EnTRA – Energy Transition for Climate Neutrality in the BSR
EnTRA builds a resource hub with planning and management tools, training materials, self-audit guides, and a mentoring programme that anchors practical know-how to help public authorities and sectoral agencies scale up the energy transition in the region. EnTRA consolidates outcomes from 18 EU projects.
Main activities:
EnTRA unites 18 energy transition projects and their results: guidance for experts and citizens, simulation and decision-support tools, solution toolboxes, etc.
However, those not involved in a specific project struggle to discover these resources and to understand how to access and use tools and results. After projects end, the momentum of promotion and transfer of results slows or even stops. One-time events and temporary programs do not go far enough to ensure long-term awareness and exploitation.
EnTRA focuses on several key mechanisms to improve consistency of knowledge transfer on energy transition solutions and to enable broad uptake of both technical and governance solutions:
- The EnTRA Resource Hub catalogs results tailored to the needs of users from local or regional authorities and sectoral agencies, with clear communication of the necessary enabling conditions for uptake.
- A Policy Memorandum elaborates key recommendations to improve capacity for uptake of energy transition solutions and reduce barriers to innovation.
- The Institutional Ambassadors Program on energy transition supports organizations to improve their internal capacity for long-term sustainability, communication and transfer of developed solutions to future users.
- The Knowledge Community promotes learning and exchange to build capacity among target groups and improve uptake of results.
Thus, EnTRA maximizes potential for validated solutions to be mobilized for the energy transition.
Project coordinator:
HafenCity University Hamburg
Partner organizations:
Riga Technical University
ZEBAU – Centre for Energy, Construction, Architecture and the Environment Ltd.
Association of Municipalities of Małopolska Region
Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture Secretariat
Tartu Regional Energy Agency
Central and Eastern Sustainable Energy Network CEESEN
European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation NOVUM
Hanse-Parlament
Union of the Baltic Cities Sustainable Cities Commission c/o City of Turku
Project website:
https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/entra/
Duration:
July 2025 – June 2028
Budget:
TBU
Project acronym:
TBU
Outcomes and deliverables of the project
TBU
