This three-day workshop was organized by NATO Modelling & Simulation Centre of Excellence /NATO M&S COE/ in Roma. The NATO M&S COE is a recognized international military organization activated by the North Atlantic Council in 2012, and is not under the NATO Command Structure. Partnering Nations provide funding and personnel for the Centre through a Memorandum of Understanding. Czech Republic, Italy, Germany and the USA are current Members and other Nations are in consideration.

The CELULEX 17 was a national Portuguese Army (PRT-A) training exercise, scheduled by the Portuguese Army Chief of Staff and conducted by the Land Forces Command (LFC).
This exercise was focused on planning and conducting CBRN missions in a civil-emergency environment at a tactical level with aim to develop and enlarge common co-operation among military and civil emergency system (police, firefighters, medical emergency teams) to develop and integrate CBRN Task Force (TF) operational CBR defense capabilities into civil emergency system, improve system of collaboration, evaluate national CBRN Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs) for CBRN TF sub teams.

From 24 to 27 April, the CBRNe Summit Europe 2017, chaired by the President of the Observatory on Security and CBRNe Defence (OSDIFE), Professor Roberto Mugavero, has taken place in Madrid. This summit has been the sixth in a series, which had been initiated in 2014 by OSDIFE and the Joint CBRN Defence Centre of Excellence as founding fathers. Former summits have already taken place in Brno (CZE), Roma (ITA), Singapore (SGP), Paris (FRA) and Hà Nội (VNM).