TECHnological Transformation Of the Built Environment. Understanding Digital Innovations (TECH.TO-BE)

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Description

While digitalisation promises greater efficiency, sustainability, and integration, fragmented knowledge, isolated implementation, uneven diffusion and the limited participation of underrepresented groups (especially women and Young Researchers and Innovators) constrain its transformative potential. 

The COST Action embraces digitalisation as a complex process, including the human dimension, rather than the mere adoption of technologies, through three interlinked objectives.

• Develop a harmonised map of digital applications in AECO, based on an online and free pan-European database and a shared taxonomy to overcome the fragmented and inconsistent knowledge of digital developments.
• Create an accessible-to-all inventory of use cases that narrates the measurable multi-dimensional effects of digital implementations to counteract the isolated implementation and integration of digital solutions.
• Provide a transferable blueprint, with particular attention to less digitalised countries, to overcome uneven diffusion of digitalisation across social, environmental and geographical contexts.

Project objectives

With this holistic approach the Action fosters dialogue between academia, industry, policymakers and civil society to coordinate and propel the European twin transition. While transforming previously independent efforts into structured, collaborative progress, Tech-TO.BE places the human dimension at the core. The participants in this COST Action, from different countries and sectors, and of various networking initiatives, will pave the way to promising careers and the development of groundbreaking international projects toward a fair, innovative and sustainable built environment.

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