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Mozaika signed an agreement with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (link https://www.unive.it/pag/13526) and Mozaika for the organisation of Internships and placements for students and recent graduates. That the main objectives of the internship / training are to allow the students to  apply what they have learned in their university education, to see first hand professionally innovative…

The final review meeting for ISME-HYDRO-BG project of Mozaika, carried out within the ESA PECS Programme for the last two years was carried out on September 15 2019 at ESRIN. The project results have been evaluated highly as prominent and well delivered. We look forward for further and continued successful collaboration with ESA and our…

Mozaika presents at Phi-Week 2019 (link: https://phiweek.esa.int/NikalWebsitePortal/esa-eo-phi-week-2019/phiweek) For the second time Mozaika attends the organized by ESA Phi-Week held at ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. The company presented e-poster entitled: “Ontology-Based Semantic Search over Linked Satellite, Geospatial, Numeric and Symbolic Data in the Water Management Domain”. The posted video in the ESA Open Science YouTube channel has…

Mozaika joins the German Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce to foster partnerships with German research organizations and companies to develop novel approaches and solutions based on knowledge management and AI and to expand its market of business information delivery within the German businesses operating in Bulgaria.

Mozaika joins the Italian Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce to participate in educational, cultural heritage projects, to offer internships to Italian university students, to promote the service IndustryInform and to seek access to the Italian market of knowledge intense solutions.

The first version of the Map of the lexical manifestations of Bulgarian dialects is a reality. The team of Mozaika joined efforts with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences to map the wording of patatoe, barley, branches and display them with the help of a geographic information system. Have a look: http://www.lexicalgeolinguistic.org/Dialects

Mozaika signs a contract with Infoeurope S.A. to help bulding linked oped data solution for the Historical Archive of the European Commission. Stay tuned!

Living Planet Symposium 2019 – an event held every three years gathered in Milano about 5K participants – exhibitors, speakers, poster presenters, policy makers from ESA, NASA and EC to exchange information about scientific advances, views, future opportunities and plans related to the space sector and earth observation. An excellent networking opportunity that Mozaika savoured…

The 6th annual meeting of the National Board of Tourism was held on April 23rd 2019 in Hilton Hotel, Sofia, where stakeholders from national and local government, business and the non-profit sector discussed achievements, policies, opportunities and plans for the future of the tourist industry in Bulgaria and Sofia. Mozaika gathered a lot of interesthing…

Mozaika took part in the Seventh Coface Bulgaria Risk conference held on April 18th 2019 at Hilton hotel Sofia. the conference featured and discussed trends and risks about the world, the regional and the Bulgarian economy. http://www.coface.bg/Novini-i-s-bitiya/Sedma-Kofas-konferenciya-po-upravlenie-na-riska2?fbclid=IwAR21HD3D4SO8Vz4_6Dygz8cyWL7Bi13Dvl0zGiFELiGACr7flCnp9-rUI_E  

Mozaika was featured at the Smart Cities conference held April 16th-18th 2019 at Inter Expo Center – Интер Експо Център as part of Cluster “Sofia City of Knowledge” https://eu-smartcities.eu/events/south-east-european-see-exhibition-conference-smart-cities?fbclid=IwAR2dfXDl0ct0YmNjQVT0h4V52qOxJ2c1PhcUFNiU0QE-Yv5XkAtOsqBnyng

Mozaika was featured at the Smart Cities conference held April 16th-18th 2019 at Inter Expo Center – Интер Експо Център as part of Cluster “Sofia City of Knowledge” https://eu-smartcities.eu/events/south-east-european-see-exhibition-conference-smart-cities?fbclid=IwAR2dfXDl0ct0YmNjQVT0h4V52qOxJ2c1PhcUFNiU0QE-Yv5XkAtOsqBnyng  

Mariana Damova from Mozaika took part in an inspirational meeting with students interested in computational linguistics, organised by SlavConf at SofiaLab. She shared her views and experience in the field evolving from language processing to data science and AI and presented the opportunities that Mozaika can offer to young linguists.  

