SUMERNET Young Professionals

If you're an Southeast Asian youth (15 - 30) with a bold and actionable idea for cleaner, smarter and more inclusive cities, this is your chance to shine.

Youth for Energy Southeast Asia (Y4E-SEA) and Society of Renewable Energy are excited to launch the SAYEF 2025 Youth Academic Essay Competition – Urban Energy Edition!

Write an original 1,000 - 1,500-word essay exploring one of these tracks:
- Track 1: Breaking barriers to clean energy in cities
- Track 2: Driving demand for clean transport in cities
- Track 3: Amplifying young voices in city energy decisions
- Track 4: Innovation and enterprise for urban energy solutions

🎁 Top 3 essays will get a full access pass to attend SAYEF 2025 - Southeast Asia’s premier youth energy forum, with policymakers, city leaders & innovators in Kuala Lumpur this October. Other benefits include:

Full access pass to all SAYEF 2025 events and sub-events
- Funding support to Kuala Lumpur to attend SAYEF 2025 (10-12 October 2025)
- 15-minute presentation pitch during the SAYEF
- Spotlighted on Y4E-SEA and partner’s digital media channels and website
- Opportunity to collaborate on future Y4E-SEA research projects

🔗 Submission link: https://lnkd.in/g4yupPT6
📅 Deadline: 16 August 2025 (11:59 PM GMT+7)
✅ Open to all Southeast Asian nationals/residents aged 15 - 30
🗓️ Finalists will be announced in September and awarded during SAYEF 2025 (11 October 2025)".

For more information: https://www.youthenergysea.com/sayef

To all outstanding young leaders from Southeast Asia!

Want to build up your early-career leadership and experience? Apply for the 2025 Young Leaders Dialogue for your chance to join the intensive workshops in Australia and Kuala Lumpur.

Apply here: https://q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_3NMuYB58kEWT4TY

Deadline: 19 August 2025

Calling all bright young professionals from Cambodia, Laos and Thailand! Join the MTT fellowship program to enhance your career.

Apply before 3 August 2025!

🚨 | Mekong Thought Leadership and Think Tanks Program ( ) is opening a call for an entry- or mid-level professional who is a Mekong citizen (Cambodia, Lao PDR, or Thailand) with research, policy, communication, and/or program management experience in water, energy, and climate, and communications sectors.

📌 Apply before 3 August 2025, 23:59 (Bangkok/Indochina time) and seize this incredible opportunity to contribute to positive change in the !

🔗 For more info: https://buff.ly/rEzfA3R

SUMERNET Young Professionals

See the official introduction video of SYP, an inspired network of young professionals across the Mekong Region. Let's continue to build a supporting network for early-career and young professionals through collaborations and knowledge-sharing activities.

🚀 Ready to make a difference? Register now as an SYP member: https://bit.ly/sypregister

Introduction to SUMERNET Young Professionals (SYP) Welcome to SUMERNET Young Professionals (SYP)—a dynamic network of emerging changemakers from across the Mekong Region. Our mission is to empower young profe...

Take a look back at our 2024 highlights in this video! For the first time, SYP hosted national networking events in Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and China. These events focused on raising awareness, building capacity, and fostering collaborations among young and early career professionals to tackle environmental challenges in the Mekong Region.

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Highlights from SYP National Networking Activities in 2024 In 2024, SUMERNET Young Professionals united bright minds from across the Mekong Region through national networking events in China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand,...

Microplastics pollution—another urgent call to action.

Read our latest blog from national networking event in Thailand on why microplastics pollution is an urgent problem in our region.

Full recording of seminar:

https://youtu.be/kNh39rfmxfs?si=EDUf5ic4AdQG0c7R

Did you know are not only in the oceans but also in the rivers and farmlands of the ? This silent pollutant is impacting ecosystems, livelihoods, and even the food we eat.

This new blog reflects on the event hosted by SUMERNET Young Professionals in Thailand to highlight the pressing issue of microplastics and underscore the importance of research, policy, media, and youth engagement in driving meaningful change.

📖 Read the full blog: https://www.sumernet.org/story/preview/unraveling-the-danger-of-microplastics-in-the-mekong-region

We're proud to have shared our work at Can Tho University's Stakeholder Meeting on Dec, 6, 2024.

Championing partnerships is part of our priorities. The shared experience between UK-Mekong region can bring more collaborations to how we empower young professionals to tackle the shared challenges in the Mekong Region and beyond.

Stay tune for more updates!




Sustainable Mekong Research Network

Here comes another addition to our blog based on our mission to deliver national networking events. This time, based on the experience networking with young professionals from China 🇨🇳.

Happy reading!

🌟 Empowering Youth for a Sustainable Future! 🌟

Check out this new story from SUMERNET Young Professionals on how young people in are leading the way towards sustainable development in the . 🌏✨

💡 Read more here: https://www.sumernet.org/story/empowering-youth-for-sustainable-development-pathways-perspectives-of-youth-in-china 💪💚

Highlights from the national networking event in Hanoi, Vietnam, recapped in a blog ✍️.

Happy reading!

🌏 New story from SUMERNET Young Professionals 🎉

On June 21, 2024, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) in Hanoi buzzed with energy as young researchers and professionals gathered for a pivotal networking session. This National Networking event helped to strengthen a generation of thought leaders for a more resilient .

💡 Dive into the story here to see how these young professionals are shaping the future 👉 https://www.sumernet.org/story/sumernet-young-professionals-national-networking-in-vietnam-fostering-knowledge-sharing-and-connectivity

What’s been in the discussions from ? Take a look at the highlights captured by our forum artist!

"Go fast, go alone.
Go far, go together!”

🔎 LOOK: A visual summary of our collective insights on communication strategies, key practices, actions, and approaches to strengthen water, energy, and climate research and policies for a at the

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