Our Projects / EYEF
The European Youth Energy Forum (EYEF) is the flagship event organised by the European Youth Energy Network (EYEN), with the mission to create the space for youth to voice its opinion and collaborate with energy stakeholders towards better youth engagement.
The time to rethink our relationship with energy is now and today’s design choices for our future energy system will heavily impact current and especially future generations. Currently, there is a lack of youth engagement at a decision-making level in the European energy transition. EYEF aims to induce structural changes towards mainstreaming the ideas and visions of young people in the energy sector.
A group of young people are selected to participate in weekly online sessions, as well as a 5 days live event (with all expenses covered!). During the online sessions, we kick-off the work needed to build a position paper on how to improve youth engagement in the energy transition at the European, National and local levels, in the public and private sectors, as well as in education. The focus might be in researching and writing new proposals, or on improving existing proposals.
The event includes discussion panels with energy experts (open to the general public and streamed online), as well as work sessions with the participants, facilitated by EYEN.
Participants from the ages of 18 to 35 based in Europe
Online sessions to prepare until the event
5 days of live event with expenses covered
Outcome: proposals on how to engage youth in the European energy transition
EYEF doesn’t stop at the forum.
That’s only the beginning!
EYEF aims to create structural changes towards mainstreaming the ideas and visions of young people in the energy sector.
To do so, EYEN created an Implementation Team, who will contact and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to implement the proposals at the European level. They will also develop pilot tests of some proposals at National level, which will give important insights into the feasibility of implementing the measures and necessary changes to them.
After a successful event in Lisbon, EYEN is organising its second European Youth Energy Forum from 30 October to 3 November in Berlin! The participants will attend weekly online sessions, as well as a 5 days live event in Berlin with all expenses covered. The event will include discussion panels with energy experts (livestreamed online), as well as work sessions with the 50 youth. If you wish to have more information about this forum don’t hesitate to check the event page!
The accessible parts of the event will include kenote speeches on youth engagement in the energy transition, best practices and presentations of the partners. They will be livestreamed from Tuesday, 31 Oct 9 a.m. To join, check out our LinkedIn.
Are you the representative of an event partner or a media outlet, and will be in Berlin over the course of the event? Reach out and enquire to join! If you want to follow the panels, do connect online.
Do you support the mission of the European Youth Energy Forum and the international non-profit driving it? You can join the team of the upcoming event, EYEN’s task forces and more. Check out our open positions or write us a mail.
From the 19th to the 23rd of November, EYEN hosted the first ever European Youth Energy Forum in Lisbon, and the participants reached key milestones in bringing youth closer to the energy sector. With the event, EYEN managed to bring youth from all across Europe together for a week, to bridge them with different stakeholders of the energy sector – from academia to privates and policy-makers. Below are some of the partners who worked with us. If you wish to know more about this edition, see the event page, and access our newsletter edition featuring insights about everything that happened there.
Note: this video was done during the EYEF 2022.
The position paper resulting from the event was already presented to policy-makers at the Portuguese Parliament, to the CEO of the integrated energy operator Galp in its company headquarters & more. Click here to check the 12 concrete proposals to improve youth engagement.
Our Projects / EYEF