Dec 4 2025
The Greek Energy Forum and the School of Law of the University of Nicosia are co-organizing the 4th Energy Union Future Leaders Academy within the regional landscape of Eastern Mediterranean and South-eastern Europe.
This follows the successful organisation of the previous "Energy Union Future Leaders” Academies conducted in previous years in Piraeus, Thessaloniki and Athens under the auspices of the Vice President of the European Commission Maroš Šefčovič and inaugurated by Greece’s ministers of energy and the U.S. Ambassadors to Greece.
- The Energy Union Future Leaders Academy seeks to select 40 high-caliber university students and young professionals with genuine interest in energy.
- The objective is to educate these promising 40 young individuals on the significance of the European energy policies regarding the Energy Union and the energy transition, as well as highlight the indispensable element of "regionality” and the relations with EU’s international partners.
About the Energy Union Future Leaders Academy
The Energy Transition Future Leaders Academy is a program intended to identify high-caliber university students and young professionals with proven, genuine interest in energy and educate them on key elements of current European energy policies.
- The program’s purpose is to offer these promising young individuals an intensive, challenging and rewarding course on the structure that makes EU’s energy policy an essential part of the European Union.
- The course will examine the fundamental principles that shape the core of European energy policies, analyze the benefits, evaluate the goals, identify the vulnerabilities, and suggest improvements for the future.
The Academy creates, on a biannual basis, a small but valuable core of young energy experts equipped with specialized knowledge to understand, defend, promote, and enrich EU’s energy policies.
The program covers five core EU energy policy areas: Energy Security & Solidarity, Internal Energy Market, Energy Transition & Decarbonization, Energy Efficiency and new technologies, and Energy Investments and financing.
- These objectives will be met through targeted seminars on all pilar aspects of European energy policies, accompanies with debates, discussions & workshops on critical energy topics, conducted by successful business executives from the energy sector, as well as EU and other government officials & academics related to the energy sector.
- At the end of each session a networking session takes place, where the Delegates have a chance to meet and talk with the Lecturers of the session and with the HR executives who usually follow the Academy’s proceedings.
- This is a 100% non-profit initiative and hence, there will be no registration fee for the applicants who will be chosen as delegates in the Academy.
- Furthermore, it is within the organizers’ intentions to cover accommodation expenses for all successful applicants.
Eligibility Criteria
- University students and young professionals with interest or relevance to the energy sector
- Priority will be given to applicants who are nationals of South-eastern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean countries.
Application submission deadline:
TBA
Application Documents
- CV
- One (optional) short essay answering one of the two following questions (500 words max):
(a) In your opinion, what would be the potential benefits for South-eastern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean countries by applying EU’s energy Union and energy transition policies?
(b) In your opinion, which initiatives and projects can best promote energy diversification and energy security in the EU or the SE Europe and Eastern Mediterranean regions?
To learn more about how to apply and become selected as a delegate for the Academy, the agenda, the sessions, the speakers and more, stay tuned here. More info will come soon.
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