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Indigenous STUDENT ENERGY Summit SEVENGEN: POWERING RESILIENCE Through Sevengen: Powering Resilience we aim to educate, engage, and empower young people to be the leaders of a sustainable future. The Summit will engage youth in Indigenous-led energy solutions and provide mentorship, academic and career development opportunities for Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth. in January 2019, 200 youth from across Canada will unite in Calgary, alberta the student energy story Since 2009 the International Student Energy Summit has become the largest conference on students on energy, it has been hosted in Vancouver, Norway, Indonesia, Mexico, and in 2019 it will move to London, UK. Our student network is Student Energy’s greatest success story, with over 50,000 students engaged with Student Energy from over 135 countries. Our alumni have gone on to found solar companies, advise the United Nations, and work with some of the most influential energy companies on the planet. Student Energy has kept evolving in order to meet the needs of young people looking to make a difference in energy, climate and sustainability. We host the Energy Systems Map: an ed-tech tool that has connected over 3 million people to the information they need to get engaged with the energy system. We facilitate Student Energy Chapters: university level clubs where we help students develop the skills they need to be energy leaders, take action on energy, and engage their peers. Ours is a uniquely Canadian success story. In 2009, three students at the University of Calgary decided they wanted to contribute to the conversations that were determining the future of energy. Yet, in attending traditional energy conferences, there were no spaces for youth to have a voice or to ask the questions they had about sustainability. Refusing to accept the circumstances that leſt them without a seat at the table, they took matters into their own hands. What started out as one ambitious idea: an interna- tional conference on energy for students, with the leading energy experts and industry leaders in the world engaging with youth, turned into something much bigger. the story of sevengen At the International Student Energy Summit 2017 in Merida, Mexico, Indigenous Youth Summit Co-Chairs Cory Beaver (below), President of the Student Energy at Mount Royal University Chapter and member of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation and Disa Crow Chief (leſt), Natural Resources Canada Generation Energy Youth Champion and member of the Siksika Nation, Blackfoot Confederacy first shared their vision for the Canada- wide Indigenous Student Energy Summit. Now leading our Mount Royal University Chapter, Cory and Disa have decided to put their vision into action, and unite 200 youth across Canada. Their goal is for the youth attending to see that energy and climate action is a way they can impact communities now, throughout their lives, and in their future careers. January 24-27, 2019
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I n d i g e n o u s S T U D E N T E N E R G Y S u m m i t
SEVENGEN: POWERING RESILIENCE
Through Sevengen: Powering Resilience we aim to educate, engage, and empower young people to be the leaders of a sustainable future. The Summit will engage youth in Indigenous-led energy solutions and provide mentorship, academic and career development opportunities for Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth.
in January 2019, 200 youth from across Canada will unite in Calgary, alberta
the student energy story
Since 2009 the International Student Energy Summit has become the largest conference on students on energy, it has been hosted in Vancouver, Norway, Indonesia, Mexico, and in 2019 it will move to London, UK. Our student network is Student Energy’s greatest success story, with over 50,000 students engaged with Student Energy from over 135 countries. Our alumni have gone on to found solar companies, advise the United Nations, and work with some of the most influential energy companies on the planet.
Student Energy has kept evolving in order to meet the needs of young people looking to make a difference in energy, climate and sustainability. We host the Energy Systems Map: an ed-tech tool that has connected over 3 million people to the information they need to get engaged with the energy system. We facilitate Student Energy Chapters: university level clubs where we help students develop the skills they need to be energy leaders, take action on energy, and engage their peers.
Ours is a uniquely Canadian success story. In 2009, three students at the University of Calgary decided they wanted to contribute to the conversations that were determining the future of energy. Yet, in attending traditional energy conferences, there were no spaces for youth to have a voice or to ask the questions they had about sustainability. Refusing to accept the circumstances that left them without a seat at the table, they took matters into their own hands. What started out as one ambitious idea: an interna-tional conference on energy for students, with the leading energy experts and industry leaders in the world engaging with youth, turned into something much bigger.
the story of sevengenAt the International Student Energy Summit 2017 in Merida, Mexico, Indigenous Youth Summit Co-Chairs Cory Beaver (below), President of the Student Energy at Mount Royal University Chapter and member of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation and Disa Crow Chief (left), Natural Resources Canada Generation Energy Youth Champion and member of the Siksika Nation, Blackfoot Confederacy first shared their vision for the Canada-wide Indigenous Student Energy Summit.
