Enel Foundation Open Africa Power 2025: Call for Applications – YOA

Deadline: May 16, 2025

Applications are open for the Enel Foundation Open Africa Power 2025. Enel Foundation and Sustainable Energy for All are excited to launch the decision for functions for the 2025 version of Open Africa Power, the programme that every yr from 2018 gives a cohort of younger vitality professionals with a whole set of technical, regulatory and enterprise expertise wanted to set off Africa’s sustainable vitality future for all. This yr the programme will have interaction as much as 80 African college students, with a minimum of 50% girls, and nearly 500 alumni in a collection {of professional} improvement and management actions offered in partnership with prime educational establishments in Italy and Africa.

Open Africa Power Program 2025 contains of on-line and residential modules from educational establishments such the University of Cape Town – Graduate School of Business, African School of Regulation, Politecnico di Torino, Politecnico di Milano, SDA Bocconi.

Initiated by Enel Foundation in 2018 and co-managed with SEforALL from the 2022 version, Open Africa Power is designed to equip a brand new technology of vitality leaders with a holistic knowhow of the electrical energy sector to go away their mark, whether or not in public or non-public sector in the direction of a clear vitality future for Africa.

Programme Structure

The Open Africa Power Program will encompass native and worldwide specialists each from academia and business and comprise the next modules:

• Digital African Module: State of the Art: This 24-hour module will happen between early June and mid July 2025. It will happen in digital kind solely. The module, delivered in collaboration with the UCT and African School of Regulation, will discover the basics of the worldwide electrical energy sector by means of the lenses of sustainable improvement targets with particular periods devoted to the nexus between vitality and gender steadiness. It will cowl the next areas:
  • Networks expertise, regulation, economics
  • Renewables expertise, regulation, economics
  • ICT digitalization of the electrical energy business
• External Partner Online Course: This course will allow the learners to realize a complete imaginative and prescient on easy methods to design acceptable coverage and regulatory framework wanted to make sure sustainable vitality for all. The on-line course on Energy Sector for Energy Transition, delivered by an accredited exterior companion, will begin in early June and can finish round mid-October 2025.
• Italian Module: New Frontiers: The Italian Module contains two separate studying moments:
  • A full residential week that may happen in Italy within the second half of 2025. Participants could have direct expertise of the brand new frontiers of the electrical energy sector, by means of numerous website visits to modern energy crops, experimental and coaching labs in addition to management rooms. They will likely be additionally referred to as to actively work together with prestigious educational companions and analysis representatives, meet with authorities, enterprise, and non-revenue leaders, partaking in dialogues across the clear vitality way forward for the African Continent.
  • An eight-weeks on-line course from mid-October to early December 2025 the place Italian educational companions (Politecnico di Torino, Politecnico di Milano, SDA Bocconi) will ship lectures on the brand new frontiers of essential subjects corresponding to Additive Manufacturing, ICT utilized to Networks’ Management, Economic and Environmental Impact Accounting, Renewables potential and local weather change, Decision-making underneath uncertainty and the important thing drivers of the vitality transition.
• Give Back Module: Upon completion of the Italian module, Enel Foundation may resolve to contain the cohort of alumni in instructing actions and occasions associated to its schooling initiatives in Africa and past.

Eligibility

• Be between the ages of 24 and 35 by April 14, 2025.
• Be a citizen of an African nation.
• Currently resident in an African nation or planning to relocate in Africa throughout the finish of 2025.
• Be eligible to journey to Italy. All candidates are invited to check effectively prematurely the process relevant to their particular circumstances.
• Having graduated by April 16, 2025, from a PhD, MBA or Master’s diploma (MSc, LLM, MPP, and so on.) diploma. Current undergraduate college students, folks solely in possession of a Bachelor’s diploma or people who find themselves at the moment enrolled in a Master’s diploma (i.e. graduate college students) usually are not eligible for this program. At least one diploma (PhD, MBA, Master’s, Bachelor’s) should be from an African University.
• Have competences and a demonstrated curiosity to pursue a profession – in non-public or public sector – within the electrical energy house at massive.
• Be totally proficient in English (CEFR C1 degree) and be capable of display this through an official language certificates or completion of a minimum of one diploma fully taught in English.
• Willingness to advertise gender equality and girls´s empowerment inside and past the programme.

Application

Applications are to be crammed by means of the dedicated platform solely, utilizing the verification code (OAPF6792). They extremely invite you to start out and full your application on each Google Chrome and a desktop setting for one of the best outcomes attainable when it comes to stability and reliability of the platform. Click on the hyperlink and copy- paste the code written right here on the suitable with a purpose to start the method.

Applicants should present:

• A duplicate of their CV (in .pdf format).
• Copy of their Bachelor’s and Master’s diploma certificates (plus eventual MBA/PhD certificates) AND educational transcripts (in .pdf format).
• A duplicate of their passport (in .pdf format).
• A motivation letter (max 700 phrases, in .pdf format).
• Two reference letters from two totally different business, academia and/or civil servant representatives (in .pdf format).

For extra data, go to Open Africa Power.