The Centre for Information Society Technologies (CIST) is an interdisciplinary research and training institution of Sofia University, motivated by the challenge of supporting the development, introduction and wide use of Information Society Technologies (IST).

This challenge is addressed by performing high-quality research on IST-based systems, on their user-friendly environments, and on design techniques and enabling technologies.

The Centre of Excellence in IST is designed as a flexible junction between the university, the academic community, local community, industry and SMEs, NGOs and policy makers co-ordinating their efforts at spreading the overall use of and excellence in IST.

The four associated groups of partners – NGOs, science and education institutions, policy makers and SMEs are acting both as contributors of inputs and as final users, the outputs also serving a wider range of researchers, business and professional users as well as various final service users.

The core of CIST is the Department of Information Technologies (DIT) of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Sofia. The activities of the Department involve teaching, research and development.