BRIDGE & ETIP SNET new websites released and BRIDGE General Assembly’s Conclusions published (22/07/2022)
Check out the new websites of BRIDGE and the ETIP SNET and read the Conclusions and Next Steps of BRIDGE General Assembly 2022.
CoordiNet: Flexibility Markets can become more Efficient than Reinforcing Electricity Grids (22/07/2022)
On 17th June, CoordiNet hosted a two-day Final Event in Brussels about the harmonisation of European flexibility markets. Collaboration schemes among TSOs, DSOs and consumers in Spain, Sweden, and Greece highlighted the importance of flexibility for the Green Energy Transition.
InterConnect launches its first Open Call (22/07/2022)
InterConnect open calls: €2,1M to finance 14 technological solutions in the European electricity sector.
FARCROSS: New technologies supporting the security of supply in the SEE region amidst integration of Ukraine and Moldova (22/07/2022)
Successful synchronization of ENTSO-E with the Ukrainian and Moldovan grids has impact to the power system.
SYNERGY: The Big Data Platform and AI Marketplace has released its first official platform (22/07/2022)
The SYNERGY project launched the first official release of the SYNERGY platform, Release 1.00, a Big Data Platform and AI Marketplace.
BRIGHT held its first citizen engagement workshop (22/07/2022)
The BRIGHT project held a first citizen engagement workshop in Brussels at the cooperative company DuCoop, which manages the Belgian pilot of the project.
INSULAE held its first consortium meeting in 3 years (22/07/2022)
The INSULAE project held its first consortium meeting after 3 years at the Bornholm's lighthouse.
RE-EMPOWERED: One year since its inception (22/07/2022)
The RE-EMPOWERED project has reached one year of activity and its four pilots have been presented at several events.
Flex Community: edgeFLEX, FEVER and Platone (22/07/2022)
The FlexCommunity: a new knowledge community speeding up the deployment of flexibilities in the energy system.
COMPILE wins the RGI’s 2021 Award “Good Practice Of The Year” (26/01/2022)
The COMPILE project received the “Good Practice of the Year” award in the Communication and Engagement category awarded by the German association Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI)
CoordiNet: Final event (16/06/2022)
Save the date: CoordiNet invites the BRIDGE Community to its final event in Brussels on 16th and 17th June 2022
INTERRFACE: 2nd Annual Flexibility Solutions webinar and open calls results (25/02/2022)
Save the date: INTERRFACE will host the second Annual Flexibility Solutions webinar on 25th Febraury 2022 + The results of the open call are out: 6 new innovators have been selected
CREATORS: Open Call for Community Energy Systems Projects (28/01/2022)
CREATORS launches an Open Call to grant pre-feasibility studies for Community Energy Systems Projects
InterConnect: A New Online Community for Energy Interoperability Enthusiasts (28/01/2022)
InterConnect launches an online community where to meet and engage with key actors bringing interoperability and innovation to the energy sector while accessing first-hand funding opportunities and more
RENAISSANCE tests its approach in replication sites (28/01/2022)
The project RENAISSANCE tested the "RENAISSANCE approach" in the first replication pilots in Vega de Valcarce, Spain through a workshop dedicated to the creation of energy communities
XFLEX: Workshop on flexibility solution in Greece (28/01/2022)
Watch the recording of the X-FLEX online workshop on flexibility solutions in Greece
CROSSBOW: Final conference (30/03/2022)
Save the date: 30th March 2022 CROSSBOW will host its final conference
SAVE THE DATE: BRIDGE 2022 General Assembly (22/03/2022)
Participate in BRIDGE 2022 General Assembly on March 22nd, 23rd, and 24th!
On the 22nd and 24th two plenaries will be held, while on the 23rd several parallel sessions covering a variety of topics will take place.
Registrations will open soon. However, you are already kindly invited to book these days on your agendas
Watch BRIDGE discussion panels at ENLIT 2021 (28/01/2022)
BRIDGE and ETIP SNET representatives appeared and spoke at ENLIT’s EU Project Zone throughout the 3-day conference devoted to collaboration and innovation to solve the most pressing energy-related issues.
