The Bulgarian-Romanian Observatory of Digital Media is set up under the “Digital Europe Programme” and aims at creating a multinational, multi-stakeholder, and multidisciplinary regional hub for detection, analysis and combating disinformation circulating in Bulgaria and Romania. Such an observatory is urgently needed and very relevant in the region, which due to the poor media freedom and low citizen media and information literacy is highly prone to coordinated internal and external disinformation campaigns aiming at the EU.
Consortium members:
- SOFIA UNIVERSITY ST KLIMENT OHRIDSKI by its INSTITUTE GATE (UNISOFIA),
- GLOBSEC (GLOBSEC),
- AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE (AFP),
- ATHENS TECHNOLOGY CENTER ANONYMI VIOMICHANIKI EMPORIKI KAI TECHNIKI ETAIREIA EFARMOGON YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS (ATC),
- BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION (BNT),
- VITOSHA RESEARCH EOOD (VR EOOD),
- SCOALA NATIONALA DE STUDII POLITICE SI ADMINISTRATIVE (SNSPA),
- SIRMA AI EAD (ONTOTEXT),
- FUNKY CITIZENS (FC),
- XWIKI SOFTWARE SRL (XWIKI SOFTWARE),
- NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER LTD (NTCenter),
- FUNDATIA CENTRUL PENTRU JURNALISM INDEPENDENT (CJI).
ATC is setting up Truly Media as the hub’s fact-checking platform and is also responsible for the localization of Truly Media in Romanian and Bulgarian.
The project started in December 2022 and will last for 30 months.
