News from the Project DEGREBE.

A Bulgarian version of an interesting guide (manual) for educators has been released, including for trainers, teachers, lecturers, mentors, facilitators and other experts in education who use games in the learning process.The title of this material is "A Gamification-Infused Trainers' Guide for Digital Education".

It presents, in an accessible language, the minimum knowledge and tools that can help the educators to more easily navigate the complex world of gamification in its digital context.

On March 19, 2024, the regular meeting of the SmartCityTech Partnership was held in Antwerp, Belgium with the participation of the Cluster Sofia Knowledge City.

Representatives of the partners from Aalborg Green Hub, Denmark, GAIA Spain, AMEC Spain, Bayern Innovative Germany, Tice Portugal, as well as representatives of the hosts from Antwerp were present.

The newest member of this partnership, the SCIC association from Finland also participated remotely.

The Innovation Vocational Excellence in Tech (INVESTech) project started with the first project meeting in Kosice, Slovakia. The meeting was hosted by the Technical University of Kosice. 35 participants from 6 countries (Slovakia, Greece, Lithuinia, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Italy) took part in this meeting to discuss about the project purpuse, tasks, schedule and the roles of the partners in the project performance next 4 years. From Bulgaria participated Milena Koleva and Dimitar Hristov (Cluster Sofia Knowledge City) and Teodora Sotirova and Daniela Levi (Joint Innovation Centre of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).

Cluster Sofia Knowledge City took part in the tenth edition of the interregional cooperation forum "Europe, let's cooperate" (#europecooperates), which took place on March 20-21, 2024 in Antwerp, Belgium. This Interreg event was joined by cluster representatives Dimitar Filipov - member of the Board, Vihra Andonova - Chairman of the Control Committee and Krum Dimitrov - marketing and digitization intern working for the cluster. The event was organized on the occasion of the launch of a new call for project proposals and the inclusion of new countries in the Interreg Europe program such as Serbia, Macedonia, Ukraine, etc.