A high-frequency support action for sensing, transmitting, and amplifying ideas and innovation in the EU energy system

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.