Platform · AEYF
A Place for the Next Generation to Shape Energy.
Youth enterprise, innovation and policy participation belong at the centre of Africa's energy conversation.
Purpose
Close the Distance Between Talent and Opportunity.
The Centre's youth, enterprise and policy platform: it moves credible youth-led energy ventures towards investment, procurement and pilots.
Who It Is For
Young innovators, energy entrepreneurs, emerging policy leaders and the organisations that support youth enterprise.
What It Is
The Africa Energy Youth Forum is the Centre's dedicated platform for youth, enterprise and policy. Africa does not lack young people with ideas; the harder gap sits between a technically sound solution and the capital, procurement access, policy clarity and operating relationships needed to scale it. AEYF is built around that gap.
How It Works
Selected youth-led ventures are brought into a dedicated innovation pavilion, prepared for serious investor conversations and connected with established energy companies. Youth delegates get a formal route into continental policy discussion through the Youth Parliament.
Its Own Arrangements
Applications, participation, selection and dates are managed by AEYF on its own website, which is where anything time-sensitive is published. The Centre does not take applications on its behalf.
The Engagement Model
Four Parts. One Pathway.
How AEYF is built, part by part.
Innovate
Bring forward ventures and ideas that address real energy challenges.
Connect
Build relationships across enterprise, industry and investment.
Influence
Contribute to energy policy discussion through the Youth Parliament.
Scale
Find the support and the connections that help a venture grow.
Continue With AEYF
Your Next Step Starts on the Official Platform.
Applications, participation and current dates are managed by AEYF on its own website. Each link opens it in a new tab.
A Connected Portfolio
AEYF complements YEEIP's national training and incubation ambition. They have separate arrangements, and conference admission does not include AEYF participation.