Now leading our Mount Royal University Chapter, Cory and Disa have decided to put their vision into action, and unite 200 youth across Canada. Their goal is for the youth attending to see that energy and climate action is a way they can impact communities now, throughout their lives, and in their future careers.
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The 2019 Student Energy Indigenous Youth Summit: Powering Resilience will raise awareness of challenges and opportunities in Canada’s sustainable energy transition from the perspective of Indigenous youth.
By Powering Resilience we aim to educate, engage, and empower young people to be the leaders of a sustainable future defined by new types of relationships and respect for Indigenous peoples and sustainability.
Student Energy and the Summit team are currently forming meaningful partnerships with organizations who can support the Summit’s success. The Summit is an opportunity to underscore commitments to Indigenous reconciliation and community resilience as well as take an active role in supporting opportunities for Indigenous youth in the sustainable energy transition. For partnership opportunities please contact: [email protected].
i n d i g e n o u s S T U D E N T E N E R G Y S u m m i t
SEVENGEN: POWERING RESILIENCE
• Empower Indigenous youth to lead their communities to livesustainability through the intersection of energy, food, water, and thetransition to a sustainable economy. Young people will see that energyand climate action is a way they can have an impact now, throughout theirlives, and through their future work
• Give youth a sense of direction and inspiration to dream big
• Build relationships and alliances among Indigenous and non-Indigenousyouth
• Overcome provincial and geographic barriers to create a truly pan-Canadian dialogue on community resilience, energy and sustainability
• Engage youth in Indigenous-led energy solutions and provide mentorship,academic and career development opportunities in energy andsustainability.• Grow awareness of the energy transition as an opportunity forcollaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples
• Unite a community of hundreds of youth across Canada committed toworking together to deliver energy, climate and sustainability solutions • Young people will leave knowing about the resources and community theyhave to support them in pursuing their ideas, passions, and careers.
our objectives
why sevengen?Our name is inspired by the Lakota prophecy that says the seventh generation is the one that will bring and lead change. Indigenous youth today are the seventh generation who can and will lead change and restore peace
As we lead this summit and aim to inspire youth and all energy leaders. As they make decisions and lead change we want them to embody another part of the seventh generation principle that says the decisions we make today should be sustainable seven generations into the future.
Founding partner $ 75,000+
• 3 Summit Tickets for Staff• Promotional Booth and Signage• Contribute to Post-event Survey• Logo placement
• Support 10 youth bursaries to attend the Summit• Exclusive sponsorship of workshop• Your organization’s opportunity featured in delegate newsletter• Pre-Summit and On-Site Branding
Headline partner $ 50,000+
associate partner $ 30,000+
supporting partner $ 15,000+• 2 Summit Tickets for Staff• Pre-Summit and On-Site Branding
• Support 3 youth bursaries to attend the Summit• Logo Placement
i n d i g e n o u s s t u d e n t e n e r g y s u m m i t
SEVENGEN: POWERING RESILIENCE
partnering with the
• 3 Summit Tickets for Staff• Promotional Booth and Signage• Contribute to Post-event Survey• Premium logo placement
• Support 15 youth bursaries to attend the Summit• Exclusive sponsorship of a Keynote or Plenary• Your organization’s opportunity featured in delegate newsletter• Pre-Summit and On-Site Branding
• 4 Summit Tickets for Staff• Promotional Booth and Signage• Contribute to Post-event Survey• Premium logo placement
• Support 20 youth bursaries to attend the Summit• Exclusive sponsorship of Welcome Dinner• Your organization’s opportunity featured in delegate newsletter• Pre-Summit and On-Site Branding
sponsor a student $ 1,500+Many Indigenous Students face barriers to participation due to the cost of travel and accomodation. Through this contribution you can help one young person access theopportunities we have at the SevenGen Summit. Of the$1,500, $500 will go to cover their entrance, accomodation and hotel, and $1,000 will be granted to the student as a travel stipend. You may direct this sponsorship towards a student, community, or region of your choice. If the selected re-gion requires more than $1,000 in travel you can decide if you would like to provide a larger travel bursary.
