International Projects
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…
Read MorePreliminary 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…
Read MoreUNCONTROVERSIAL
NTCenter is pleased to announce that following a successful submission of a proposal under Erasmus+, a new 3-year project has been approved for funding by the Belgian National Agency for Erasmus+ – EPOS. UNCONTROVERSIAL, as the project is named, will attempt to design and test a solution to a problem many teachers experience in class…
Read MoreSchools put together teams and select national cultural heritage objects
Teams have been set up within three of the Bulgarian schools that take part in the 3D printing project – The National High School of Applied Arts “Trevnenska shkola”, Tryavna, Maths and Science High School “Academician Ivan Gyuzelev”, Gabrovo and SU “St’ Paisiy Hilendarski”, Zlatitsa. Furthermore, an important step has been taken: the careful selection…
Read MoreStudy of cognitive biases has completed the data-gathering stage
The study of cognitive biases occurring in education and training settings which we have been designing, preparing and running for the Erasmus+ project dBias (https://dbias.eu) has now completed its intensive data-gathering stage. We placed a number of short videos which we had produced earlier on a bespoke online platform where respondents were asked to register…
Read MoreBROD 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 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…
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