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The upcoming 2025 re-zoning of Bulgaria provides opportunities for new synergies between the districts of the South Central Region and other areas across the country, including transition regions and those with lower economic development. For example, two of the three scenarios outlined by the National Statistical Institute suggest the creation of a future unified planning […]

The innovation ecosystem of EDIH Trakia includes hundreds of the most successful and creative companies and organizations from the civil and public sectors that are leading the digital future of Bulgaria. Today we present you an informative piece on a topical issue on the digital agenda of Bulgaria and Europe, prepared by our friends at

In 2024, a record number of training sessions were held for business and public sector representatives under the Cyber4AllSTAR project coordinated by the UPEE. However, the Trakia EDIH team did not limit itself to training provided to the Hub’s clients as free services upon request. We present a brief overview of the good practices built

The European Digital Innovation Hub Trakia (EDIH Trakia) will participate in the workshop “Defensive Frontlines: Strengthening Cyber Resilience in Evolving Threat Landscapes,” organized on January 16 in Bucharest. The event is hosted by the Euro-Atlantic Center for Resilience (E-ARC) under the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of the project “ECYBRIDGE: Strengthening Interaction in

The signing of a cooperation agreement between the Plovdiv-based European Digital Innovation Hub “Trakia” (Cyber4AllSTAR) coordinated by the Union for Private Economic Enterprise and the European Digital Innovation Hub for Accelerated Digitalization of SMEs from the North Central Region (ADi4SMEs) coordinated by the Gabrovo Regional Innovation Centre took place in early January 2025 at the 

On 26.11.24, the European Digital Innovation Hub “Trakia” (EDIH “Trakia”) together with the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) successfully implemented the first-ever training on cybersecurity, including work with Cyberpolygon and competition “Capture The Flag” (CTF). Twenty representatives of IT teams from various administrative structures participated and improved their skills in protecting critical information systems. As a

Europe’s most promising cybersecurity start-ups will present their cybersecurity innovations and exchange information and ideas with leading investors and business leaders from across Europe and representatives of the European cyber community during the European Digital Innovation Days in Security Forum of the “Research, Innovation, and Digitalisation for Smart Transformation” Programme on 28-29 November 2024 in

On October 29, 2024, Dr. Hristian Daskalov, Chairman of the European Digital Innovation Hub “Trakia” (EDIH Trakia), participated in an exclusive roundtable discussion during the Bucharest Cybersecurity Conference (BCC2024). Trakia Hub had the honour of representing Bulgaria and the network of over 150 digital innovation hubs from all over Europe on stage at the forum.

Students and young entrepreneurs from Plovdiv and the region participated in the “Cyber Research Exercise – CYREX 2024” hybrid training on “Future Media and Artificial Intelligence”. The event was organized for another year by the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). For the first time, it was

The “School for Parents” program on Eurocom TV interviewed cybersecurity expert Dr. Hristiyan Daskalov from EDIH Trakia about common online scams and protecting children and adults.  Key topics included the cybersecurity profession, the use of AI to create fake explicit videos for shaming, and professions that may disappear in the future. This online lesson was