The energy crisis triggered by disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz has served as a systemic stress test for ASEAN’s energy security and economic resilience. It has underscored the urgent importance of secure and affordable energy supplies, diversified energy sources and routes, emergency preparedness, supply chain resilience, and stronger regional co-ordination amongst
stakeholders. In this context, energy security is a central focus of ERIA’s work for the 2026 Fiscal Year (FY2026).
Reflecting these circumstances and broader regional challenges, ERIA’s FY2026
activities are structured around several challenge-based priorities:
- Advancing energy security and the energy transition
- Building resilient supply chains while promoting trade and investment
- Utilising artificial intelligence and broader science and technology
- Responding to population ageing and health challenges
- Achieving a sustainable environment while managing
climate and disaster risks - Enhancing skills and human capital development
Across these priorities, ERIA will also support integrated and practical policy responses, including through industrial policy approaches that may be further developed in the following years.
Through these efforts, ERIA aims to provide a platform for co-ordination across sectors and countries, and for partnerships between governments
and businesses.
This booklet presents ERIA’s research projects for FY2026, organised according to the challenge-based priorities. These projects remain firmly anchored in the three strategic pillars that have guided ERIA since its inception:
Deepening Economic Integration, Narrowing Development Gaps, and Achieving Sustainable Development.
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