New project funding secured!

NTCenter has secured funding for two new projects, both financed by the Bulgarian National Agency for the Erasmus+ programme. One of them is focusing on developing a pathway to improve and promote training for young specialists in the fields of culture and cultural artefacts with the help of digital tools. The project design complements this…

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Preliminary data from focus groups on fact-checking

As part of our Disinfo Academy project, we organised a number of focus groups covering all participating countries: Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The focus groups’ sessions took around two hours and we presented the participants with video-based news and recorded their screens as they proceeded to verify the information. As we are…

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Our 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…

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dBias 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…

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NTCenter 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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Citizenship Education in Europe: Formative Assessment

Starting in December 2021, we are embarking on another challenging journey alongside colleagues from Belgium, Norway, Portugal, Italy, Czechia and Slovenia. Partly reaffirming a previous successful partnership, we are now in a more academic company attempting to find a solution to support Citizenship Education (CE) in partner countries with an appropriate and well-targeted assessment toolbox.…

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Conspiracy Theories: A Deconstruction Model

NTCenter maintains a continuous focus on disinformation and disinformation related-cognition. With the financial support of the Erasmus+ programme of the EU, we are launching InTACT, a 30-months project on conspiracy theories. Our working hypothesis is that we can apply a methodology similar to the one we had recently adopted in De Facto for building resilience…

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dBias: early summer update

Our first joint-staff training took place in April and was intended to give insights on how to make a successful short video for the purpose of telling about cognitive biases in education context. As a follow-up to the training, national teams started drafting scenarios for videos, aiming to expose viewer to genuine bias-related situations. This…

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Joint staff training “De-biasing: designing storyboards for videos”

We have the pleasure to announce that the first of two planned learning and training activities within the frame of our The Art of De-biasing Erasmus+ project was successfully completed. The joint-staff training kept busy 18 participants from 8 partner countries between 20th and 29th of April. The activity inevitably took place online, nevertheless it…

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Validation of bias-related examples

For the purposes of the dBias project we are kindly asking fellow educators, preferably those with experience in adult learning (16+), to fill a short survey with which we are attempting to validate both our choice of biases and their exemplification in teaching and learning contexts. This will help us find out how relevant these…

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