A new project for NDPC: we are a project partner in EnTRA!

A new project has been launched: EnTRA, Energy Transition for Climate Neutrality in the Baltic Sea Region (2025-2028). In the coming years, EnTRA will build a resource hub facilitating the energy transition in this focus area, and the role of NDPC here is to ensure that the hub and the solutions it promotes also include the cultural, soft approach needed in the transition.

The NDPC-led project CCI4Change (2023-2025) is one of the 18 project solutions carried forward in EnTRA. Through EnTRA, the legacy of the NDPC-led CCI4Change project continues beyond its original timeframe and geographical scope. CCI4Change demonstrated how local authorities can work together with cultural and creative professionals to engage citizens in reducing energy consumption through creative climate actions and behavioural change, and the learning of the project have been encapsulated in the CCI4Change toolkit, accessible here.

In EnTRA, the practical toolkit and collaboration model developed in CCI4Change become part of the EnTRA Resource Hub, making these tested methods accessible to new cities, municipalities, and organisations. In this way, the cultural and creative approaches to energy transition, focusing on shifts in attitudes and mindsets alongside technical solutions, are carried forward and embedded into a broader platform supporting long-term uptake of energy transition practices.

Through EnTRA, the story of CCI4Change continues, tapping into the more subtle layers of the shift in attitudes and mindsets for more sustainable energy consumption. Overall, the EnTRA platform focuses on several key actions needed; for example, the EnTRA Resource Hub catalogs results tailored to the needs of users from local or regional authorities and sectoral agencies, and the Policy Memorandum will elaborate key recommendations to improve capacity for uptake of energy transition solutions and reduce barriers to innovation.

NDPC is looking forward to collaborating with the EnTRA partners and further promoting the learnings and approaches created in the CCI4Change! EnTRA consortia consists of 10 partner organisations and 15 associated partners from Germany, Latvia, Poland, Estonia, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden. The lead partner is Hafen City University Hamburg. The project is co-funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region in timeperiod of July 2025 until June 2028.

Learn more about EnTRA in the project section of our website