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BROD project kick-off in Sofia
January 26-27 sees the official start of the Bulgarian-Romanian Observatory of Digital Media, the regional hub against disinformation, part of the larger European anti-disinformation EDMO network. The GATE-AI Institute at Sofia University is coordinating the project and NTCenter is the lead partner for activities related to training & training resources. This is an exciting start…
Read MoreTest seeking to reveal susceptibility to disinformation and conspiracy theories launched
The third international meeting of the InTACT partners took place at the end of September in Kroměříž, the Czech Republic. During the meeting, the partners discussed the progress of the project so far and the upcoming tasks. They agreed on the final structure of the self-assessment test for sensitivity to disinformation and conspiracy theories and…
Read MoreOur work on disinformation continues
Earlier this year we entered a consortium that submitted a successful bid under the Digital Europe Programme for the Bulgaria-Romania Observatory of Digital Media. The project, under the acronym BROD, will be monitoring, investigating and explaining disinformation as it appears in digital media in Bulgaria and Romania. BROD will be the regional hub in a…
Read MoreNTCenter’s family of disinformation-related projects adds a new member!
We are excited today by news coming from Belgium where we applied earlier this year for another expansion of our flagship disinformation and misinformation applied research and development work. We are now a long way from where we started back in 2018 with De Facto. And here we are today, celebrating a successful application that…
Read MoreInTACT project getting closer to a milestone
Last year we launched InTACT, a project inspired by De Facto. InTACT’s concept includes a full training model, starting with a self-assessment test to determine individual susceptibility to conspiracy theory beliefs, a novel deconstruction approach where conspiracy theories will be “disassembled”, just as engineers and hardware technicians disassemble a piece of equipment to show students…
Read MoreALiCE in the Wonderland of Citizenship Education
After months of desktop research and data collection, ALiCE is getting closer to a key event – a training workshop in Kromeriz, CZ, for teachers in Citizenship Education (CE) and those who teach other subjects focusing on competences related to CE. As the focus on the project is to design and develop methods for adequate…
Read MoreSkillability platform goes online this summer!
The summer of 2022 will finally see the launch of the Skillability platform! Skilltalent.eu connects artists and talents with disabilities and those who are looking for ways to support individuals that have somewhat restricted access to the labour market, but are willing to put an effort towards greater financial independence and social integration. The platform…
Read MoredBias enters a critical stage
Our dBias project that attempts to validate a model where, by means of realistic situations constructed around teacher-learner interaction and filmed on video, we will be able to identify the presence and relative strength of a range of biases. Starting with close to 200, we narrowed down the list of cognitive biases for our experiment…
Read MoredBias Newsletter#2
The second issue of the dBias newsletter features some of the core team members and shares their views on the project impact at personal and organisational level. The partners were asked to answer two key questions: In what way does the participation in dBias project change your mindset? How do you think the project will impact your…
Read MoreNTCenter with a contract to support the Horizon Europe programme
During the summer of 2021 we joined a large international consortium in a bid for a 7-year contract for the establishment, support and development of a network for national contact points (NCPs) in Horizon Europe‘s Cluster 2, “Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society“. Horizon Europe is the EU’s flagship programme for large-scale research projects, a continuation…
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