The COVID-19 Activity Tracker (CAT) platform can be used by government and industry organisations to make economic recovery decisions based onforecast estimates.

GATE is a partner in an EU-funded project that has unveiled an open software toolbox designed to streamline and democratize data enrichment pipelines across various industries. The enRichMyData toolbox represents a significant advancement in the data enrichment process, lowering entry barriers and making it accessible to a wider range of stakeholders who encounter difficulties delivering suitable data to feed their analytics solutions.

GATE Institute is one of the partners in the new three-year project to create an environment (ecosystem) for countering disinformation in Bulgaria (CoDE). The initiative is aimed at the general public, business, governmental and non-governmental spheres in Bulgaria, aiming to study and explore the information space. The project will continue until 2026.

Prime Minister Acad. Nikolay Denkov and Deputy Prime Minister Maria Gabriel opened the new high-tech building of GATE – the first institute in Bulgaria and South-Eastern Europe in the field of big data and artificial intelligence. They also started the forum “Up to GATE. Technology, Big Data & Beyond. Open Up for Innovation”.

The conference “Technologies against disinformation 2.0” revealed the current trends in the information war in the digital space, examined methodologies for detecting manipulative content and presented technological solutions developed in Bulgaria to combat disinformation. With the participation of academia, companies and non-governmental organizations, the forum was a significant step towards creating an ecosystem of stakeholders to combat disinformation.

The EU co-funded deployEMDS project was officially launched during the Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress in Barcelona on 7 November. deployEMDS responds to the challenges outlined in the EU Digital Europe Programme and will help make the common European mobility data space a reality.  The initiative will cultivate a broad European ecosystem of data providers and users, facilitating the adoption of common building blocks. Over 20 use cases from nine EU countries will contribute to the development of innovative services and applications.

Researchers from the GATE Institute at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski have produced a research paper using responses to the European Commission’s Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation (CoP) published by Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok and Twitter, in January 2023. This is the first analysis for Bulgaria of the implementation of commitments under the Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation of Very Large Online Platforms (VLOP’s) & Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSE). It is produced in the framework of the BROD project (for establishment of a Bulgarian-Romanian Observatory for Digital Media) coordinated by GATE. In it, the researchers warn about European elections 2024.

GATE Institute is the coordinator of the new EU funded project VELES, which strives to elevate the level of innovation excellence in South-East Europe by establishing a sustainable place-based innovation ecosystem, enabled by the Regional Smart Health Data Space. It aims to leverage cutting-edge technologies such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) to enable personalized medicine, informed decision-making, and enhanced disease prediction.

The Institute “Big data for Smart Society” (GATE) participated as a test center for new technologies from the DIANA network in an information meeting to present the NATO Innovation Fund and the Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA). Event organizers were the Ministries of Innovation and Growth, Defense and Economy and Industry. The event held on 24 April 2023, also featured the Institute of Defense “Prof. Tsvetan Lazarov”, the other test center of DIANA in Bulgaria.

A webinar on media literacy at a national and regional level will be organized by the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO). The meeting will be on March 22, 2023,  from 15:00 to 16:15. Registration is available at: Media literacy at the national and regional level supported by the EDMO hubs (Part 1) – Media and Learning (media-and-learning.eu)