All the officials and Commissioner Maria Gabriel stressed the importance of the EDIH as the main pillar on which all digitisation in construction will be based. EDIH has brought together the experience, knowledge and skills of 11 partners – the Chamber of Architects in Bulgaria, the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, the Institute of Mechanics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Higher School of Civil Engineering “Lyuben Karavelov”, as well as leading companies in the field of innovation, construction, project management, construction materials production and information technology in the face of “Cleantech Bulgaria” Ltd, “Geostroy” AD, “Planex” Ltd, “Bulgarian Association for Project Management in Construction”, “Baumit Bulgaria” and “Esri Bulgaria”. EDIH has the capacity and skills to be at the heart of the digitalization of the construction sector in Bulgaria, Maria Nakova emphasized. She also noted the four main objectives of the work of EDIH in the construction sector – to enable companies to test innovations and new products before deciding whether to invest in their purchase, training and capacity building to work with new technologies, providing access to finance and helping to establish links and work together with partner organisations, recalling that Bulgarian companies will have access to the network of 150 EDIHs in Europe.
The construction sector is also in the focus of the European Commission and is one of the most important for the European economy, it became clear from Commissioner Gabriel’s words. “Innovation needs flexibility and spaces to develop. Our ambition is to have 100 regional innovation valleys in the EU. To be such an innovation valley, there needs to be cooperation between a highly and a less developed area,” said Maria Gabriel, explaining that the budget for this is €10 billion. She pointed out that the Bulgarian construction sector can also look for partners to create an innovation valley in Europe, and there is already a working platform for finding such partners.
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