The Advanced Training Program in 2011
23 December 2010
The Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea once again has fully recognized the importance and impact of the Advanced Training Program on Sustainable Development and Environmental Management, confirming its support and even increasing the number of training sessions for the year 2011. 30 training courses have been scheduled, of which six will be organized in China and the rest in Italy.
A total of 512 Chinese civil servants, policy makers and entrepreneurs are expected to visit Italy in 2011, whilst the beneficiaries of all capacity-building activities (including distance learning) are expected to be around 1,050.
The topics that will be covered in the 2011 joint training programs, as indicated by the Chinese partners for this year’s program, reflect China’s priorities for sustainable development.
The requests by the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau and the Tianjin Science and Technology Committee for the 2011 training program confirm that the Chinese municipalities are interested in developing low carbon economies at an urban level. The same theme, with a special focus on available technologies, will also be developed in one training course with the Ministry of Science and Technology. Two subsequent training courses will then explore in depth energy efficiency and the role of renewables in emission reduction.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection, in line with its role, will focus on environmental policy and legislation, in particular, implementation and control. The issue of environmental regulation will also be explored by the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau, with a special focus on economic policies. As in 2010, the BEPB will also broaden the issues of environmental monitoring, incorporating the management of environmental information and communication.
The National Development and Reform Commission, continuing down the same path as previous years, will widen the issue of climate change management, focusing on the compilation of the greenhouse gas inventories as tools to support decisions and sound actions.
Finally, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences will continue working on different topics inherent to sustainable development and environmental management, i.e. energy efficiency and renewable energy, ecobuilding and sustainable urban development, waste management and water pollution.
In addition to these training courses (jointly organized by VIU and the respective Chinese partners) the academic cooperation between VIU, Tsinghua and Tongji universities will also continue in 2011 through the exchange of students and scholars and the organization of joint workshops. In particular, 18 students from China are expected to visit VIU in 2011 and a similar number of Italian students will develop their master thesis at the two universities and other institutions located in China within the Globalization Program. Moreover, a joint VIU-Tongji workshop on Low Carbon Economy is planned, involving representatives from other countries and international institutions such as UNEP."
 

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