EnTRA – a Northern resource hub facilitating the energy transition
The legacy of the CCI4Change project (2023-2025) lives on as the NDPC becomes a project partner in the Interreg Platform Project EnTRA!
The EnTRA project builds a resource hub that helps public authorities and sectoral agencies across the Baltic Sea Region scale up the energy transition by making existing, validated solutions easier to access, understand and use.
Why?
Across the Baltic Sea Region, numerous projects have developed effective tools, methods and solutions supporting energy transition and climate neutrality. However, after projects end, their results often become difficult to discover and apply. Public authorities and sectoral agencies may struggle to identify which solutions are relevant to their needs and how to implement them in practice.
There is a clear need for a structured approach to transfer this knowledge further, to ensure that tested solutions continue to live on and contribute to long-term change.
How?
To address this challenge, EnTRA brings together 18 energy transition projects and their results into one shared platform. The project is implemented by a consortium of 10 partner organisations and 15 associated organisations from Germany, Latvia, Poland, Estonia, Finland, Denmark and Sweden, led by HafenCity University Hamburg.
Within this consortium, the Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture (NDPC) contributes with a specific perspective: ensuring that the energy transition solutions promoted through the hub also include the cultural and creative approaches needed to support behavioural and mindset change.
The NDPC-led project CCI4Change (2023-2025) is one of the 18 project solutions carried forward into the EnTRA initiative.
What?
EnTRA develops several mechanisms that support the transfer and uptake of energy transition solutions:
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The EnTRA Resource Hub catalogs results from 18 projects and tailors them to the needs of local and regional authorities and sectoral agencies, clearly explaining the conditions needed for their uptake.
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A Policy Memorandum provides recommendations to improve the capacity of organisations to adopt energy transition solutions and reduce barriers to innovation.
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The Institutional Ambassadors Programme strengthens internal capacities of organisations for long-term sustainability, communication and knowledge transfer.
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A Knowledge Community promotes learning and exchange between stakeholders to increase awareness and practical use of existing solutions.
Through EnTRA, the work developed in CCI4Change continues beyond the original project timeline. The CCI4Change toolkit, which supports collaboration between local authorities and cultural and creative actors to engage citizens in reducing energy consumption, becomes part of the EnTRA Resource Hub.
This ensures that creative and cultural approaches to behavioral change are recognized alongside technical and governance solutions, and can be further transferred to new cities, municipalities, and regions across the Baltic Sea Region.
Project Duration
July 2025 – June 2028
Funding
The total budget of the EnTRA project is €1.20 million, of which €0.96 million is funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.
Project Website
https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/entra/
Contact Person at NDPC
Krista Petäjäjärvi, krista@ndpculture.org
