00:08I'm really glad to receive the Chairman of the National Committee of Kosovo. Hi Franvaa.
00:13Hi. Let's talk about Women in Energy. It started because of the low number of women participants
00:21at SIGRE, currently about 8%. You are leading Women in Energy in Kosovo. Why does an organization
00:28like SIGRE need more women? Well, the energy sector globally was perceived and tailored for men.
00:36Men working in mining, men working in generation. But now as we see more renewable energy project
00:43being developed, we see interest of women being involved in the sector and working on developing
00:50renewable energy. And we call it energy transition. It does include other women who are not engineers,
00:59but women in engineering is present everywhere. And SIGRE has given a platform for women in engineering
01:06to try to boost their presence and try to find a better way on how to have more women in
01:14the sector
01:15and increase this number that you mentioned. And it is like a stand-down. It is changing all over the
01:20world.
01:20It is changing all over the world. And it depends on how much countries want to invest in that.
01:27And there are some countries that want to invest more in programs for women in involvement. And some countries
01:33are still waiting for the best practices to do that. So we hope with SIGRE involvement and SIGRE presence
01:41will be in the position to show the best cases and attract them to work more on these women in
01:47energy programs.
01:48Talking about best practices, you yourself participated as a role model on a program that can be scalable
01:55all over the world. Can you tell us more about it to inspire us?
01:59It was a program that we have from the 120 women, actually girls, we have selected 26 to go in
02:09a two-year program
02:10in the U.S. to study energy-related programs and courses. And all of them came back after two years.
02:19And all of them are employed in the energy sector, some of them in the private sector, some in the
02:24public sector.
02:26And the project is very scalable and very measurable because we see them every day working, being employed.
02:35Exactly. And we see them on TV and we present them as the next members of SIGRE National Committee.
02:42So this is the added value of SIGRE being a role model for women in energy.
02:47And you are still following them, you are still in contact with them.
02:50And mentoring. Even I went to see them in America while they were studying.
02:55So I was very happy to be a part of the whole process.
02:59Of course.
02:59From being a role model to now mentoring and in a way taking care on how they are working,
03:07what are they doing, whether they are pursuing further studies. I do that as well.
03:11And it's not only about young girls. We need the young generation to join SIGRE at NGN.
03:19How do you manage to attract them to become members of your national committee?
03:25Well, we are very present on LinkedIn and Facebook and we go and visit collective members and we tell them
03:33about the possibilities SIGRE is giving.
03:37Not only through women in energy, but NGN, new generation networking.
03:42And we try to attract them and ask them to prepare papers and come to SIGRE and be present.
03:48And when they are present here, then they see, you know, what is being done and they want to come.
03:53But one thing that is hindering our engineers, young engineers, is that they don't have freedom of movement.
04:01So they need visa. So this is something that, you know, at the moment we cannot help.
04:06But we hope that through their engagement, we will achieve even that.
04:10They will come and we will have them in person here in SIGRE.
04:16And you will tell them all about Paris session.
04:19I will tell them all about SIGRE.
04:21When I come back here, I will organize a briefing and I'll tell them about Paris session with all these
04:27pictures and TV interviews.
04:29Yeah.
04:30Thank you. Thank you for coming by.
04:32Thank you so much.
04:32Thank you so much for being here.
