March 2006 : CAI experts meet Chinese CO2 managers for training in Hangzhou

The 2nd training bloc was held in Hangzhou between 28th February and 3rd March 2006. Hangzhou was chosen to encourage the participants to completely concentrate on the training course. Since a significant part of the participants comes from organisations in Beijing a noticeable level of distraction was present. Based in experiences in China and Europe, this might be avoided by going to a place which is away from the usual work environment. Hangzhou as a training location minimised fluctuation among the trainees and a led to a satisfactory result in this regards. Overall training in the 2nd training bloc went smoothly. At the end of the second bloc of training & seminars the Chinese participants were given the task to develop a PIN (Project Idea Note) for the 4th training bloc and to present this PIN there. The PIN should be on a concrete project rather than a fictional one (many participants chose a fictional project for the exercise between the first and second training session). The participants were encouraged to have their draft PIN ready for the study tour in Europe in order to present the PIN to experts during the study tour.