Bridge the Gap & Shift to Progress

Empowering automotive regions to bridge gaps and shift toward smarter, greener manufacturing.

Bridge & Shift is a European interregional cooperation project that strengthens collaboration and knowledge exchange between advanced and less-developed automotive regions to accelerate industrial transformation. The project brings together some of Europe’s key automotive regions from Aragon (Spain) and Heilbronn (Germany) to Ostrava (Czechia), Nitra (Slowakia), and Rzeszów (Poland).These regions are located in five countries — Germany, Spain, Czechia, Slovakia, and Poland — which together account for nearly two-thirds of Europe’s total passenger car production

Funded by the European Union’s Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) programme, B&S connects key regional clusters, policymakers, and industry stakeholders to foster innovation, sustainability, and competitiveness across the European mobility value chain.

The project focuses on transferring best practices, building capacity in SMEs, and developing regional action plans and strategic roadmaps that support the shift toward green, digital, and resilient manufacturing. Through joint learning, policy alignment, and practical implementation, B&S aims to create a blueprint for how European regions can bridge development gaps and collectively drive the transition toward the future of mobility.