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  • Feb.2011: Media Report : Pilots benefit from CPSUC project
  • February 2011: Successful CPSUC Final Conference in Hohhot, China
  • February 2011: All 13 Centers are ready to go and all of them are connected! —Final Workshop and Network Meeting of Cleaner Production Centers in China
  • September 2010: Follow-up CP campaigning plans in China
  • May 2010: Chinese CP experts on study tour to Europe
  • April 2010: CPSUC - Draft Cleaner Production Campaigns ready
  • March 2010: CPSUC project enters final year 3
  • January 2010: Workshop on designing of Cleaner Production Campaigns in China
  • November 2009: Cleaner Production project in the Croatian hospitality industry concluded successfully
  • September 2009: EEP project Coal-to-Oil final conference in Beijing
  • August 2009: Energy Benchmarking project final conference in Beijing
  • March 2009 : Rational Energy Utilization in China ’s Industrial Kilns
  • February 2009 : First round of Energy Benchmarking training with energy service providers hold in Beijing
  • January 2009 : New project with Croatia on Cleaner Production in the Hospitality Industry started
  • December 2008 : Kick-off meeting on Clean Coal to Oil
  • October 2008 : CAI managing director Gerhard Weihs fastens ties with China and moves his residence to Beijing
  • September 2008 : Seminars on Energy efficient buildings in India
  • September 2008 : Promotion of Benchmarking in Energy Intensive Industries in China
  • August 2008 : ESCO Project in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia
  • July 2008 : Cleaner Production workshop in Kunming, Yunnan Province, PR China
  • May 2008 : Green Certificate for Mongolian Enterprises
  • April 2008 : Successful CPSUC Kick-off meeting in Beijing
  • March 2008 : ECOPROFIT Cluster established in Ulan Bator
  • January 2008 : CPSUC-Contract signed with EC
  • December 2007 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL Moves Headquarter to First Address in the Very Centre of Vienna
  • November 2007 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL Teams up with Several Chinese Partners for three Projects under the EU-China Energy and Environment Programme (EEP)
  • October 2007 : Contract Negotions on New Project of CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL in China started
  • September 2007 : Triple A and Double B Score for CENTRIC's CO2 Manager Project in China
  • July 2007 : Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control in Turkey, India and China – BAT for Chinese textile and leather industry
  • June 2007 : EU experts visit Mongolian CP companies
  • May 2007 : Croation CP trainees were invited to workshops in Ireland, Austria and Germany
  • April 2007 : CAI experts on Post-Tsunami-'Relive' mission in India
  • April 2007 : ECOPROFIT Mongolia - first annual interim review
  • March 2007 : TEMPUS Cleaner Production Center Rijeka - Instruction workshop
  • March 2007 : CAI could present impressive results of the CO2 managers China project at the final conference in Beijing
  • February 2007 : CAI managing director presents EIUP results in Brussels
    • Map of the ASEAN region.
    • Summary - Feasibility study for the Implementation of Energy Integrated Urban Planning (EIUP) and the applicability of European Approaches.
    • The EIUP project partnership.
    • Summary of the speech of CAI manager Weihs in Brussels on EIUP.
    • Summary - Feasibility study for distributed generation (DG) and renewable energy portfolio (REP) of a distribution utility: case study in the Philippines.
    • Summary - Capacity Building for Calaca, Batangas Local Governments Unit (LGU), Public Market Vendors and Households to Operate a Biogas Facility: Learning from European and ASEAN/Thai Best Practices.
  • February 2007 : CAI joins energy efficiency workshop of State Agencies in Chandigarh, India
  • January 2007 : Project partners meet in Ireland
  • December 2006 : EU team invited Croation experts to interviews and selected candidates for the Cleaner Production Center in Rijeka
  • December 2006 : CAI managing director assists CDM-CERS trading workshop in Beijing
  • September 2006 : Chinese CO2 experts and EU team at Great Wall in Ningxia
  • September 2006 : First company workshop on Cleaner Production in Mongolia
  • August 2006 : Final workshops and conferences of EC-ASEAN Energy Facility projects in the Philippines
  • July 2006 : Instruction training for Mongolian Cleaner Production experts in Ulan Bator
  • June 2006 : CAI establishs project office in Beijing
  • May 2006 : Chinese CO2 managers are invited by CAI to visit Europe on CDM purposes
  • April 2006 : CAI starts CP project with the Mongolian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • March 2006 : Regional Dissemination Conference in Bangkok to present results of EIUP
  • March 2006 : CAI experts meet Chinese CO2 managers for training in Hangzhou
  • February 2006 : EIUP final visits to ASEAN host cities
  • December 2005 : EIUP expert teams visit Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines the third time
  • September 2005 : Certificates for Chinese CP foundries issued in Tianjin - Speech by CAI managing director Gerhard Weihs
  • August 2005 : Progress in energy integrated urban planning - CAI experts visit again Vietnam, Philippines and Laos
  • July 2005 : CAI invited ASEAN experts visiting Denmark, Gernany and Austria
  • June 2005 : Integrated Southern Africa Business Advisory (INSABA)
  • May 2005 : Visit to most advanced Clean Energy Action demonstration projects in China
  • May 2005 : Kick-off meeting to start CO2 manager project in China
  • April 2005 : Kick-off-meeting of a new project in the Philippines within the framework of the EC-ASEAN Energy Facility Programme
  • March 2005 : After succesful application CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL signed new contract with EC on CO2 Management in China
  • February 2005 : International experts under leadership of CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL visited Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines
  • January 2005 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL experts visit China and give advice on Cleaner Production
  • November/December 2004 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL has set new methodological standards for environment and energy planning in year 2004
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  • October 2004 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL held regional workshop in Bangkok to introduce energy and environment integrated urban planning to ASEAN cities
    • more info.
  • September/October 2004 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL's experts coach Chinese foundries on site in implementing Cleaner Production
  • August 2004 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL invites Chinese municipalties to CDM cooperation
  • August 2004 : Visit to EU delegetion in China to report about project progress
  • July 2004 : Successful project kick-off in Jakarta
  • April 2004 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL signed first contract with ASEAN CENTRE OF ENERGY in Jakarta, Indonesia
  • May 2004 : Appointment of CAI managing director Gerhard Weihs to Chinese consultancy business
  • February 2004 : New project within the framework of the EC ASEAN Energy Facility Programme
  • January 2004 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL was proposed by the Austrian government to the European Union as Austrian candidate for the International Co-operation Award for Sustainable Development
  • Dezember 2003 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL applied successfully for a new ASIA-INVEST project with China
  • October 2003 : SYNERGY Project completed successfully
  • September 19, 2003 : Governmental Chief Engineers from China visited Klagenfurt
  • January 14, 2003 : Indian companies are the first in Asia to recieve ECOPROFIT certificate

