“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value“ (Albert Einstein) Borislav Bankov leads on GATE’s participation in NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) and in other Alliance initiatives in the sphere of emerging technologies. Until 2021 Borislav worked at the Office of NATO’s Assistant Secretary-General for emerging security […]

Dream it. Plan it. Do it.  Boris Kraychev is an experienced researcher at the Data Analytics Research group at GATE Institute. His research area is focused on natural language processing: opinion mining, document and news classification as well as on recent technologies for Deep Learning and NLP, such as recurrent neural networks, LSTMs, and GRUs. […]

The forum brought together leading researchers, analysts, and experts from across Europe to explore the intersections of technology, policy, and science in building societal resilience to disinformation. The event was co-organised by the Foundation for Humanities and Social Studies – Sofia, the Center for the Study of Democracy, the GATE Institute, Identrics, Graphwise, and Sensika. […]

The event, held on 4 November 2025 at the “John Atanasoff” Hall in Sofia Tech Park, brought together the Centres of Excellence (CoE) and Centres of Competence (CoC), some of which were established under the Operational Programme “Science and Education for Smart Growth” 2014–2020. At its dedicated stand, GATE presented its overall activities and projects […]

The Summit, held at Sofia Event Center under the institutional partnership of the Ministry of Innovation and Growth, addressed the transformation of the European defence ecosystem in response to rapid technological change, geopolitical shifts, and the growing role of dual-use innovation. Bulgaria’s position as a strong industrial and technological hub on NATO’s eastern flank made […]

In addition to being a host, GATE is a co-organizer of the event in partnership with a number of innovation and industrial organizations, including Biotechnology and Health Cluster, Artificial Intelligence Cluster Bulgaria, Cleantech Bulgaria and the European Digital Innovation Hub “Trakia”. The forum brought together over 300 participants from more than 20 countries – representatives […]

GATE Institute, in collaboration with NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre, invites early-stage and senior researchers to take part in the NATO Emergency Response Exercise “BULGARIA 2025”, taking place between 7–12 September 2025 in Montana, Bulgaria. This large-scale international training simulates a civilian crisis scenario, providing a unique opportunity to gather data and test research […]

Apart from his personal professional journey from NATO HQ to the first Center of Excellence in Big Data and AI in Eastern Europe, he also talked about how GATE as a NATO test center generates opportunities for innovative entrepreneurs and how every young person with interest, qualities and skills can become like him part of […]

On September 18 at the Inter Expo Center, event visitors will be able to meet, get inspired and motivated by GATE researchers in person. Through exciting demonstrations, they will present the nature of their work and the activities in the various scientific and applied directions of the Institute – “Future Cities”, “Digital Healthcare”, “Smart Government”, […]

Each company will receive seed funding of €100,000 and guidance, mentoring, and access to renowned testing centres such as the GATE Institute. The application deadline is August 9, 2024, at . Innovations in these areas strengthen defence and security and offer significant civilian applications, contributing to broader societal benefits such as improved energy efficiency, better […]