The Youth Energy Academy (YEA) is an intensive learning experience with a program designed to guide youths from diverse backgrounds towards developing a wholesome understanding about the role of renewable energy applications for sustainable development in communities. The program provides youths with actionable knowledge and skills to become agents of change in the transition to a renewable energy future.

The YEA program blends SEYN’s Energy Academies and Energy Mastercourses to combine theory-based and hands-on sessions. The YEA model uses collaborative or do-it-together (DiT) approaches to focus on distributed, community-oriented solutions, harnessing young people’s creativity and fearlessness to drive inspired action.

Since 2019, SEYN has conducted several iterations of the YEA in close collaboration with partners, targeting young adults (mostly in their twenties) who are passionate about sustainability, renewable energy, community development, entrepreneurship, and climate action, and related subjects. A collaborative and youth-driven effort itself, YEA has engaged an international and diverse group of young people overcoming differences of training backgrounds, experience-levels, gender identity, among others to build a network of ambassadors for sustainable energy for communities.