Mariana Damova from Mozaika took part in an inspirational meeting with students interested in computational linguistics, organised by SlavConf at SofiaLab. She shared her views and experience in the field evolving from language processing to data science and AI and presented the opportunities that Mozaika can offer to young linguists.

The fourth eiditon of Big Data from Space conference took place in Muenchen, organized by the German Space Agency and endorsed by the European Space Agency and the European Commission. The conference has the objective to gather the community of practitioners and users of  the massive spatio-temporal Earth and Space observation data collected by a…

The annual Queriada was held in November 2018 at Varna Free University. About 50 participants competed in three categories of challenges – modelling, SQL and semantic querying. Mozaika supported the semantic querying challenge, by providing the prices of the 16 participants in the winning teams – a variety of data science courses from UDEMY, individually…

Mozaika kicks-off participation in the project “Linguogeographic Study of the Relations between the Bulgarian and the European Dialect Lexicon” in collaboration with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, funded by the fund “Scientific studies”, Bulgarian Ministry of Education. In this project Mozaika will produce interactive maps of the manifestation of lexical phenomena throughout Europe.

Mariana Damova of Mozaika took part at ICT2018 as a panelist in the Session “Realising the potential of data for the economy and open science” organized by DG Connect of the European Commission, December 5th 2018 in Vienna. Have a look at the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsF3fKTOfVo&list=PLyMUk47rPuqp48GrprNJQ2OxKmkgZk2xS

IMAGINE DIGITAL – ICT2018 event in Vienna, as part of the Austrian Presidency of EC, 4-6 December 2018 – the premier event about opportunities and future of the digital economy of Europe and Horizon Europe Programme – 2021-2017 personnally endorsed by Commissionnaire Mariya Gabriel. Mozaika was in attendance.

In 2018 Mozaika has become member of the cluster “Sofia – City of knowledge” that organized the international conference Knowledge and Smart Cities, focused on the systematic approach of transforming cities into knowledge & smart cities and the role of digitalization and local governmental policies for accelerating this process. Representatives of all stakeholders shared experience, ideas…

ISME-HYDRO-BG project of Mozaika was presented at the Cope4BG conference, held on November 22 and 23rd at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, aiming at presenting opportunities and good examples to work with Copernicus data.

On October 22nd, 2018 The library of the South Western University in Blagoevgrad hosted the presentation of the book, “The Dialect System of village Shishtevec, Kukyska Gora”, author Luchia Antonova-Vassileva, published by Mozaika.

ESA Phi Week was held November 12-16, 2018 at ESRIN in Frascati, Italy. The event was dedicated to Earth Observation Open Science and FutureEO. A tremendously rich programme discussed the latest developments in Open Science, showed the trends and kick-start innovative activities looking at FutureEO within ESA Φ-lab aiming to identify, support and scale bold EO…

The book “The dialiect system of the village Shishtevec, Kukyska Gora” published by Mozaika, has been presented on November 1st and 2nd at the University of Tirana and in Kukys by its author Prof. Luchia Antonova.

The EU Water Conference has been held on September 20 and 21st in Vienna within the Austrian Presidency to the EC. During the two days stakeholders from EU, EU member states, local governments, NGOs, such as WWF, and practitioners with hands-on experience and examples of water use discussed topics ranging form policies for water management, river bassins,…

Mozaika designed and developed a content management system to help unemployed youth find jobs and career orientation – Youth at Work and redesigned its partner site NoAimNoGain that offers career orientation courses. Information sessions about the sites and the underlying service will be launched mid October 2018 by the Educational Cooperation Foundation that has initiated both projects Agents of Change…

More then 30 business meetings in two days. This is the outcome of Mozaika attending Industry Space Days 2018 at ESTEC in September 2018. Great opportunities! Exquisite event! 

