From Berlin to Athens: energy transition journeys you don’t want to miss! 🌍
From Berlin to Athens: energy transition journeys you don’t want to miss! 🌍
#2023 European Youth Energy Forum, EYEN is recruiting, YES-Europe’s Annual Conference in Athens, BJE in Berlin and much more news!
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Welcome back to our network! This month, in our newsletter:
🔸Our flagship event, the European Youth Energy Forum of 2023;
🔸EYEN at the European Economic and Social Committee;
🔸From our members, a follow up on YES-Europe’s Annual Conference in Athens, and BJE’s trip to Berlin to work on the energy transition in Germany!
[LAST CHANCE TO APPLY] EYEN is recruiting until May 28th! In this newsletter, don’t miss our volunteers’ stories, their experience as energy changemakers in EYEN and their biggest satisfactions and hopes for the organisation. 💭
Our upcoming events for you 📣
Mark your calendars for the
European Youth Energy Forum of 2023! 🦜
Youth is still in need of a better energy transition. And it’s still time for the stakeholders of the energy sector to rethink and redesign our energy systems. To address the lack of youth engagement in decision-making at the EU level, the European Youth Energy Forum returns in its second edition. Berlin, 30th of October to 3rd of November 2023, we’re coming! 🎉
The European Youth Energy Forum is the yearly flagship event of EYEN. Its aim is to create a space for youth to voice its opinion on the energy transition and collaborate with stakeholders towards a meaningful youth engagement in the energy sector. 💡
Do you remember EYEF’s first edition? 🧐 Since then, a lot of work has been done by our EYEF Implementation Task Force, to ensure that the 12 concrete proposals found in #EYEF2022’s s position paper reach as many stakeholders as possible. This year, the work will get even more hands-on, as the Forum will gather 50 young people based in Europe and between 18 and 35 years old, to work on the improvement & implementation of the proposals.
Participants will take part in weekly online sessions for the 2 months prior to the event, to prepare for a live 5-days event in Berlin to have discussions and workshops with organisations that are already implementing or interested in implementing the proposals. 📝
We will be opening the call for participants at the beginning of June!
In the meantime, you can throwback with us to EYEF’s first edition> 📸
Discover more at our event page on #EYEF2023> 🦜
Our latest stories in youth + energy 🚀
A new agenda for democracy and youth engagement at the European Economic and Social Committee 🏛
Since 1957, the EESC has acted as a consultative body of the European Union, providing advice to the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council in their activities. It is composed of independent members representing economic and social interests. 📝 These members come from three different Groups: (I) employers, (II) workers, and (III) civil society.
“38% of the countries of the world are not free and do not have a democracy.” 🧐 What does that have to do with EYEN, youth, the energy transition and the EU? At the end of April, Carlotta Ferri – Vice President of EYEN – was invited at the European Parliament for the election of the new President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC): Oliver Röpke.
In his nomination speech, Röpke highlighted the crucial role that the EESC has in strengthening the EU’s democratic legitimacy and effectiveness, and in responding to the lack of involvement of civil society around the world. Röpke reaffirmed that youth participation is fundamental and recalled successful examples of youth inclusion, such as the EESC’s section dedicated to climate change, which works closely with schools and finances youth delegates participating to the UNFCCC’s yearly Conference Of the Parties (COP).
What next then for youth in the EESC? The measures proposed include:
1. The creation of participatory EESC citizens’ panels 💭
2. Increased digitalisation of the proceedings 💻
3. A more representative and inclusive EESC 📈
4. Including youth delegates in the EESC Groups 🌱
5. Involving youth in the EESC’s substantial work through the establishment of an ad-hoc advisory council. 🏛
As EYEN, we share the EESC’s renewed commitment: a meaningful youth inclusion at the EU level. 🎯 And that’s why we are already in communication with the EESC’s section dedicated to energy to discuss the involvement of youth delegates on the topic, to create another successful example of engagement.
Stay tuned! We’re also building our Young Energy Consumers Task Force and other exciting activities, in collaboration with institutions and partners! Check them out in our latest newsletter > ✍️
In pictures: YES-Europe’s Annual Conference 📸
What does sustainability really look like? What systemic changes are needed to sustain the energy transition? Which type of energy changemaker are you – an organiser, a knowledge builder, a conversation starter, or more? 💭 These questions (and many possible answers!) were at the centre of YES-Europe’s Annual Conference in Athens, organised in collaboration with Resilient Planet at the end of April and gathering young energy and sustainability enthusiasts from all around Europe.
