DIH Trakia (Cyber4AllSTAR EDIH) joined the “AI for Companies” pan-European training course as a partner and contributor, delivered through the EDIH Network and organised by Inneürope. The programme ran fully online for 5 weeks (30 hours), targeting SMEs, startups and mid-caps across Europe, and was offered free of charge (funded by the European Commission).
Our contribution – Module 4: responsible and ethical use of AI
As part of the programme, Dr. Hristian Daskalov, Chairman of DIH Trakia, delivered Module 4, “Ethics, Regulation and Good Practices in AI”, focused on how organisations can adopt and scale AI responsibly – while complying with European regulation and mitigating technical and social risks.
Module 4 translated “responsible AI” into concrete decision points companies face every day:
- Ethical risk areas that show up in real deployments – bias and fairness, misinformation and provenance, IP and accountability, security and abuse.
- Practical good practices across the AI lifecycle – from use-case definition and data to validation, deployment, monitoring and retraining (with a strong “look after your vendors” message for tooling and compliance-by-design).
- EU AI Act essentials for companies – the risk-based model (prohibited, high-risk, limited, minimal, plus general-purpose AI), and what this means for governance, transparency and controls in products and internal workflows.
- Operational governance approaches – aligning internal AI governance with recognised frameworks (including ISO/IEC 42001:2023 as an AI management system pathway) and building organisational AI literacy.
Why this matters for our region and ecosystem
For Cyber4AllSTAR EDIH, “AI readiness” is not only about tools and pilots – it is also about trust, governance, and regulatory alignment as European rules mature and become enforceable in practice. This is particularly relevant for SMEs adopting GenAI quickly, where new value often arrives together with new exposure (security, misinformation, IP, compliance risk).
Through our ecosystem work (including collaboration with AI Cluster Bulgaria and partners across South Central Bulgaria, centred in Plovdiv), we continue to support companies and public organisations with:
- AI literacy and skills development
- test-before-invest guidance
- governance and compliance-by-design practices for AI projects
Module 4 slides – Ethics, regulation and good practices in AI
We are sharing the full slide deck used in the training so organisations can reuse the concepts internally (awareness sessions, internal controls design, AI governance workshops, and compliance checklists).
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/edih-training-ai-for-companies-module-4/285729213
About “AI for Companies”
“AI for Companies” is an EDIH Network training programme designed to help European businesses integrate AI into daily work and operations – from fundamentals and tools to applied use-cases, ethics/regulation, and funding opportunities.
If you want DIH Trakia to run a shortened version of Module 4 for your organisation (leadership briefing or hands-on workshop for compliance, risk and product teams), we can adapt it to your sector, maturity level, and use-cases.
Note
On 1 February 2026, Dr. Hristian Daskalov discussed the same topic publicly in an interview for Bloomberg TV Bulgaria (UpDate) – focusing on how generative AI accelerates cyber attacks and why cybersecurity is increasingly a “battle of speeds”, requiring faster detection, response, and stronger organisational governance.