Mozaika sponsors ESSLLI 2018 – the 30ieth edition of the European Summer School in Language Logic and Information in the gold sponsors category. A professional and personal path that brought about Mozaika’s core essense has started at ESSLLI 1990 held in Leuven Belgium. http://esslli2018.folli.info/

Webit Europe the annual premier conference about the digital reality and future, featuring Bulgaria as the digital capital of Europe, was this year the biggest event, organized so far, reporting about more than 7200 participants. the event was branded as Webit Festival Europe. Mariana Damova from Mozaika was one of the PRO visitors, and signed up…

Digital Assembly, an annual event that has been included this year into the programme of the Buglarian Presidency of EC, gathered all stakeholders of the digital economy of Europe and discussed topics ranging from e-Health and virtual reality, through fake news and artificial intelligence to GDPR, EU policies and partnerships. Mozaika attended the second day…

Science and Business for Smart Future, a conference organized at Varna Free University, featured Mozaika in the panel data Science for Business. Mariana Damova presented the case of Linked data technologies and the service IndustryInform.

Water Management Workshop at the European Commission in Brussels, May 29, 2018, Mozaika attending. The meeting provided a great overview of the sector and the past, current and future priorities of the sector at European level. Presenters reported about the usage of Copernicus data for national water management initiatives with practical impact.

The 8th edition of DigitalK Conference gathered leading stakeholders in the digital sector world wide. The two day event (31.05.2018-01.06.2018) hosted presenters from global companies, successful entrepreneurs, accelerators, who discussed topics around digital marketing, story telling, blockchain, finntech, funding, acceleration, etc. A competition with more than 200 startups awarded a price of 10K Euro to…

The First FinnTech Summit, May 30 2018, discussed trends and opportunities in Bulgaria in the near future, the upcoming disruption of the banking sector world wide, good practices, the ecosystem, and the potential role of Sofia Lab as leader in these endeavours in Bulgaria.

#INSPIRE2TRANSFORM brings insights on technology, transformation and innovation toSofia for a day of learning, co-creation and connection. Like-minded innovation leaders came together fromacross Europe who told their stories and forged their future. The WATIFY event, held on May 2nd at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, has been an awareness-raising campaign funded by the…

Big Data Value Meetup Sofia was held 14-16 of May 2018 at Inter Expo Center, Sofia. It was organized by BDVe project, BDVA and Mozaika. During three days the European elite in Big data, representatives and leaders of 25 Horizon 2020 projects in Big data from all over Europe gathered to discuss the advances in…

Mozaika took part in the “Salon du livre” in Veliko Tyrnovo on April 20 and 21, 2018. It presented the book “The Dialect System of Shishtevec, Kukyska gora” by Lucia Antonova, that the company published in February 2017. 

Balkans form Space, 18-19 of April 2018 The Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU have set as priorities, inter alia, to promote the digital economy, jobs for young people and security and stability in the Western Balkans. Coordinated efforts to develop a regional research and development strategy for innovation was launched as early…

SHEleader@Digital conference within the Bulgarian Presidency of the EC, held on April 12th 2018, focused on leadership with only outstanding women participants from around the world discussing topics about entrepreneurship, policies, good practices, strength, resilience, work life balance and the role and place of women in these facets.

The Stanford Women in Data Science conference (WiDS) is a one day global conference that brings data scientists together to share cutting edge research. The conference aims to inspire and encourage data scientists worldwide and exclusively support women in the field. Alan Turing Institute in London hosted a chapter of the conference on April 6th…

Paris Space Week was held on March 28th and 29th 2018 at Orly Airport. Mozaika forged a number of productive business meetings with representatives of the French and international space industry.

