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The 5th edition of the India-EU Digital Network Event will take place on 8 and 9 December 2021 and aims to support European companies to enable their business services to continue to grow digitally. Joint support of European companies helps to interact with experts from leading Indian IT companies and organize B2B meetings. The registration deadline is November 23rd. You will find a link to the registration form in the article.

Smart City Expo World Congress (Barcelona, November 16-18) is the leading international event for the smart city sector, where Cities Coalition for Digital Rights (CC4DR) will present the The Global Observatory of Urban Artificial Intelligence (GOUAI) Program. The Deputy Mayor for digitalisation and innovation of Sofia Municipality Gencho Kerezov will be attending the round table as well as part of the general overview of the CC4DR’s activities and progress.

The online conference Call For Good Practices: Social Innovation, organized within the Social Innovators project, will be held on November 30, 2021. The event invites all those who represent or act in the interests of citizens to share their good practices, innovations and actions that address societal challenges and feasible solutions and implement a wide variety of social innovations.

Future Perfect Foundation has developed a Viber chat bot for the prevention of domestic violence in Bulgaria, called “Strong”, which aims to help more people protect themselves from domestic violence and protect their lives, health and rights. The project is funded by the program “Social Innovations” of Sofia Municipality and is available to all over 3.5 million Viber users in the country.

IURC Asia and Australia is organizing an interactive discussion series on the aftermath of COVID-19 and inclusive recovery, which will cover a variety of urban topics. The team of Innovative Sofia is pleased to join as part of the active collaboration with IURC. You will find a link to free registration in the article.

“Sofia chooses” is a program of Sofia Municipality, which was launched last year in order to encourage the direct participation of citizens, non-governmental and professional organizations in the proposal of projects and the distribution of the municipal budget. Each proposal must be sent by December 31, 2021 to the email address: sofia.izbira@sofia.bg.

The team of Innovative Sofia is already actively cooperating with the partners from IURC Korea and IURC China under the Program for International and Regional Cooperation. On November 4th and 5th, two online training series will be held, organized by IURC Korea. The topics of the sessions are “Regional Development” and “Urbanization”.

On October 29th and 30th, SlavConf. will celebrate its 5th anniversary edition. The event focuses on career and creative development in the field of culture, and the team of Innovative Sofia is an institutional partner. You can register for free from the link in the article.

On October 26, 2021 the conference for the real estate market BalREc, which is one of the most influential in Bulgaria and the region, will be held. The focus of the event is on the state and investment environment in key market segments. You will find a link to register for the event in the article.