On 11 March, TNTD/ATU hosted a pilot training session in Vienna, Austria, on an evaluation toolkit developed by the EU-funded consortium IMPACT-Europe to assist front-line workers, other practitioners and policy-makers in the field of countering violent radicalization. The toolkit draws on a state-of-the-art knowledge database on violent radicalization factors, existing interventions, and approaches to evaluate these interventions. In addition to TNTD/ATU, the Office of Internal Oversight (OiO), and the Conflict Prevention Centre (CPC), the tutorials were attended by programmatic staff from five OSCE field operations, as well as external experts who were invited through the EU Radicalization Awareness Network. Four training sessions were previously organized by IMPACT in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, and London. From 28 March to 1 April, TNTD/ATU, in support of the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, assisted in the organization of a one-week training for 20 Border Guards from Kazakhstan on document integrity and advanced methods to detect document forgery. The training included methods for identifying falsified travel documents, as well as imposters/look-a-likes during the border crossing check-up procedure. From 4 to 15 April, TNTD/ATU organized an online expert forum on “Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships in Preventing and Countering Hostage-Taking and Kidnapping for Ransom”. 86 experts participated in the forum, representing State officials, business and security sectors, news agencies, NGOs/research institutions, international and regional organizations as well as humanitarian agencies. The forum was hosted through the POLIS platform (http://polis.osce. org). Its objectives were (1) “Training”: to identify training components and training opportunities for international and regional organizations as well as agencies and civil society that deploy their staff to risk areas; (2) “Victims”: to share the experiences of states and relevant civil society organizations that provide support to victims of kidnapping and hostagetaking, and to identify best practices; and (3) “Media”: to discuss the role of the media in reporting about efforts in countering terrorism, kidnapping and hostage-taking. Three expert moderators facilitated online discussions comprised of three sets of questions which corresponded to the abovementioned objectives. Participants had the opportunity to answer and/or comment on these questions, as well as to respond to remarks posted by other participants. More than 250 posts (answers/comments/contributions) were written in the forum. 28 From 4 to 16 April, and 2 to 14 May, TNTD/ATU organized one-week intensive training courses in Cherkasy, Ukraine to increase the operational awareness of Ukrainian border control officers in detecting forged travel documents. The trainings were conducted as a part of the project on “Assistance to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in Basic Profiling and Increasing the Operational Awareness to Detect Forged Travel Documents for front-line Officers”. This project included six trainings for over 100 border officers. From 11 to 16 April, 14 Ukrainian experts undertook an advanced train-the-trainer course on forged travel documents. Following this course, and under the supervision of Austrian document experts, the newly trained participants held trainings themselves using materials provided during the two general courses. On 1 and 2 June, TNTD/ATU, in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, organized a seminar on ICAO PKD for technical senior officers who are involved in the planning and deployment of e-passport issuance systems and border control IT systems, as well as forensic experts on the e-passport design and testing in Astana, Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan has been a member of the ICAO PKD since 2008, and the discussions of the seminar focused on the achievements and challenges related to the integration of the PKD, as well as ways to become an active member and user of this tool. On 20 and 21 July, TNTD/ATU organized the first in a series of online expert fora on the “Development of an OSCE E-learning Module on Countering the Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes”. The online expert forum was held on the OSCE POLIS platform. The objective of the expert fora was to discuss the essential contents of an e-learning module on Countering the Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes, and to encourage participants to share their experiences, expertise and knowledge and contribute to the development of the e-learning module. During the two-day online expert forum, 35 registered participants from 22 organizations made about 80 comments and contributions, and suggested useful information sources, material, links, etc., to be used for the sub-chapters of the OSCE e-learning module. The other two online expert fora related to same topic were held on 15 and 16 September and 20 and 21 October.