⚡[Invitation - IRENA Youth Forum 2022: The New Generation of Decision Makers] ⚡

👉 Held under the overarching theme “Youth-led solutions to accelerate the energy transition and achieve climate objectives”, the 2022 edition of the IRENA Youth Forum will highlight the role of young people in identifying and developing solutions that can promote and accelerate the renewables-based energy transitions to achieve climate targets and other sustainable development goals. It will also offer the opportunity to young leaders to share their experience and interact and connect with global thought leaders in identifying the essential areas that require support for youth to contribute to the advancement of a global energy transition.
🗓 Jan 13, 2022 15:00-17:00 CEST
📌 For more information see: https://www.irena.org/newsroom/articles/2021/Dec/Mobilising-Youth-to-Implement-the-Outcomes-of-COP26
📎 Registration is open until 12 January 2022: https://irena-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UxlSMOJxQoCpATdnRdct_Q

🙌🏼 [EYY2022 website is now live] 🙌🏼

The European Year of Youth website on the Youth Portal is now launched. You will be able to search through events and initiatives by topic or country, and upload events. This is the place to stay up-to-date on the Year, read stories from young journalists and get inspired by young peoples' ideas. The website will develop throughout the Year: https://europa.eu/youth/year-of-youth

👉 [CommUnity by InnoEnergy - Online Cafè] 👈

📢 Don’t miss out! This February 22nd from 19:00 to 20:15 CET, tune into the Online Café for a conversation with Dr. Carlos David Calder on National Public Policies commitments to the UN Climate Change Conference.

🎙In this presentation, it will be discussed:
👉 The Paris Climate Agreement and climate negotiations
👉 How countries evaluate their commitments in the context of UN climate negotiations
👉 The process of developing and implementing national public policies
👉 Portugal as a case study on public policy development and implementation

📌 For more information and to register for the session, visit the event page on the CommUnity Platform.
👉 Register here: https://community.innoenergy.com/events/76802 👈

ℹ️ At the Online Café, the Energy Policy Programme of CommUnity by InnoEnergy welcomes experts from a range of fields to join us for energy-related conversations on the last Tuesday of each month from 19:00 to 20:15 CET. Grab your drink of choice, make yourself comfortable, and come Learn, Discuss, and Network with your fellow energy enthusiasts!

👉 [CommUnity by InnoEnergy - Online Cafè] 👈
📢On the last Tuesday of each month at 19:00 CEST, tune into the CommUnity by InnoEnergy's Online Café for a casual energy-related conversation with experts from the field. Grab your drink of choice, make yourself comfortable, and get ready to Learn, Discuss, and Network with your fellow energy enthusiasts!

🗓For the March Session at Online Café, we have invited Dr. Maria Kottari for a conversation on Managing a just energy transition—insights from the EU experience. Dr. Maria Kottari is the founder of The Energy Matrix Policy Consultancy. She is a part-time Research and Teaching Associate at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute (Climate). She holds a Ph.D. in International, European & Regional Studies with a focus on Energy Politics and has a wide range of expertise and network in subjects related to the EU and international politics and governance, energy/climate and environmental policies, sustainability, and social challenges.

🎙In this session, we will discuss:
👉European Green Deal and Fit-for-55 Package; importance of it and what it means for the energy transition
👉 Principles of Just transition (information about Just Transition)
- What does Just Transition mean?
- How and When did it start?
👉 Role and importance of "Just Transition" under the Green Deal/Fit-for-55 Package (or energy transition in Europe)
👉 Coal regions in transition
- What implications will be at the national/local level in the EU coal regions in transitions and neighbouring countries (Western Balkans & Ukraine)?
👉 Future of the workforce
- For coal sector
- For mobility sector

🔎For more information and to register for the session, visit the event page on the CommUnity Platform!

👉 For more information and for registration: click here 👈

🌎 EDD Young Leaders Programme | 21-22 June 2022, Brussels 🌎

👥 The EDD offers a unique opportunity for young people from all over the world with strong expertise and commitment to positive social change to share their views, influence decision-makers and stakeholders and further develop leadership skills: https://eudevdays.eu/get-involved#anchor-2989

⚡ Climate and energy is among the themes of the EDD with a particular focus on Green and just energy transition & Integrating energy markets

📌 To submit your application to be one of the EDD Young Leaders this year, please create an online profile on the EDD website: https://eudevdays.eu/community/login

🗓 The deadline to submit proposals is 25 March at 23.59 CET.

[🇪🇺 👨‍💻 YES-Europe FF55 Training Series (III) - Energy consumption in buildings: key policies, technologies and trends]

🏢💡🔌 Curious about the #fitfor55 package and how it will shape the way we consume energy in the building sector? From key policy documents like the EPBD, EED and ETS, to trends driving change in the building sector - join us in this session to learn why the building sector is an important piece of Europe’s #decarbonisation!

