GATE Institute

At the beginning of 2019 a new Big Data Research Institute was established at Sofia University. The institute is institutionalized as Centre of Excellence (CoE) by GATE (Big Data for Smart Society) project, funded from Horizon 2020 WIDESPREAD-01-2018-2019 Teaming Phase 2 under grant agreement no. 857155 and Operational Programme Science and Education for Smart Growth 2014-2020 in partnership with Chalmers University of Technology and Chalmers Industriteknik, Sweden. GATE Institute provides innovation excellence into four strategic application themes - Future Cities, Intelligent Government, Smart Industry and Digital Health. Value is created in these themes through developing research excellence mainly in topics relevant to the three technology areas Data Insight, Data Analytics and Data Management and on a cross cutting area Engineering and development. GATE aims to provide excellent research and go beyond state-of-the-art in particular focus research areas: Semantic Technolo...