Methodology
Learning by doing
In each bloc of training & seminars the participants, divided to this task into smaller work groups will receive training materials and special working sheets, which they have to prepare for the next round completing them with data and information on company basis for analysis and option generation. The participants will learn on the job to set up a professional CO2 management project step by step.
Seminar and training structure
- Each of the training & seminar blocs is structured into:
- Feed back session: The participants will briefly describe the activities undertaken since the last seminar. This guarantees continuous work, control of progress regarding the homework and special topics and measures. It provides as well for a mutual exchange of experiences and a sharing of ideas to solve problems. (In the first bloc of seminars this session will be used to introduce participants and experts including their expectations.)
- Information bloc: An expert team introduces into the new main topic as indicated in the work description.
- Interactive phase: In order to foster the understanding of the new topic the participating experts are divided into smaller groups, which should adopt in practise the just learned principles. This interactive phase is supervised by the experts. In this phase an environment is created in which the participants collect real personal experience in the relevant topics and are stimulated to translate their experience into the situation of their own job sites.
- Final discussion: Finally the results are summarised and the relevance and improvement regarding the given topic for each participant are discussed. In some of the seminars special local experts or officials are invited to give short statements and to join the final discussion.
- Review of seminar papers and homework: Starting with the second bloc of seminars and continued more intensively with the third, fourth and final bloc of seminars the EU experts will review the seminar papers of the smaller work groups, which they will complete step by step in homework in individual meetings. Typical individual coaching/consulting activities are:
- Support in data inventory and analysis.
o Support in setting up a CO2 management team (participation in meetings, selection of members).
o Consulting in creating and implementing CO2 guidelines and policies (with the participation of the decision makers of the company).
o Classification of CO2 emission sources; energy flow analysis; peak load measuring.
o Creation/transformation of process optimisation and minimisation options from other/same branches of the company.
o Technical assessment and business planning for investments in efficiency developing technology.
o Setting up a controlling system, introduction of CO2 indicators.