🗓 Mark on your calendar: 24 March 2022, 18h30-19h30CET

🖊 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eHDB5WEa

🌎 SDG7 Youth Constituency 2022/2024 Global Focal Points Election 🌎

Applications for the next SDG7 Youth Constituency Global Focal Points are now open with deadline 2nd April 2022.

Visit this page to see the requirements for the role and to fill in your application form: linktr.ee/sdg7youth

❗️After the webinars of Tennet and Shell Germany, Klimaat en Energie Koepel (KEK), Energie Forum Aachen e.V., Young Energy Specialists & Development Cooperation (YES-DC) and European Youth Energy Network - EYEN will host the third webinar with Emelie de Wagt and Tycho Smit of the NL ministry of Economic Affairs & Climate Policy on the Dutch perspective and priorities to accelerate the energy transition and how the Netherlands works together with Germany and its other EU co-members.

📅 Today Friday 16:00, sign-up here: https://bit.ly/NLDEEnergy

What I like about these webinars is that young professionals explain to students and other energy young professionals what's happening in their energy sub-field and to take an multi-angle perspective of countries and the EU.

The deadline to the EUSEW Awards is approaching! Apply before the 28th of April!

📢On the last Tuesday of each month at 19:00 CEST, tune into the Online Café for a casual energy-related conversation with experts from the field. Grab your drink of choice, make yourself comfortable, and get ready to Learn, Discuss, and Network with your fellow energy enthusiasts!

🗓️For the April Session at Online Café, we will cover the topic Why energy communities matter? For this session, we are also participating in the #TheGreenTrack campaign from EU and we are one of the Green Track Stops.

🗣️ Our speaker for the session will be Niccoló Primo. He is an energy engineer with a background in renewable energy systems. After finishing his studies, Niccoló decided to come back to Portugal to join Coopérnico, a local renewable energy cooperative. He is working on adoption of renewable energy technologies, identifying business opportunities for energy community projects and collaborating with international companies to decentralize, decarbonize and digitalize the energy sector.


🎙In this session, we will discuss:

👉 What is an energy community?
👉 What are the differences between Renewable Energy Community, Citizens Energy Community and (Renewable) Energy Cooperative?
- Definition of energy communities according to EU Commission
👉 Differences between “business-as-usual" vs. “energy community/cooperative” way
- How is the decision-making process?
- What are the objectives?
- How is the ownership?
👉 Why do we need energy communities?
- What do you gain from the system perspectives?
- What are the advantages of energy communities?
👉 How can the energy communities contribute to energy transition and fighting against climate change?

🔎For more information and to register for the session, visit the event page on the CommUnity Platform!
👉 https://community.innoenergy.com/events/83742👈

[CommUnity by InnoEnergy - Event]
📢 Event Alert: Tuesday (10.05.) at 19:00 CEST, Deep Dive Session on Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) for a casual energy-related conversation with experts from the field. Grab your drink of choice, make yourself comfortable, and get ready to Learn & Discuss with your fellow energy enthusiasts!

🗣 speakers for the session will be EIT InnoEnergy MSc ENTECH Alumni Oğuz Kıranlar & Andreas Welschof.

🎙 In this session, we will discuss:

👉 Why you would need an EPC?
Importance of the energy consumption in the buildings sector
👉: What is EPC?
👉 Where & How can you use it?
How does it work?
👉 What are the current problems?
👉 Brief information about the savings monitoring protocols
👉 Experience from the Belgian and French markets
How is the behaviour of the customers?
Are there any problems?
👉 Brief info about the existing (or non-existing) policies

🔎 For more information and to register for the session, visit the event page on the CommUnity Platform!
👉 https://community.innoenergy.com/events/86114

🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 Tri-national programme «Youth for Energy Futures» 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇩🇪

👉 The "Youth for Energy Futures" program aims to enable European youth to identify solutions to meet this challenge by giving the opportunity to a group of 12 young adults from France, Germany and Italy to participate in a process of reflection nourished by study trips to their three countries. Field visits and meetings with committed actors will allow them to discover the diversity of contexts in which the socially just energy and ecological transition must take place, to grasp in a concrete way the questions that arise in each country and to imagine solutions.

📎 Link: https://fr.boell.org/fr/2022/05/04/programme-trinational-youth-energy-futures
🗓 Deadline for application: 31st May 2022

🔋 [European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE)] 🔋
The European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) is proud to launch its seventh annual Student Award recognising outstanding graduate student research in the field of energy storage. The winning student will be awarded a ticket for the EASE Energy Storage Biannual Global Conference taking place in Brussels on 11-13 October 2022. The 3-day ticket has the value of 1,099 Euros! He or she will be recognised during the conference and will be invited to present their research to the participants. In addition, EASE will cover transportation to and from Brussels as well as accommodation for the winning student for 3 nights in Brussels. More info here: https://ease-storage.eu/news/ease-student-award-2022/
🗓The deadline for the application is Friday, 15 July 2022. 📅

📣 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡! 📣 Save your spot for the first ever European Energy Forum, the youth and European #energytransition event of the year.

