Topical challenges to global governance provide relations between the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) with a more than ever fertile ground for cooperation. The struggle of multilateralism and the fight against the pandemic offer the AU-EU partnership a unique opportunity to rise as one of the main forces leading global recovery initiatives and demonstrating the great value of multilateral cooperation.

This event will aim at presenting the results of “Africa’s Energy Future”, the joint research conducted by the Energy Security Transition (EST) Lab @energycenter – Politecnico di Torino and Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) on energy leapfrogging in Sub Saharan Africa, and, particularly, the two products delivered by this collaboration: the report “Africa's energy future” and the related interactive web platform. The conference will be focused on evaluating the chance for the African continent to leapfrog from a condition of low to no electrification, to fully sustainable and universal