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The European Distribution System Operators’ Association (E.DSO), the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E), the Union of the Electricity Industry - Eurelectric (Eurelectric) and the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) have the pleasure of announcing the call for the 7^th Ana Aguado Scholarship Award.
 
Under this joint initiative, two student Scholarships are offered by the above-mentioned Partners for participation in the Summer School on Regulation of Energy Utilities held by the FSR in Florence from 3 to 7 July 2023.
 
The Partners will allocate five other candidates ranked after the two winners with the opportunity to attend for free one FSR online community training courses of their choice. These five free seats will be valid for courses starting between April 2023 and July 2024.
 
Applications should be sent to tiffany.jordan@edsoforsmartgrids.eu by 10 March 2023 midnight (24H00 CET) and include the following documents in English (format and maximum length of the documents must be respected to be taken into consideration):

• A Motivation Letter (max. 2500 characters, spaces included, written and sent in Word or OpenOffice) explaining the reasons for your interest and the role this course could represent for your educational and professional life;
• A Short Essay (max. 4000 characters, spaces included, written and sent in Word or OpenOffice) on the following topic: ‘Energy prices have skyrocketed since mid-2021. Governments in Europe and beyond have mostly come to the rescue of their energy consumers by introducing emergency measures and allocating billions of euros. Please, illustrate briefly one of the measures adopted by a country of your choice to protect consumers, and discuss critically their possible disadvantages’.
• A concise Curriculum Vitae (2 pages max).

Please note that any candidate not respecting the maximum length of the Motivation Letter or the Short Essay will be excluded from the selection process.
 
Candidates should meet all of the following criteria. If just one of the criteria is not met, candidates will equally not be considered as eligible:

• Ongoing or completed university education at Master’s Level in Economics, Engineering, European/International policy/relations/law or similar;
• Proven interest in the energy sector and familiarity with energy policy issues;
• Fluent in English (the FSR course will be taught in English);
• Not more than 3 years’ work or research experience in the energy sector. 

A Committee composed of representatives from the above-mentioned Partners will assess all applications received and select two candidates by 7 April 2023. The two Scholarship winners will be also invited to join the InnoGrid conference organised by E.DSO and ENTSO-E in Brussels in June 2023 (date TBC) for the winners public announcement.