Challenges and

opportunities in
Construction sector -
The role of innovation, new
technologies and skills eitmanufacturing.eu

30/03/2023,
Dr. Niki.KousiSofia, Bulgaria
@eitmanufacturing.eu
Managing Director
EIT Manufacturing CLC South East
Strong European Community
Europe addresses global challenges in
manufacturing

Digital Sustainability Competition

transformation
Our Vision Our Mission

Bring together manufacturing

actors across Europe to integrate
Global manufacturing
innovation and education for an
innovation is led by Europe.
entrepreneurial and sustainable
Europe.
Partnership| Driven by Industrial needs | 80+ partners from 18 countries
Locations | connecting key Manufacturing &
Innovation Hubs
Legal Entity France
Headquarters Paris
6 Co-location Centers (CLCs)
San Sebastian Spain
Gothenburg Sweden
Darmstadt Germany
Milan Italy
Vienna Austria
Athens Greece
New CLC South East
CLC South East in Athens, GR
Albania,

Bulgaria
Cyprus,
Greece,
Moldova,
North Macedonia
Romania,
Turkey
Our strength

To ensure that innovations reach the market,

industry has the right talent and
entrepreneurs can thrive,

EIT Manufacturing connects and integrates the

areas of education, innovation and business
creation and the Regional Innovation Scheme
(RIS).

We call these: Pillars

 Goals by 2025-2027
Education: Connecting • 1.000.000 individuals educated, upskilled and
people with competences reskilled
• 10,000 women empowered towards a career in
manufacturing
• 2,000 EIT-labelled Master and PhD
graduates

Achievements
• Pan-European networks of 21 teaching &
learning factories
• Manufacturing digital learning
• 500+ digital learning units
• 4 EIT-labelled Master and 1 PhD programme
• STRADA WOMEN - Targeted at
Female ESTEAM (entrepreneurship,
science, technology, engineering,
arts, mathematics), social science
and humanities, students in MSc and
PhD degrees or women employed in
the manufacturing sector.
SRC4i - SUSTAINABILITY READINESS CHECK for
Industry
Farmwork for sustainable transformation in
industry based on technological and managerial
changes.
(1) training programme for Sustainability Solutions,
(2) Sustainability Readiness Diagnosis Tool and
(3) Sustainability roadmap for employees of
industrial companies
The unique Teaching Factory Approach
 How to get involved?

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Managing Director
niki.kousi@eitmanufactuirng.eu

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