Project description
Empowering and enhancing EU energy innovation
To achieve its sustainability and green transition goals, the EU has directed increasing investments, efforts and infrastructure towards encouraging and empowering innovators and key green solutions. Horizon-funded projects have been a key success among these efforts, providing novel and revolutionary technologies and methodologies. The EU-funded BRIDGE Relay project will expand and enhance the impact of the BRIDGE initiative, a European platform for connecting Horizon-funded projects through smart grids, digitalisation and moreso on. To achieve this, the project will act as a high-frequency transmission system, ensuring the collection, organisation, and amplification of data and knowledge from a vast array of EU-funded energy projects, thereby improving cross-project collaboration and increasing their impact on policymaking.
Objective
BRIDGE Relay is a Coordination and Support Action designed to strengthen and expand the impact of the BRIDGE initiative, the European platform that connects Horizon-funded projects in smart grids, storage, islands and digitalisation. The project acts as a high-frequency transmission system, ensuring the collection, organisation and amplification of knowledge generated by more than 100 EU-funded energy projects. Its mission is to provide structured support to evidence-based policymaking, facilitate cross-project collaboration, and enhance the visibility and uptake of research and innovation outcomes.
BRIDGE Relay is organised around three interconnected functions: Signal, capturing and structuring insights and needs emerging from projects and stakeholders; Flow, transforming these signals into actionable and coherent outputs; and Amplification, maximising the dissemination, social acceptance and policy impact of results. The project supports the governance of BRIDGE, facilitates the activities of its four Working Groups (Regulation, Business Models, Data Management, Consumer & Citizen Engagement) and Task Forces, and delivers high-quality editorial products such as annual brochures, case studies, thematic impact papers and a final e-Handbook.
By reinforcing stakeholder engagement, ensuring inclusiveness and co-creation, and fostering synergies with related European initiatives (e.g. ETIP SNET, LIFE CET), BRIDGE Relay consolidates BRIDGE as the European reference point for energy research and innovation. The initiative contributes directly to the EU Green Deal, REPowerEU and the Clean Industrial Deal by promoting interoperability, flexibility, digitalisation and citizen-centred approaches. Through this work, BRIDGE Relay ensures that Europe’s smart energy research community speaks with one voice, supporting a secure, sustainable and competitive energy transition.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels renewable energy
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
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HORIZON.2.5.3 - Energy Systems and Grids
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2025-02
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16129 GENOVA
Italy
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