diff --git a/templates/gitlab-ci.yml b/templates/gitlab-ci.yml
index b57372af06c92fb9a920d01bfbcd256211989ae0..ed883661436d1d31ce864e66c8b6dbad5859a184 100644
--- a/templates/gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/templates/gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 # global variables
 variables:
   CONDA_ENVS_PATH: "conda-env"
+  CONDA_BLD_PATH: "conda-env"
 
 
 # Definition of our build pipeline order