The three-day event kicked off with a presentation on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy – to then move into several projects that, in their capacity, contribute to the achievement of SDG7: from Pianeta Energy and their work on how to calculate the environmental impact of a conference, to the Greek Centre of Research and Technology’s work in research & innovation for sustainability, and the WWF’s workshop on Eat4Change, the international project co-funded by the EU to create an enabling environment for healthy and sustainable diets. And as EYEN, we could not miss the event! Tiago Vicente, Board Member of EYEN and Energy Engineer at ADENE, presented our main flagship event, the European Youth Energy Forum (EYEF), as a powerful tool to reshape youth engagement in the European energy transition.
And among all the discussions on the energy transition, the importance of renewables in accelerating it, the climate crisis and the inequalities it exacerbates, the Conference highlighted the key role of youth and women in making a change. A change that starts small, as participants observed at their visit to Symbeeosis – creating sustainable products from their fields and beehives – and Helios Eco Lab – an off grid multi-functional environment that provides a home, workshop & farm for its creator David Davis and up to 5 volunteers, demonstrating that zero-waste is possible.
Find out more about Resilient Planet & YES-Europe, founding member of EYEN > ♻️
More on EYEN at YES-Europe’s Annual Conference >🚀
BJE in Berlin: working on the state of the energy transition in Germany 🏙
Bundesverband Junge Energie e.V. (BJE) is one of EYEN’s members, and the biggest and most important umbrella organisation in the field of youth energy associations in Germany. They support and promote the independent networking of student associations and initiatives in the energy industry to enable them and their members to engage in an interdisciplinary, research-oriented, and open-ended dialogue on energy industry issues. 💡
What is there to do in Berlin for youth organisations in the energy sector? 🧐 At the beginning of May, BJE and its member associations Energie Forum Aachen e.V., Essener Energie Club, Akademischer Energieverein Leipzig e.V., Kine, RE Con e.V., met in the German capital to intensify the contact among the associations.
At the heart of the city, they discussed on the state of the energy transition in Germany with Katharina Hartz, former BJE and now Project Officer Power at Agora Energiewende – an evidence-based think thank that informs policy-makers, economists, researchers and civil society on strategies to advance climate neutrality (if you’re curious to know more, you can find their most important findings here!).
The organisations also met with TransnetBW GmbH to discover more on grid planning and the energy transition, and with AFRY Management Consulting to work on a practical case study on PV storage. To conclude your trip in Berlin, the team also advises a trip to the city’s Energy Museum, where you can find over 5000 exhibits from all aspects of power generation, and even control the start-up process of a combined cycle power plant! 🔌
What next for BJE and its members? You can find them and get in touch at the E-World Energy and Water Conference from May 23rd to May 25h, one of the leading trade fairs in the energy sector in Essen, Germany.
Registrations are still open! Check out the Conference’s programme > 📑
What are your big plans? Join EYEN and reshape the energy transition👇
We are a team of young energy engineers, environmental scientists, creatives & comms professionals, heat transition and hydrogen enthusiast, energy operations managers, sustainability consultants, activists, lawyers by day, and so much more, and we have big plans for a better energy transition. 🚀
This month, we are expanding our team, but only for until the 28th of May!
👉🌿Is there something you can offer #youth + #energy? If you’re aged between 18 and 35 & are based in Europe, you can join our teams to work on #EYEF2023, #Communications, #Governance, #HR, or the upcoming #COP28.
Have an impact: apply to our open positions 🚀
Why join the Federation advocating for the meaningful engagement of young people in the energy transition and creating spaces that allow them to have an impact? 🌱 To find out, we asked our teams for you: of your time at EYEN, what are you most proud of?👇
“Creating the European Youth Energy Forum: we gathered 45 young people from 20 different countries to write a position paper and provided them with a space to discuss the energy transition with stakeholders of the energy sector. We also got to present the paper to the Portuguese Parliament and Presidency, and we now have a date to present it to the European Commission.”
Tiago Vicente
Board Member at EYEN and Energy Engineer at ADENE
“There were many achievements I am proud of, but seeing the organisation start, being officially established and running is everyday my biggest pride for EYEN.
At the European Sustainable Energy Week of 2022, while on stage talking about youth in energy communities, we got to see the full potential of our organisation. We received many questions and the interest of people in the audience showed. Sparking that interest is something that we are proud of.”
Jacopo Sala
Director of Secretariat at EYEN and Ph.D. Researcher
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