Initiatives

The Bridge curriculum vitae

Our experience is the sum of all the projects, all the world-wide collaborations and all the initiatives that we have taken part in – both as attendees and as organizers. Here you can read more about the initiatives, and even revisit some of them.

TEDxTheBridge

Watch TedxTheBridge, and join the global Countdown! On Tuesday Oct 20, The Bridge joined the TED Countdown, a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, turning ideas into action. Listen when…

COP23

For the second year in a row, The Bridge participated at COP! During the seventh day of the international climate summit COP23 in Bonn, we hosted a side event about collaborative solutions for storm water management in…

COP22

In the textile and fashion industry, conversations about “peak cotton” are very much on the table, and will be a reality in the decades to come. How can cotton even peak? The background to this…

The Bridge Summit 2020

A new way of thinking – and taking action!
2020 has taught us how to do things in a new way. Bringing this with us and building on our award-winning version of #insteadofalmedalen, we are proud to present this year’s version of The Bridge Summit.

The Bridge Summit 2019

The Bridge Summit 2019 was created to be a marketplace for connecting international business with world-class materials and life science research to push for more sustainable growth. The two day summit had inspiring Bridge Talks,…

The Bridge Summit 2017

Our second summit was held in August 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark. 250 international entrepreneurs, opinion leaders, executives and students joined in on two days of inspiration as well as hands on problem solving in our…

The Bridge Summit 2016

Our first summit took place in conjunction with the inauguration of MAXIV, the most modern synchrotron source in the world. We gathered 320 entrepreneurs, researchers, politicians, business leaders and students to discuss and innovate on…