Mozaika is presenting tomorrow, March 27th 2018, at the Smart Cities Summitat Inter Expo Center – Sofia in Sofia exhibiting as part of the Cluster “Sofia – a city of knowledge”.  See the presentation here: link to the presentation

Mozaika sponsors for the third time Startup Europe Week Sofia. This annual event within the initiative Startup Europe Week #SEW will be held between March 6th and March 8th 2018 in Microsoft Innovation Center Bulgaria (March 6th and 7th) and MOVE.BG (March 8th). The program this year is dedicated to the Entrepreneurial Spirit in Action.…

On 30ieth of January 2018 Mariana Damova from Mozaika, kicked-off the initiative of the CEO of LEM, Anelia Pergoot, Tech Talks, with a presentation about Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies, in which she presented the powerful potential of semantic data integration and linked data as a key technology for achieving the next industrial revolution of digital factoris,…

On January 18th 2018 Mozaika signs a 24 month contract with the European Space Agency within its PECS Programme. Mozaika will conduct and deliver R&D in the area of Earth observation.

Mozaika’s IndustryInform feautres have been put forward in an interview by Gergana Mihaylova from Capital Business. The interview tackles issues of business information delivery, business intelligence and knowledge work automation. It can be read in Bulgarian here.

Mozaika attends Horizon 2020 Space Info Days 2017 in Warsaw, Poland. This event gathered officials from the European Commission, and Polish and European scientists, scientific and corporate organizations to exchange ideas and find opportunities to participate in Horizon 2020 Space Programme in the next two years. The event offered a glimpse at the upcoming FP9…

The final conference of Mozaika’s project “The Spirituality of Sofia in the Historic Memory”, co-financed by Sofia Municipality with partners Sofia University “St. Climent Ohridski”, the National Lycee of Ancient Languages and Cultures “St. Constantin Kiril The Philosopher”, and 48 School, was held on November 28th 2017 in the Aula of Sofia University. The European…

Mozaika sponsors European Big Data Value Forum 2017, held in Versailles, 21-23 of November this year. This is the premier annual conference gathering research, industry and policy makers to discuss the present and future of data economy and the value of turning data into insight and intelligence to enable decision making, complex tasks automation, smoother ran…

Mozaika was intvited to attend the World GIS day 2017, held in Sofia on November 15th, 2017. At this day policy makers recognized the increasing importance of GIS in everyday operations of many areas of our lives and governance. The most recent novelties in AcrGIS were also presented at this brilliantly organized event.

Mozaika networks at ICT Proposer’s Day for the Horizon 2020 programme of 2018-2020 help in Budapest. Mariana Damova is at the vent with two roles: representing Mozaika, discovering partnerships and project opportunities and National Contact Point ICT, figuring out how to help Bulgarian companies and organizations increase their participation in the programme. This time no…

Mozaika’s site Geography of Letters, co-financed by Programme “Culture” of Sofia Municipality, was launched at an international conference entitled “The Pathways of Slavo-Bulgarian History by Paisij Hilendarski”, held on October 26th 2017 in hall 2 of Sofia University “St. Climent Ohridski”. The conference was inaugurated with a formal greeting from d-r Todor Chobanov, Deputy Mair of…

On October 26th 2017 Sofia Tech Park hosted a high profile Digital Unconference Sofia 1.0. The initiative has been dedicated to gather leading policymakers, disruptive technology companies and stakeholders in the digital ecosystem to brainstorm how Europe can build a digital society fit for the future days before the start of 2018 Bulgarian Presidency of the…

Space Tech Expo Europe, held in Bremen, is Europe’s premier B2B Space engineering event for spacecraft, satellite, launch vehicle and space related technologies and draws attendance from thousands of industry leaders, decision makers, engineers, specifiers and buyers to meet manufacturers and the supply chain for civil, military and commercial space. Space Tech Expo Europe is…

The conference Innowave 2017 in Varna featuring outstanding lecturers and panelists from Amazon, DHL, Alibaba, Google, and world reknown Business and Marketing gurus gathered an international business community, startup community and proactive young entrepreneurs in the Black Sea Capital of Bulgaria. The exhibitors were predominantly young companies.

