 ensuring consistency between national and European views; 

 knowledge sharing between stakeholders and among Member States and associated countries, to foster the efficient implementation of RD&I projects all over Europe. 

The Contractor  shall also organise at least three webinars on salient topics in the smart energy networks domain. The subjects of these webinars shall be defined with the ETIP SNET Governing Board based on input from the Working Groups. They must be approved by INEA. 

## Task 5: Organisation of BRIDGE operational meetings 

## 1.4.3.2. Support to the BRIDGE initiative 

 Maintenance of the list of BRIDGE members in terms of projects and organisations and their membership in Working Groups and Task Forces. 

 Organisation of the BRIDGE General Assembly including invitations, hosting, minutes and follow up on action points (once per year, usually in March, face-to-face in Brussels). 

 Organisation of Working Group and Task Force meetings including invitations, minutes and follow-up on action points (on average 3 meetings per year and Working Group/Task Force, mainly remote or on EC premises in Brussels). 

 Support to the work of the Working Groups and Task Forces, e.g., editing their documents; organising surveys; preparing slides; and collecting their results. 

## Task 6: Publications from BRIDGE 

 Prepare and maintain a standard set of slides for introducing BRIDGE. 

 Edit reports with recommendations for EU policy makers (one report per year). 

 Prepare eight case studies from results of BRIDGE projects (2 per working group) with support from the projects; a case study should not present results from only one project but integrate results of several projects and link them to concrete market needs for potential exploitation. 

 Collect project factsheets and update the BRIDGE brochure (once per year in March). 

 Prepare an EC-internal report for the assessment and analysis of the consolidated results of EU projects supported under the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe calls and topics in the scope of BRIDGE, assessing them against the call objectives and expected impacts, addressing aspects related to technological progress, validation of results and remaining gaps, and formulate recommendation for future R&I priorities and energy market regulation. 

