‘hybrid warfare’ was defined by U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Frank G. Hoffman 