If you...
✅ are between 18 and 35 years old
✅ have good knowledge of English
✅ are studying, working or specialised in the energy sector
✅ are interested in the role of #youth in the future of energy transition
✅ are committed to actively participate in the event and in the preparation of the #positionpaper (online sessions from September until the event, expected 3h/week)

... you can apply 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟵 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 to join the event with the expenses covered!

There are only 45 spots available, make sure you get yours!⚡️🚀

Visit our website for more info and registration: https://youthenergy.eu/event/eyef/

Hurry up! 👟 Only 10 days left ❗️❗️📅 for the application deadline for the first ever European Youth Energy Forum!

🌍 Connect with other young energy changemakers, discuss with relevant stakeholders, build a position paper on the role of youth in the future of the European energy transition, and join an energy field trip you'll remember

💚 Learn more and apply till 𝟭𝟵 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 (expenses are covered!) to be selected as one of 45 participants (all 18-35y.o. from all across Europe)

👉 https://youthenergy.eu/event/eyef/ 👈

📢 Don’t miss out! Online Café is back after its summer break with the September Session. This September 27th from 19:00 to 20:30 CEST, tune into the Online Café for a conversation with Carlos Rojas on Perspectives on the use of Advanced Computing and AI in the Energy Transition.

🗣Carlos Rojas is a Product and Technology Strategist, with 20+ years of experience in the High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence systems industry, working in companies like Silicon Graphics, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and multiple start-ups. Carlos ‘retired’ last year and joined the InnoEnergy program in Energy Technologies (M.Sc. ENTECH) to start a new path in his professional career.

🎙In this presentation, we will discuss:
👉 Basics of high-performance computing (HPC)
- What is?
- What are the simulation problems?
- How does the hardware look like?
👉 What is it used for? (specific examples)
👉 How can it be useful in order to tackle with climate change?
👉 What are the challenges in the energy transition?
👉 Why it is important for EU to have HPC?
- Plans/policies from EU side

🔎 At the Online Café, we welcome experts from a range of fields to join us for energy-related conversations on the last Tuesday of each month from 19:00 to 20:30 CEST. Grab your drink of choice, make yourself comfortable, and come Learn, Discuss, and Network with your fellow energy enthusiasts!

📌 For more information and to register for the session, visit the event page on the CommUnity Platform.
👉 https://community.innoenergy.com/events/94772

🔈 Launch of the call for applications to select 35 young people to attend the 2023 edition of IRENA Youth Forum: the New Generation of Decision Makers 🔈

📌 The IRENA Youth Forum will take place in Abu Dhabi, UAE on 13 January 2023 at the margins of the 13th session of the IRENA Assembly that will take place on 14 and 15 January 2023. Pre-Forum activities will take place on 12 January 2023.

🌍 The Forum will serve to strengthen the network of young energy leaders and connect young people with global thought leaders, government representatives, and IRENA experts. Interested youth of a minimum age of 16 years are to apply for the IRENA Youth Forum by submitting a completed application. All details are available at this link: https://irena.org/events/2023/Jan/The-New-Generation-of-Decision-Makers-IRENA-Youth-Forum.

🗓 The deadline for individual applications is 29 October 2022 (at midnight, Abu Dhabi local time). Participants will be selected based on their commitment to raise awareness on or advance the deployment of renewable energy and sustainable development in their community.

🏆 Vote for the European Youth Energy Network in the #EITAwards 2022 Finals 🏆

🎉🎉🎉 Wow - we are in a grand final! Federico Barbieri, President of EYEN, is one of the 3 finalists for the CHANGE category of the #EITAwards by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).

🔥 The EIT Public Award-vote is open now: time to submit your favourite solutions till 11 October, when the winners will be announced at the #EITSummit in Brussels!

✍️✍️✍️ VOTE for Federico here: https://eit.europa.eu/eit-awards-2022/nominees/federico-barbieri-change-award

⚠️Don’t forget to check your email to confirm (including SPAM) and validate your vote!

💚💚💚 Thank you for your support! Your #youthenergy team

🏆🎓LAST CHANCE | Are you a young #energyresearcher? Then this is the moment to get your work recognized and build a community of peers.

👉 Read more below and submit your paper today, before ⚠️𝟭𝟭 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿⚠️: https://lnkd.in/dytGGkA

🌐 The Young Energy Researchers Conference - with the 2 tracks of #energyefficiency and #biomass - is part of the World Sustainable Energy Days. With ­more than 650 participants from over 50 countries each ­year, the WSED are a leading conference on the #energytransition and
#climateneutrality

// Organised by: OÖ Energiesparverband. Funding by the region of Upper Austria