The Cluster Sofia Knowledge City extends its most sincere greetings to all members, partners and supporters! We thank everyone who shared their experience, knowledge and empathy in achieving our goals. On the eve of the Christmas holidays, we wish you health, personal happiness and professional aspiration. May the New Year 2026 be fruitful and bring innovative ideas and significant successes in the development of the city of knowledge!

New posts are now available (BG versions):

• Annual newsletter for 2025
• INVESTech project video

Launched by the European Commission in 2021, the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative is a financial instrument to transform the "built environment" in Europe through a holistic approach to the design of buildings, open spaces and neighbourhoods.

The initiative supports the implementation of solutions that are not only sustainable, but also inclusive and aesthetic, respecting diversity, traditions and culture. The built environment, as a major economic sector, has a strong impact on resources, the environment and climate change. Due to population growth and increasing urbanization, the built environment needs new and updated urban assets that directly impact individual well-being and societal functioning.

prof. Antoaneta Kirova - Cluster Sofia Knowledge City

This article is a brief report on the participation of the Bulgarian partners in the INVETech - Project Ref nr. 101143958, ERASMUS-EDU-2023-PEX-COVE, in events in Piraeus, Greece on 18 - 20 November 2025, as a part of the implementation ot this project.

The events were organized by the project partner IDEC, a company specializing in business consulting, training services, and high-tech applications.

The November event marked the realization of the 1st CO.FUN LAB (Promoting European collaboration and making full use of European financial instruments).

The INVESTech project aims to develop national centres of vocational excellence (CoVEs) in five countries and to interconnect them in a functional network. This objective is based on the conclusion that CoVEs typically operate at two levels:

National level -  a national or regional CoVE can be established in each country, based on a model that is closely embedded in the local innovation ecosystems and responds to the real needs for excellence in VET in a given sector or region. The national CoVEs in this project are not intended to build new VET institutions and infrastructure in their countries from scratch.