You can now watch the event recording online
InterConnect 7 large-scale pilots launch starting in 2021 (27/09/2021)
InterConnect places the foundation for the future of smart energy management solutions by seven connected large-scale test-sites in Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands.
REACT publishes multilingual content on energy transition for their local island communities (27/09/2021)
So that islanders can have a more active role in their own energy independence, they need to better understand how the renewable energy technologies and tools that are being installed by the REACT project in their communities will boost energy efficiency and help them depend less on the mainland grid.
Open Access Webinar on "Dynamics of Community Acceptance" (08/10/2021)
The webinar takes place on October 8th at from 11:00 to 12:00 CEST in collaboration with MISTRAL and E-LAND H2020 project.
The HESTIA project launched its User Engagement workshops at 3 different residential Pilot sites (27/09/2021)
The first 11 months of the HESTIA project has allowed all 19 partners to advance many relevant tasks in order to analyse and identify the characteristics of its 3 different pilot sites (Berchidda-IT, Camille Claudel-FR and Voorhout-NL), to set the baseline for the HESTIA deployment and integration activities, to establish requirements and measurable KPIs that will allow us monitoring and validating the first results of HESTIA platform.
CREATORS leads “Community Energy Systems from the full value chain perspective" workshop at Sustainable Places 2021 (30/09/2021)
CREATORS is participating in Sustainable Places 2021, Europe's first destination for EU research collaboration and market opportunities, gathering more than 150 European projects.
Watch EU-SysFlex and OSMOSE joint webinars on flexibility (27/09/2021)
The EU-SysFlex and OSMOSE project, both from the same Horizon 2020 call on Low Carbon Energy (LCE04), held a series of joint webinars on system flexibility in June which you view online.
"Islands Energy Transition: Experience in H2020 Projects” webinars and Sustainable Places workshop (30/09/2021)
The SMILE project (lead by RINA Consulting) together with IANOS and INSULAE projects – organized a series of events focused on clean energy transition of islands by grouping together 9 sister projects funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation and part of the BRIDGE initiative.
TIGON: a new project flowing on the currents (27/09/2021)
Alternating or direct – that is the question when it comes to electrical currents. The TIGON project team won't answer that question; for them it's not "either or", but "both".
BRIDGE at EUSEW 2021 with session on citizen engagement (13/10/2021)
The BRIDGE initiative will participate in the extended programme of this year's EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) with a session focused on the lessons learned from the various, Smart Grid, Energy Storage, Islands, and Digitalisation Projects projects taking part in BRIDGE.
EU Projects take Centre Stage at Enlit Europe 2021 (30/11/2021)
The BRIDGE Initiative is working with ENLIT for the 4th consecutive year to provide a space to numerous EU funded projects working on Smart Grid, Energy Storage, Islands, and Digitalisation Projects that are contributing to the deployment of renewable sources of energy as well as the digitalisation of the energy system.
Webinar Series OSMOSE / EU-SYSFLEX in June 2021 (15/06/2021)
Horizon 2020 projects EU-SysFlex and OSMOSE would like to invite you to three webinars presenting insights from both projects.
INTERRFACE is calling for innovators (31/05/2021)
INTERRFACE project launches its Open Call for interested third parties.
From waste to grid: re-using resources to achieve energy independence on islands (03/06/2021)
The webinar “From waste to grid: re-using resources to achieve energy independence on islands“, organised by the H2020 projects ROBINSON and IANOS in the framework of the EU Green Week, will take place on 3 June 2021, from 2 pm till 3.30 pm CEST
The BD4OPEM H2020 Open Innovation Marketplace is ready to go! (31/05/2021)
These are extraordinary times. Covid-19 has challenged our creative abilities and has numbed the normal technical, social and cultural interaction associated with collaborative EU projects...
BRIDGE General Assembly 2021 key takeaways (31/05/2021)
Read the conclusions of the BRIDGE General Assembly – the key annual conference of this European Commission initiative that unites Smart Grid, Energy Storage, Islands and Digitalisation Projects to create a structured view of cross-cutting issues.
