UNEP ECA Ozone network’s members awarded by elearning-training.com

The project aims to promote the use of online courses supported by information and communication technologies to train engineers in the refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump sector as part of national hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) phase-out management plans across all different countries with a view of eliminating barriers to introducing ozone and climate friendly technologies. The courses allow students to complete the Web Based Training in their own time and in a variety of locations. The main advantages include complete flexibility coupled with significant economic savings.

Certified diploma from elearning-training.com

All the countries that participated in the UNEP’s meeting of Regional Ozone Network for Europe and Central Asia including Albania, Armenia, Russian Federation, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia FYR, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan undertook an F-Gas Regulation e-learning course in English and Russian.

Practitioners had an opportunity to study Continuing Professional Development certified learning material, which is the same course used by EU countries to prepare their engineers to obtain the mandatory F-Gas Certification, without which they are not allowed to install, commission, service or maintain refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump systems.

The online training included materials on the use of refrigerants that deplete the ozone layer and have high global warming potential (GWP) but also alternatives and natural refrigerant-based technologies in the RAC sector such as CO₂ refrigeration, which is currently growing in popularity.

During the meetings roundtable discussions question and answer sessions were led by Lynton Perry, an assessor from elearning-training.com, part of the Star Refrigeration Group to explain the e-learning methodology and qualification tool. Vasil Ciconkov, president of the National Association of RAC technicians of Macedonia and one of the “students” that received the award congratulated the organisers of the event for the learning initiative “it was a very good opportunity for all UNEP members to access the F-gas regulation’s material to update knowledge in a very convenient set up”.

What comes next?

Star Refrigeration will continue to cooperate with ECA network countries and national RAC associations and promote online learning as a cost-effective training tool. The training material will be adapted to language needs of other countries in the region.

A recommendation has been made to produce Serbian and Croatian language versions of the online learning material as well. Under the scheme, national RAC experts from ECA network countries can register for the online course free of charge until the end of the year.

About elearning-training.com

eleaning-training.com offers both online training via elearning-training.com and practical training for the refrigeration, air conditioning, heat pump and BSE industries as well as the world's first interactive CO₂ refrigeration course.

More than 12,000 students have joined this online learning website which have now awarded 20,000 Continuing Professional Development diplomas. Overall, elearning-training.com has awarded more that 2,000 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Certificates in Refrigeration & Air Conditioning basics since last March and more than 10,000 in the last 5 years.

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