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The European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW 2026) will take place in Brussels on 9-11 June 2026 under the theme “A clean, secure and competitive Energy Union.” As the flagship event for European energy policy, it offers a critical platform to influence the narrative of Africa-EU cooperation. The Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP) Secretariat and European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) will co-organise a session on “How Europe’s Energy Security is intertwined with Africa’s Green Industrialisation” on Thursday 11 June at 9:30 CET in the Charlemagne building, De Gasperi room.
The 23rd AEEP Energy Talks on 8 April 2026 (11:00-12:30 CET/12:00-13:030 EAT), organised jointly with OpenMod4Africa, will delve into the electrification of transportation in Africa. Two case studies have been developed under the OpenMod4Africa project, an initiative aimed at advancing open-source energy modelling capacity across Africa to support evidence-based energy planning. The studies focus on Ethiopia and Senegal.
On 4 March 2026, during the Africa Energy Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa, a Deep Dive session hosted by AUDA NEPAD and organised together with the African Union Commission (AUC), the EU-funded Continental Energy Programme in Africa (CEPA), the German-funded Accelerating the Energy Transition in Africa (ENGAGE), as well as GET.invest and the Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP), aimed at enhancing Africa’s pipeline of bankable power infrastructure projects and encourage cooperation with the private and public sectors.
The Africa–EU Energy Partnership (AEEP) will host the 22nd AEEP Energy Talks on 26 February 2026 (11:00–12:45 CET | 13:00–14:45 EAT) under the theme “Financing SDG7 in Africa: Africa–Europe collaboration in a changing geopolitical environment.”
The online session will examine how Africa–Europe cooperation can accelerate progress toward SDG7 in a shifting global financing landscape and will launch the latest AEEP report on European financial flows to SDG7 in Africa. Registration is now open.
AEEP enters 2026 on a reflective note, where we look back at the developments, milestones, and the challenges of 2025 through the lens of our Steering Group (SG) members. In conversations with Philipp Knill, Deputy Director General Africa at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and General. Mohamed Ossama Eissa, Head of Central Administration for International Cooperation & Agreements with the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy, the AEEP delves into questions of what are the key achievements?, what are the challenges that remain?, and what’s the way forward?.