10 New reports produced by the BRIDGE working groups and task forces now available to download (31/05/2021)
The BRIDGE reports cover a wide range of topics from Regulation, Data Management and Consumer and Citizen Engagement, to energy communities, R&I gaps and replicability and scalability.
CROSSBOW boosts Western Balkans Energy Transition (31/05/2021)
On 12 May, CROSSBOW partners have co-organised with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) Office in Sarajevo the webinar “Western Balkans Energy Transition: evaluating the present for a brighter future Part II”.
Success Story: Crevillent Local Energy Community (31/05/2021)
In the southeast of Spain, the town of Crevillent (Valencia Region) is committed to use as much as possible photovoltaic (PV) solar technology with the objective to become the first local energy community in Spain. In this way, residents will consume self-generated electricity from PV panels, which will be collectively owned.
Watch the TRINITY Coffee Breaks (01/06/2021)
The COVID-19 crisis has changed many aspects of our daily life, such as coffee breaks during on-site events and consortium meetings.
RENAISSANCE Survey Glossy Report shows the level of social acceptance of energy communities in Europe (01/06/2021)
The “RENAISSANCE survey on renewable energies and community-based solutions” was launched in spring 2020 and the full Glossy Report of the survey results is available on the project website.
The EU-funded H2020 project PLATOON is looking for bottom-up projects to help digitising the energy sector (04/01/2021)
The 1st PLATOON Open Call will distribute €900,000 among 6 bottom-up projects to develop core functional and\or technical building blocks and new analytics tools for PLATOON’s large-scale pilots. 6 SMEs will enter the PLATOON Support Programme benefiting from technical mentoring services.
INTERRFACE is organizing its first Flexibility Solutions webinar on 25 February (Thursday) 9.30-12.30 CET.
Check out InterConnect's Webinar Series on Open Data and Data Protection (19/02/2021)
The InterConnect project has launched in September 2020 an initiative named “InterConnect Webinar Series”. The webinars, organised every two months, are focused on two main topics, open data and data protection, in the energy and ICT domains.
COMPILE Wins the “Energy Efficient Project 2020” Award! (16/02/2021)
The COMPILE project, with an example of the first self-sufficient energy community in Slovenia, led by partner Petrol d.d., was nominated in the category “Energy Efficient Project” together with three other projects. It won both the prize by the selection of an expert committee and by the readers of the newspaper Finance.
The BRIDGE Initiative welcomes 22 new projects! (17/02/2021)
BRIDGE is proud to welcome 22 new projects dedicated to innovating the EU’s energy system and sharing their best practices.
2021 BRIDGE General Assembly takes place on 2nd, 3rd and 4th of March (17/02/2021)
The next BRIDGE General Assembly presenting the latest developments of the initiative will take place Online on March 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 2021.
About (17/02/2021)
BRIDGE is a European Commission initiative which unites Horizon 2020 Smart Grid, Energy Storage, Islands, and Digitalisation Projects to create a structured view of cross-cutting issues which are encountered in the demonstration projects and may constitute an obstacle to innovation.
The BRIDGE process fosters continuous knowledge sharing amongst projects thus allowing them to deliver conclusions and recommendations about the future exploitation of the project results, with a single voice.
The E-LAND Toolbox: Aligning ambitions and expectations in a successful two-day workshop (18/02/2021)
The E-LAND consortium organized a 2-day workshop with the Indian collaboration partners BSES Yamuna Power Limited and Auroville Consulting to set ambition on Indian piloting.
First NESOI Open Call closes with 117 applications! (18/02/2021)
The European Island Facility NESOI offers grants of up to € 60k per proposal as well as up to € 60K worth of Technical Assistance to help local European islands reach their energy transition ambitions.
SAVE THE DATE! EnergyShield to hold online event on cyber-resilient EPES infrastructure. (15/04/2021)
The EnergyShield Consortium is preparing an online workshop to promote the EnergyShield project and engage different stakeholders in cross-domain topics.