The 4th Summer School in Advanced Tools for Digital Humanities and IT was held between 7th and12th of September 2017 in Borovets near Sofia. Within this event there was a Roundtable on thefutureperspectives for Digital Humanities in South-Eastern Europe where Mariana Damova from Mozaika was invited to present its project The Spirituality of Sofia in…

In July ESA held R&D Proposal Writing Training with the participation of representatives of SMEs from more than 10 countries EU member states. It included on site preparation of a proposal responding to an exemplary call for tender by setup teams. Mozaika was part of one of the teams, and contributed to the crafting of…

In the framework of the Digital Single Market Strategy, the European Commission launched its “Next Generation Internet Initiative” to drive the development of the internet for the benefit of companies and citizens via regulation, policy initiatives and funding programmes. The Next Generation Internet Summit  aimed to be the largest public consultation on the future of the…

Education beyond borders organizes regular international events in Sofia to promote education and career opportunities around the world. This year in March Mozaika took part as employer offering career opportunities for young professionals in areas ranging from graphic design, computer science, software engineering, linguistics, business consulting, cognitive scientists, data analysts all applied to humanizing technologies.

Webit.Festival Europe is the leading event for digital economy and technology in Europe with special focus on the Central and Eastern Europe and the untapped potential of the region. The event gathers 5100+ people from over 90 countries. Mozaika attends for the third time the event that takes place in Sofia every year. Leading experts…

This april 1st Mozaika kicked-off a project with Sofia Municipality and with Sofia University and prominent Bulgarian schools, such as the National Lycee for Ancient Languages and Cultures. The project is entitled the Spirituality of Sofia in the Historical Memory, that will be featured during the Bulgarian Presidency of the European Council in 2018. The…

For the second year Sofia Tech Park hosts the event Innovation is Great, organized and patroned by the British Embassy in Bulgaria. During the meeting British and Bulgarian government officials and representatives discussed paths, strategies and best practices to increase, nurture and monetize innovation by encouraging and enabling collaboration between academic research, business opportunities and…

The presentation of the book “The Dialect System of the village Shishtevec, Kukyska Gora – a Parlance at the Boundary of the Bulgarian Grammar” by Luchia Antonova-Vassileva, published by Mozaika was held on March 9th, 2017 at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences before an audience of members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, scientists, linguists,…

Mozaika publishes the book by Luchia Antonova Vassileva, The Dialect System of village Shishtevec, Kukyska Gora – a parlance at the boundary of the Bulgarian Grammar, a study conducted at the Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, describing the properties of the parlance of the village in Albania, and proving its…

For the second year Mozaika sponsors Startup Europe Week Sofia,part of the European initiative Startup Europe Week aiming at contributing to the creation of a pan-european entrepreneurship ecosystem by engaging inter and intra regional communication. The event was held on  09.02.2017, 12:00-17:30 in the House of Europe in Sofia. Mariana Damova was host of the…

A video presenting opinions of EU officials, industry leaders, practitioners and sponsors on Big Data value and data economy made during BDVA summit 2016, held in Valencia, Spain in November 2016, has just been released. Enjoy it. Mozaika’s testimonial is at minute 9:38. Link to the video  

Forbes lists Mariana Damova, CEO of Mozaika, among the 9 Women Leading The Pack In Data Analytics in a featured article from August 2016. The article is at this link  

The annual Big Data Value Association Summit for 2016 was held in Valencia Spain between 30 of November and 3 of December 2016. About 500 participants from Academia, Industries and the Public sector had the opportunity to share insight, present work, ideas, policies and strategic plans at the very well organized three day event. Mozaika…

The biggest annual event for space industry specifically oriented to industries, business and companies welcomes Mozaika. We could identify a lot of partnership and collaboration opportunities in a variety of domains related to applicability of space technology of earth, and relevant for space exploration, earth observation and use cases for data science. A very full…

This year the European Data Forum was held in Evoluon, a building constructed for the 75th anniversary of Philips, the company which was founded in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in the end of 19th century and has an exemplary track record of innovation throughout its existence until nowadays. The Forum was dedicated to Scaling Up the European Data…

Mozaika presented the profiles of the open IT positions at the first edition of IT rencontres francophones on June 17 2016 in Sofia. The facebook page of the event is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1739598266254896/?ref=ts&fref=tsSUMMARY. We met with many international talents from all over the world living, studying and working in Sofia.  