January 2004 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL was proposed by the Austrian government to the European Union as Austrian candidate for the International Co-operation Award for Sustainable Development

It is great honour for CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL that we were selected by the Austrian Government as Austrian candidate for this award of the European Union in 2004. Managing director Gerhard Weihs expressed, that "already having been nominated is a great success and proof for the outstanding activities of our association".

The candidacy is based on the very unique constellaton of the partnership between a strong governmental organisation in a very big country (China) and a professional non-profit association in a very small country (Austria).


Awareness and capacity building through environmental training programmes are the objectives of a unique partnership between the Austrian professional non-profit association CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL (CAI) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of the People's Republic of China. Up to now about five hundred selected Chinese experts have attended training programmes in the framework of this partnership in China, more than 70 Chinese experts were invited by CAI to study tours and long term trainings in Europe, almost 100 European organisations, companies and institutions were inaugurated to the Chinese experts and partners, vice versa dozens of Chinese institutions were made akquainted with European experts. The coming activities are based on a periodical updated strategic planning to focus efficiently on topics which earn the highest priority for a sustainable development. The partnership is grateful for the support given by international developing agencies as well as the Austrian and the Chinese government.

The specific objectives of the partnership are to develop and execute environmental training projects and to stimulate the exchange of experiences and best practice approaches on expert level and appropriate human resources development to build awareness and capacities for a sustainable development:

Environmental protection

The majority of earth-population and also a large number of people in China suffer from deficient supply of energy and water and insufficient waste water and solid waste disposal. Growth of population, progressing urbanisation, industrialisation and consumption danger environment, living conditions, climate and limited resources. The partnership addresses major topics with strategic meaning to meet these problems on technological, scientific, economical and management level:

  • Environmental Management
  • Energy Planning and Energy Efficiency
  • CO2 Management and Climate Change
  • Cleaner Production and Resource Efficiency

Economic development

    The partnership aims at supporting the building of new business partnerships between Europe and China. Increased competition and economical integration do prompt more and more companies to look beyond their traditional markets. One way to do this is to forge strategic alliances. CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL (CAI) is such an alliance in pooling competences, capacities and references of its members and partners. The needed keys to develop distant partnerships successfully can be organised efficiently by risk and cost sharing: be correctly informed, be prepared to face a new business culture and be able to find the right counterpart. For its Chinese partner CAI acts like a window to the European market.

Social equity

    The partnership is based on the conviction, that the efforts of developing countries to increase welfare are justified, but the global demographic, economic, social and ecological changes are challenging more sustainable concepts and strategies. In this respect the activities undertaken have the character of help-to-selfhelp programmes, which should enable the concerned people to improve their living conditions in fairness and equity on the long run.

Meanwhile the partnership has materilized in several concrete training projects, which were co-financed by international agencies and the Austrian and the Chinese government including own contributions of the involved parties:

  • Training Programme on Energy Management and Energy Efficiency in the Peoples Repubic of China and in Europe (SYNERGY PROGRAMME 2000 - 2001, Ref. N° 4.1041/D/99-038
  • Training Programme on Greenhouse Gas Reducing Energy Strategies, Tools and Technologies in the Peoples Repubic of China and in Europe (SYNERGY PROGRAMME 2002 - 2003, Ref. N° 4.1041/D/01-004-SI2.327764)
  • Clean Energy Action China - Capacity Development for the Adoption of Clean Energy Technologies to Reduce Air Pollution in Chinese Cities (United Nations Development Programme 2002 - 2004, CPR/01/302/B/01/99)
  • Professional Human Resources Development and Management - Support of Western Region Development in the People's Republic of China (United Nations Development Programme 2003 - 2004, CPR/01/520/C/01/99)
  • Cleaner Production in the Foundry Industry of the People's Republic of China (ASIA-INVEST Technical Assistance Programme 2004 - 2005, Ref. N° ASI/B7-301/02/0535-004-71307)

Further training projects according to the above mentioned plannings are under preparation.

 

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