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General information about the national YG network

The Young Generation program was started in May of 1994 on the initiative of the president of ABB Atom at that time, Jan Runermark. Today about 30 young employees from the Swedish nuclear industry are active in the Young Generation program each year.

The purpose of the Young Generation program is to ensure a continual qualified transference of expertise from the generation that built nuclear power in the world, to the youth of the present day nuclear industry. The main syllabus with Swedish Young Generation is networking and knowledge transfer.

The network consists of a committee, with one employee from each main company involved, and the YG-members. The committee are organizing the seminars and the overall program of the Young Generation. They also lobby for young professionals within their respective companies to join the network and participate in a “YG-year”. When applying to the “YG-year” the members can chose from different topics, which can be more or less technical. Based upon this topic the members are divided into smaller workgroups of 8-10 persons, preferably from different companies.

The committee arranges three seminars for each “YG-year” - a start-seminar, a mid-seminar and an end-seminar. The end-seminar always interacts with the start-seminar of the next years YG-members. At the seminars a spectra of speakers from different fields are invited. Furthermore, within the groups they agree upon a task in line with their topic to learn more about the industry. The workgroups get together a few times during the year at different locations throughout Sweden, where they work on their task, visit local plants etc. Usually the groups also makes one study trip abroad. At the end-seminar the workgroups present the results of their task. After a fulfilled “YG-year” the member join the Alumni. Members of Alumni are invited to join the mid-seminars, international conferences and local networking activities.