EU4Energy is a collaboration between the IEA, the European Union, Focus Countries and other implementing parties, designed to support the aspirations of Focus Countries to implement sustainable energy policies and foster co-operative energy sector development at the regional level. The EU4Energy programme is funded by European Union.
The first Phase of the Programme ran from July 2016 through June 2022, and focused on the countries of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) and Central Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. EU4Energy builds on the success of the long running INOGATE Programme and follows objectives for regional cooperation agreed between the EU and the beneficiary countries.
The EU renewed the EU4Energy Programme for a second phase, which which ran from July 2021 to December 2025, and focused solely on the EU's Eastern Partnership countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine.
Phase III of the EU4Energy Programme began on 1 January 2026 and will run until 31 December 2028, and will continue to focus on the Eastern Partnership countries.