The European Space Agency (ESA) is organizing a series of technical and/or scientific trainings that are aimed at the promotion and dissemination of Earth Observation (EO) technology in a variety of science and industrial fields. In 2016 ESA in cooperation with the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Faculty of Geodesy and Ministry of…

On April 26th 2016 Mariana Damova gave a talk on Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies at the Sofitware University in Sofia at the Inspiration Lab. In her presentation she stressed the novel aspects of data management in the 21st century and the solution that the Semantic Web Technologies provide for them. The talk was abundant…

Mozajka sponsored Startup Europe Week Sofia, a chapter of the concerted Europe wide event Startup Europe Week. Startup Europe Week has been created to include all the European regions in a startup focused program.   Many global initiatives have been created to celebrate entrepreneurship. Typically, such events follow the Silicon Valley format (keynote motivational speeches,…

The European Data Science Academy (EDSA) project aims at establishing a learning production cycle for data science. Its objectives are to analyse the required sector specific skillsets for data analysts across the main industrial sectors in Europe; to develop modular and adaptable data science curricula to meet these needs; and to deliver training supported by…

On December 3rd, Mozaika attended two events – Great Innovation Exchange and Time for Data – organized by the British Embassy in Sofia and Sofia Techpark, as part of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Drive for EU competitiveness. During the two events British and Bulgarian government officials and businessmen presented a range of examples of…

Mozaika helped the French Embassy launch a content management system for the French University Programmes offered at Bulgarian Univerisities. The company leveraged the requirements of the French Institute in Buglaria and the Agency of the Francophone Universities to design and develop fuf.bg The site was officially announced in September 2015.  

Mozaika presented its project IndustryInform at the LT-Innovate Summit 2015 on June 25 2015 in Brussels. A lot of valuable feedback was gathered. The presentation can be seen on SlideShare here.   

Participation in EuroDIG 2015 – European Dialogue on Internet Governance. Flash presentation entitled Communication Channels for the European Digital Single Market (DSM) explaining the importance of language as a factor of enabling the realization of the vision of the DSM was delivered by Mariana Damova. The presentation can be seen on SlideShare here.  

Mozaika attends the Riga Summit 2015 on Multilingual Single Digital Market.   Mozaika took part in the Riga Summit 2015, an official European forum, where the importance of removing the language blocking for the European Single Digital Market has been discussed.

Digital Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E) European FP7 project created a technical infrastructure and tools for working with digitized manuscripts, based on Semantic technologies. Manuscripts from different periods of European history were contributed by different European Cultural Institutions to be represented in the designed withinthe project DM2E model and published to Europeana. Mozaika helped the project and the Bulgarian…

Mozaika is presenting at ISWC’2014 two papers about miltilingual retrieval interface for structured data on the Web in colaboration with the University of Gothenburg. NLIWoD ; ISWC’2014

Mozaika attends I-KNOW conference on Knowledge technologies and data-driven business Mozaika was invited and took part at a workshop on Big Data

Mozaika was invited and took part in the Language Technologies Exhibition of CLIB2014 along with SAP, DATECS, Sofia University and others.

On Friday, August 8th 2014, Mozaika signed a framework contract for cooperation with CASTRA. (Cluster AERO-SPACE TECHNOLOGIES, RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS). Mozaika’s contribution to the research activities in the cluster is expected to be in the realm of data and content integration and analytics.

Mozaika – the Humanizing Technologies Lab was selected for the “Best of LT” run-up at the LT-Innovate Summit. Mariana Damova, PhD presented the company. .

A public presentation on Humanizing technologies by Mariana Damova, PhD was held at Smart FabLab, Sofia, organized by Digital Spaces Living Labs and Transformatori. Links to the Invitation, and to the Presentation