From 23 to 25 September 2025, the CASTIEL 2 All-Hands Meeting (AHM) took place in Tallinn, Estonia. It brought together representatives of the National Competence Centres (NCCs), Centres of Excellence (CoEs), EuroCC2 & EuroCC4SEE, and CASTIEL 2, as well as members of the Project management team. During the conference, the
The Sofia University team, belonging to the NCC Bulgaria, consulted online Bulgarian SMEs how to prepare and submit proposals for the FFplus Open Call for Business Experiments. Details for experiments in software for electric cars – HPC, AI, Machine learning technologies for improving existing codes. The targeted case includes both
The second annual conference of the Bulgarian section of the Marie Curie Alumni Association was held on 26 and 27 June in the conference hall of the Center for Excellence Universities for Science, Informatics and Technology in Society (UNITE), Lozenets Campus. The event is organized by the Bulgarian section of
The topic for June edition of the series of seminars Tech, Bites & Pints, organized by Selectium and IBS Bulgaria (IT Consulting, Systems Integrator and Software Development companies in Bulgaria) was focused on real, already working applications of artificial intelligence. The goal was to share experience, ideas and examples. The
The largest event for green transformation and development in the region, Green Transition Forum 5.0, was held from June 16 to 20 at the Sofia Event Center. The organizers were Green Transition Forum and Dir.bg. The forum brought together leading experts, politicians and business leaders who discussed ways for Central
More than 150 scientists and experts in the field of large-scale scientific computing from 23 countries participated in the 15th International Conference Large Scale Scientific Computations (LSSC 2025), organized by the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (June 16-20, Sozopol, Bulgaria). The LSSC conference
On June 16, 2025, the Minister of Education and Science Krassimir Valchev visited IICT-BAS at the invitation of the institute’s management. The visit was also attended by the President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member Evelina Slavcheva. The Chairman of the Scientific Council of IICT, Prof. Galya Angelova,
Plovdiv University “Paisij Hilendarski” (PU) is the largest higher education institution in Southern Bulgaria and the second largest in the country after Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. PU’s main activities are training specialists with higher education in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, engineering and social sciences, and conducting research
On 03 June 2025, a hybrid workshop on HPC advanced architectures—Non-conventional architectures—was held at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, one of the three institutions of NCC-Bulgaria. The introductory talk on the topic was followed by a presentation on neurotrophic computing (by an SME participant) and a discussion on the application
A three-day event “EuroCC4SEE Workshop in Belgrade”, organized by the National Competence Center – Serbia, took place at The Palace of Science, Belgrade, Serbia, from 20 to 22 May 2025. The focus of the event was the use of High Performance Computing (HPC), High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) and Artificial
The seminar entitled “Transformational Triggers for Next-Generation Security: Industrial-Scientific Synergy in the Age of AI” with a roundtable, held on 22 October 2025 at the Central Military Club in Sofia,
On October 15, 2025, a workshop within the EUROCC2 project was held, which presented the role of High Performance Computing (HPC), Big Data Analytics (HPDA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as
In early October, an international conference with cybersecurity/HPC training “Future Security Transformation: Synergies in the Post-Information Era” was held in Plovdiv, at the headquarters of the digital innovation hub “Trakia”,
The fifteenth edition of the annual international conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage – DiPP2025 – was held from September 25 to 28, 2025, in
From 23 to 25 September 2025, the CASTIEL 2 All-Hands Meeting (AHM) took place in Tallinn, Estonia. It brought together representatives of the National Competence Centres (NCCs), Centres of Excellence
The Sofia University team, belonging to the NCC Bulgaria, consulted online Bulgarian SMEs how to prepare and submit proposals for the FFplus Open Call for Business Experiments. Details for experiments