ACTIS (Applied Counter-Terrorism & Intelligence Studies) is a branch of SMC University providing research, education and consulting services in the field of counterterrorism, terrorism, intelligence and security.

ACTIS has assembled a group of internationally renowned and experienced academics, practitioners and experts with professional and specialised expertise in the various sub-fields of security as academic team. Its members develop course content and materials for the certificate courses, are e-learning lecturers and in some cases provide consulting services under the auspices of ACTIS.

Further ACTIS has entered into cooperation with reputable academic institutions and independent think-tanks for the purpose of jointly developing certificate courses, other  academic programs and conferences on various topics related to counterterrorism, terrorism, intelligence and security.

In detail our activities are:

• Certificate Courses:
  ACTIS’s main activity is the development of high quality certificate courses with a focus on different aspects of security, such as terrorism, counterterrorism, IT-security, corporate security, security engineering, profiling, crisis management, event security, preventive behaviour, social engineering, forensics, etc.
  
  Our courses are split into two groups, policy courses on the one hand and training courses on the other hand. While policy courses are being developed to educate decision makers, diplomats, journalists, etc, our training courses provided security personnel of various types with the knowledge required for their work.
  
  In today’s world both the business community as well as private individuals are confronted with a variety of security risks in their professional respectively private life, but appropriate education, providing practical guidance (in addition to theoretical background) for those risk is lacking. Therefore all of our courses are geared towards preparing the students for real life situations by using case studies and historical examples as main tools in teaching, instead of being mainly theoretical in nature.
  
  
• Tailor Made Courses:
  In addition to our selection of courses we also develop tailor made courses for clients where specific knowledge and expertise are required.
  
  
• Security and Intelligence Consulting:
  Through the same team of experts SMC-SPS also provides security consulting services to corporate and private clients. Such services include, among others, research and threat assessment, planning and implementation of security concepts in the various fields, education of security personnel through tailor made courses and live lectures as well as continuing monitoring and supervision of implemented or existing security systems.