Category Power Shifts

Young Energy Opinion on Energy Transition

This March has been busy for the Power Shifts project! Next to the Yerevan International Session and Baku National Selection Conference, also the National Selection Conference of EYP France took place between 21- 26 March in Eaubonne with a total of 115 participants, gathering delegates from all over France as well as Ukraine and Armenia.

The media team of Eaubonne session asked the delegates their opinion on energy transition, and you can hear their opinions on this video by Francisco Cardoso, the editor of the session.

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Join us for the EYP’s first Power Lab!

Join Maria Fedoruk, the Head Facilitator, for the Power Lab 2019 taking place in Berlin from 7th – 10th of June 2019.

The Power Lab 2019 is an event in the frame of the Power Shifts – Reflecting Europe’s Energy project that seeks to leverage the academic potential of the EYP, as well as to improve the EYP’s output by producing creative material about the sessions’ results. It is going to be an annual event gathering up to 15 enthusiastic participants taking place at the end of each project’s yearly cycle of the Power Shifts project running between June 2018- June 2021.

What will we be doing?

The Power Shifts Fund has supported 9 sessions between June 2018 and June 2019, giving participants an opportunity to focus on the topic of Energy Governance...

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Discussing Energy from the gender perspective in Baku

157 young people came together in Baku to discuss challenges in the energy sector of the oil-reach Azerbaijan. During the EYP National Selection Conference that took place between 21-24 March, energy issues have been handled from different perspectives like economic diversity, R&D, international cooperation and affairs or agriculture. We asked Rasim Khankishiyev from EYP Azerbaijan about his impressions of moderating discussions held at the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) that focused on the topic below:

Although women receive equal legal, educational, and political opportunities in the governmental structures, only a small fraction of women in Azerbaijan are involved in the oil industry...

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