  Global conflicts and trouble spots have thrown the world into turmoil.
Intelligence services have never been as necessary as they are today when it
comes to providing political decision-makers with concrete, accurate, and
up-to-date decision-making knowledge. This requires a common co-operation, a
common working language and a common understanding of each other. The best way
to create this "intelligence community" is through a harmonized intelligence
education.
  In this paper, we show how joint intelligence education can succeed. We draw
on the experience of Germany, where all intelligence services and the
Bundeswehr are academically educated together in a single degree program that
lays the foundations for a common working language. We also show how these
experiences have been successfully transferred to a European level, namely to
ICE, the Intelligence College in Europe. Our experience has shown that three
aspects are particularly important: firstly, interdisciplinarity or better,
transdisciplinarity, secondly, the integration of IT knowhow and thirdly, the
development and learning of methodological skills. Using the example of the
cyber intelligence module with a special focus on data-driven decision support,
additionally with its many points of reference to numerous other academic
modules, we show how the specific analytic methodology presented is embedded in
our specific European teaching context.
