Training courses for Tunisian trainers on SWH in Morocco ( 2007-09-15 )
	Within its capacity building activities and in order to prepare an adequate professional environment for a perennial development of the PROSOL programme MEDREC supported the training of Tunisian professionals, in charge of the training of Tunisian SWH installers, within the PROSOL itself. For this purpose, a 3 day’s training course was carried out by CDER in Marrakech (Morocco) from 3 to 5 September 2007. This training, in favour of 10 participants coming from the Tunisian Agency for Professional Training (ATFP) and from the National Agency for Energy Conservation (ANME), dwelt on the technical and practical aspects of SWH sizing, installation and maintenance. Practical work was also undertaken during this training course. The participants assembled and dismounted various components of SWH, and detected various breakdowns which can occur, in order to propose repairing solutions.
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	Italo-Tunisian CDM Capacity Building programme ( 2007-04-15 )
	MEDREC has organized 8 days training session aiming at addressing the topic of CDM projects development under the practical and operational point of view. Participants were provided with a presentation of concrete experiences while addressing theoretical and technical issues during the development of CDM projects. The training session programme was divided in 8 days: 1st – 4th days: explanation of theoretical aspects necessary to develop CDM projects on the basis of real case studies; 5th and 6th days: theory, calculation and examples related to specific case studies of potential CDM projects on the following issues: gas capture from landfills and energy efficiency. 7th and 8th days: Workshop for studying 4 case studies concerning Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. To the training session took part representatives of several Tunisian private and public Institutions such as STEG, ONAS, ANGeD, ETAP, METAP, DGE, DGEQV.
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Training and capacity building activities, at a regional level, are major issues within MEDREC mission of providing sustainable energy services and contributing to the climate change mitigation. The focus of such activities is on both individual and institutional level.

The comprehensive capacity building strategy is composed of a number of different activities:

support and organization of scientific meetings and thematic workshop for the stakeholders of the MEDREC region,
support and organization of periodical on-site technical visits to existing plants or ongoing demonstration projects,
implementation and strengthening of exchange networks;
facilitate the access to information on funding and training opportunities as well as capacity building resource materials, such as case studies and software tools