{"id":35197,"date":"2024-02-28T12:31:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T10:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/a-student-from-a-high-school-in-sofia-and-prof-silvia-ilieva-director-of-the-gate-institute-at-sofia-university-are-among-the-bait-awardees-for-2023\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T12:31:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T10:31:14","slug":"a-student-from-a-high-school-in-sofia-and-prof-silvia-ilieva-director-of-the-gate-institute-at-sofia-university-are-among-the-bait-awardees-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/a-student-from-a-high-school-in-sofia-and-prof-silvia-ilieva-director-of-the-gate-institute-at-sofia-university-are-among-the-bait-awardees-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"A student from a high school in Sofia  and Prof. Silvia Ilieva, director of the GATE Institute at Sofia University are among the BAIT awardees for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At an official ceremony, the Bulgarian Association of Information Technology (BAIT) honored the winners of the 13th edition of the &#8220;BAIT Awards&#8221; 2023<\/strong>. There were seven categories, and the organizers also presented their traditional award for &#8220;Special Contribution&#8221;, which was given to Prof. Silvia Ilieva, director of the GATE Institute at Sofia University &#8220;St. Kliment Ohridski&#8221;. Radostina Belcheva and Matei Minev from Invest Sofia also attended the ceremony at &#8220;Interpred &#8211; Sofia&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>In the first category &#8211; &#8220;Youth Award\u201d there were 17 contenders. Angel Cholakov a student from Sofia Vocational High School of Electronics &#8220;John Atanasov&#8221; was awarded for his software development &#8220;Digital Accessibility&#8221;. Angel has created a product that helps blind people to use the basic functionalities of a computer in the easiest possible way for them. <\/p>\n<p>The BAIT educational award was presented to the &#8220;IT Stara Zagora&#8221; Association for a project that affirms the active cooperation between IT companies and educational institutions. <\/p>\n<p>Maria Ivanova from Tech.OFFNews.bg became the winner in the &#8220;Journalistic contribution&#8221; category. <\/p>\n<p>A  project from the Chavdar Municipality for the tourist portal of the village was awarded in the &#8220;Public Administration&#8221; category. <\/p>\n<p>The company &#8220;Releva&#8221; became the winner in the &#8220;Start Up Company&#8221; category. The project has high-tech personalization solution, which provides tools for sustainable growth of the online commerce. <\/p>\n<p>The award for best developers was presented to &#8220;AMPECO&#8221; EOOD for a software solution for managing charging stations for electric vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>In the category &#8220;Successful ICT project for the benefit of the Bulgarian economy&#8221;, was awarded the joint-stock company &#8220;BGK&#8221; with &#8220;Implementation of a complete IT solution in a start-up for modern trade Minimart&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the awardees and congratulations to the organizers from the Bulgarian Association Information Technology, who are handing out the prizes for the thirteenth year in a row.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35194\" src=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dgdhs_image_2024-02-28_11-08-53-978.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dgdhs_image_2024-02-28_11-08-53-978.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dgdhs_image_2024-02-28_11-08-53-978-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dgdhs_image_2024-02-28_11-08-53-978-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dgdhs_image_2024-02-28_11-08-53-978-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dgdhs_image_2024-02-28_11-08-53-978-110x146.jpg 110w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dgdhs_image_2024-02-28_11-08-53-978-38x50.jpg 38w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dgdhs_image_2024-02-28_11-08-53-978-56x75.jpg 56w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an official ceremony, the Bulgarian Association of Information Technology (BAIT) honored the winners of the 13th edition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":35195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}