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Call For Applications: Enel Foundation Open Africa Power Program 2025

Blessing Joseph by Blessing Joseph
April 16, 2025
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Call For Applications: Enel Foundation Open Africa Power Program 2025
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This year, the program will engage up to 80 African students, with at least 50% women, and almost 500 alumni in a series of professional development and leadership activities provided in partnership with top academic institutions in Italy and Africa.

Open Africa Power Program 2025 comprises of online and residential modules from academic institutions such the University of Cape Town – Graduate School of Business (”UCT”), African School of Regulation, Politecnico di Torino, Politecnico di Milano, SDA Bocconi.

Program Structure

The Open Africa Power Program will consist of local and international experts from both academia and industry and comprise the following modules:

Digital African Module: State of the Art

This 24-hour module will occur between early June and mid July 2025. It will take place in digital form only. The module, delivered in collaboration with the UCT and African School of Regulation, will explore the fundamentals of the global electricity sector through the lenses of sustainable development goals with specific sessions dedicated to the nexus between energy and gender balance. It will cover the following areas:

  • Networks technology, regulation, economics
  • Renewables technology, regulation, economics
  • ICT digitalization of the electricity industry

Eligibility Requirements

The Open Africa Power selection process is an open, merit-based, competition. The application period opens on April 14th, 2025, and closes on May 16th, 2025.

To be eligible, candidates must meet the following criteria:

a)     Be between the ages of 24 and 35 by April 14th, 2025.

b)     Be a citizen of an African country.

c)     Currently resident in an African country or planning to relocate in Africa within the end of 2025.

d)     Be eligible to travel to Italy. All candidates are invited to check well in advance the   procedure applicable to their specific cases.

e)     Having graduated by April 16th, 2025, from a PhD, MBA or Master’s degree (MSc, LLM, MPP, etc.) degree. Current undergraduate students, people only in possess of a Bachelor’s degree or people who are currently enrolled in a Master’s degree (i.e. graduate students) are not eligible for this program. At least one degree (PhD, MBA, Master’s, Bachelor’s) must be from an African University.

f)     Have competences and a demonstrated interest to pursue a career – in private or public sector – in the electricity space at large.

g)     Be fully proficient in English (CEFR C1 level) and be able to demonstrate this via an official language certificate or completion of at least one degree completely taught in English.

h)     Willingness to promote gender equality and women´s empowerment within and beyond the programme.

 External Partner Online Course

This course will enable the learners to gain a comprehensive vision on how to design appropriate policy and regulatory framework needed to ensure sustainable energy for all. The online course on Energy Sector for Energy Transition, delivered by an accredited external partner, will start in early June and will end around mid-October 2025.

Participants are required to complete a Country Project (individually or as a group).

At the end of the course, the participants can earn a Certificate of Attendance, a Certificate of Completion or a Certificate of Excellence, depending on their performance and engagement throughout the course.

   Italian Module: New Frontiers

The Italian Module comprises two separate learning moments:

i.         A full residential week that will take place in Italy in the second half of 2025. Participants will have direct experience of the new frontiers of the electricity sector, through a number of site visits to innovative power plants, experimental and training labs as well as control rooms. They will be also called to actively interact with prestigious academic partners and research representatives, meet with government, business, and non-profit leaders, engaging in dialogues around the clean energy future of the African Continent.

ii.         An eight-weeks online course from mid-October to early December 2025 where Italian academic partners (Politecnico di Torino, Politecnico di Milano, SDA Bocconi) will deliver lectures on the new frontiers of crucial topics such as Additive Manufacturing, ICT applied to Networks’ Management, Economic and Environmental Impact Accounting, Renewables potential and climate change, Decision-making under uncertainty and the key drivers of the energy transition.

Give Back Module

Upon completion of the Italian module, Enel Foundation could decide to involve the cohort of alumni in teaching activities and events related to its education initiatives in Africa and beyond.

Application Process

Applications are to be filed through our dedicated platform exclusively. We highly invite you to start and complete your application on both Google Chrome and a desktop environment for the best results possible in terms of stability and reliability of the platform. Please click on the link and copy- paste the code written here on the right in order to begin the process.

Applicants must provide:

a)     A copy of their CV (in .pdf format).

b)     Copy of their Bachelor’s and Master’s degree certificates (plus eventual MBA/PhD certificates) AND academic transcripts (in .pdf format).

c)     A copy of their passport (in .pdf format).

d)     A motivation letter (max 700 words, in .pdf format).

e)     Two reference letters from two different industry, academia and/or civil servant representatives (in .pdf format).

Deadline: May 16, 2025

Click HERE to Apply

 

 

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