NTCenter (BROD) won the 2025 European Award for Innovative Teaching

Published Wednesday 26 November 2025 at 16:50

The NTCenter, one of the Bulgarian partners in the Bulgarian-Romanian Digital Media Observatory, is this year's winner of the European Innovative Teaching Award (EITA).

NTCenter's Inspiring Teachers Against Conspiracy Theories (InTACT) project was created to support teachers and as an effective tool for recognizing and debunking conspiracy theories and misinformation. The Human Resources Development Center (HRDC) presented the EITA award at a formal ceremony.

"This is a great honor and a strong incentive for us to continue developing innovative approaches to education and learning, and we thank our partners with whom we share this award. We are sincerely grateful for the opportunity to work side by side with organizations that share our vision for meaningful and modern education," said NTCenter founder Andy Stoychev.

We congratulate our colleagues at NTCenter on this recognition and, on behalf of the BROD consortium, we express our own gratitude for the Center's commitment to upholding our shared democratic values and principles through innovation in education and active citizenship and their exceptional contributions to the implementation of our joint projects.

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NTCenter (BROD) won the 2025 European Award for Innovative Teaching

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