Young Energy Ambassador Programme 2025 – YOA

Deadline: March 1, 2025

Are you between 18 and 35 and dedicated to advancing Europe’s aggressive, clear and truthful vitality transition? This is an thrilling OPPORTUNITY for you. The Young Energy Ambassadors (YEA) programme provides a novel likelihood to affix a dynamic group of younger professionals for a yr-lengthy mandate. You could have the possibility to become involved in EU policymaking on vitality, interact with coverage specialists, study vitality matters and share coverage messages in your communities. YEAs will take an lively part in discussions on the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) from 10-12 June 2025, and past.

Initiated in 2023, the Young Energy Ambassadors programme displays the European Commission’s dedication to involving the youthful technology in discussions on aggressive, clear and truthful vitality transition. It goals at: 

• rising the involvement of younger individuals within the European coverage-making course of associated to sustainable vitality;
• boosting younger individuals’s curiosity and influence in clear vitality;
• recognising and rewarding younger individuals’s contributions to vitality transition.

Benefits

• The Ambassadorship programme actions will run from April 2025 to June 2026. Ambassadors will attend and actively take part within the European Sustainable Energy Week happening on 10-12 June 2025 in Brussels (bills lined).
• Several different alternatives comparable to coverage dialogues, webinars, outreach actions and a mentorship scheme are additionally provided through the mandate.

Eligibility

• The candidate should legally reside within the European Union, and their vitality-associated actions, tasks, and actions should be carried out in a minimum of one Member State of the EU.
• Candidates should be between 18 and 35 years previous, i.e. born between 1 March 1989 and 1 March 2007, on the time limit of the decision for functions.

Evaluation Criteria

The analysis can be based mostly on three standards associated to the questions within the application type. Each of those standards can be scored on a scale from 1 to 10:

• Profile: Applicants ought to give attention to highlighting parts of originality and their private journey in direction of turning into an advocate for the clear, truthful and aggressive vitality transition (research, private {and professional} actions and so forth).
• Action and influence: Applicants ought to describe concrete actions they’ve undertaken to advance the sustainable vitality transition and/or to deal with particular challenges within the sustainable vitality area. Applicants ought to clearly show the influence of those actions (e.g. who was impacted by your actions and the way). Applicants also needs to describe actions they’ve taken to encourage or mobilise others (together with by way of social media).
• Motivation: Applicants ought to clarify their motivation to turning into a Young Energy Ambassador, together with recommendations on how their participation within the YEA programme might assist unfold messages about the advantages of a clear, sustainable and truthful vitality transition amongst EU residents or contribute in every other method to the vitality transition and coverage-making within the area of sustainable vitality.

Application

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For extra info, go to Young Energy Ambassadors.