“150 years of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences”
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Scientific Research
April 2019
Pupils from 4th primary school "Prof. John Atanasoff” in Sofia will visit, on April 18th, the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum (IEFSEM). They will learn about the main features of St. Lazar’s holiday - its place and meaning in the spring maiden ritual; about the various actions that make up the preparation and the actual feast; about the specific elements in the clothing of the lazarki; about the ritual jewelry and utensils used, etc. Children will learn all this from archival videos from different regions of the country which are stored at the National Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage at IEFSEM - BAS as well as from artifacts in the museum's representative exposition. Having been collected for decades by researchers at [...]
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A hundred and fifty trees will be planted by scientists and employees of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on the occasion of Earth Day 22 April. It is an initiative of the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography (NIGGG) and the Forest Institute (FI) and is dedicated to the 150th jubilee of BAS. The green areas will be planted in front of NIGGG building in the scientific complex of BAS at 4th km. Saplings of more than 25 deciduous and coniferous species, mostly of local origin, as well as beautiful flowering trees are selected. The tree species are selected according to the conditions of the terrain, and their contact with the existing vegetation is also respected. The adjacent green areas around NIGGG are pre-zoned, [...]
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The thirty-first edition of the European Competition for Young Scientists (EUCYS) will be held in Sofia from 13 to 18 September 2019. A hundred and fifty-five students from 40 countries from all over the world (including Canada, China, Russia, USA and South Korea) will arrive in Sofia to participate in the largest and most prestigious competition for young scientists under the auspices of the European Union. The organizers of this year's competition are the Ministry of Education and Science and the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Partner of the event is Sofia Municipality. The competition was created in 1989 on the initiative of the European Commission and annually distinguishes the best student scientific achievements. EUCYS aims to enhance collaboration [...]
Find out moreOctober 2019
From 3rd to 5th October 2019 an International scholarly conference “Late Antique Christianity in Southeastern Europe” will be held in Yambol. 56 scholars from 11 countries will attend the event. The conference is organized under the project "LABedia: Encyclopedia of the Late Antiquity of the Balkans, 4th Century", funded by the Scientific Research Fund and organized by the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology 'Prof. Alexander Fol' at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in partnership with the Regional History Museum - Yambol. The official opening of the conference will be on October 3, 2019 (Thursday) at 9:00 in the building of the Bezisten - Yambol. The plenary session will be held in the Bezisten. The scientific sessions will take place from 3 to [...]
Find out moreSofia Electrochemical Days (SED) is a national conference with international participation. The event is organized every two years with the support of the Bulgarian Electrochemical Society and the Bulgarian section of the International Electrochemical Society. First held in 1996, the conference is an established national forum for exchanging information on the latest scientific and technical developments in the field of electrochemistry. SED attracts and unites both young and experienced researchers from home and abroad - representatives of various prestigious academic institutions and organizations, industrial enterprises and educational establishments. Through various formats, such as oral presentations and discussions, poster and educational sessions, new ideas are presented and discussed at a high expert level at the conference. For more information, see the website.
Find out moreInstitute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with The Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in South Eastern Europe under the auspices of UNESCO, under the patronage of the President of BAS Acad. Julian Revalski, organizes an International Scholarly Conference dedicated to the 150th Anniversary of BAS "Current Problems in the Study of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Implementation of Convention 2003. Contribution of the Scientists from BAS", 17 - 18 October 2019. See the conference program.
Find out moreNovember 2019
The 6th IEEE International Conference “Big Data, Knowledge and Control Systems Engineering” (BdKCSE’2019) aims to provide an open forum for the dissemination of the current research progress, innovative approaches and original research results on all aspects of Big Data Management, Technologies, and Applications. Organizer of the BdKCSE’2019 Conference is the John Atanasoff Union of Automatics and Informatics, with co-organizers the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the IEEE IM/CS/SMC Joint Chapter of Bulgaria. The conference will focus on, but will be not limited to the following topics: Big data infrastructure Big data management Big data search and mining Big data applications Big data security and privacy System analysis, decision analysis and decision support Informatics and operations research Intelligent control [...]
Find out moreEconomic Research Institute at BAS has the pleasure to invite you to the Jubilee International Scientific Conference “Economic Development and Policies: Realities and Prospects”, held on 21-22 November 2019 in Sofia, in the Great Hall of the Institute. The programme of the Conference includes the following thematic areas: Macroeconomic dimensions of economic development Bulgaria and the Economic and financial integration in the EU. Opportunities and challenges of Bulgaria's participation in the global economy Labour market and social policies Regional and sectoral development. Resources, ecology and sustainable development The company of the 21st century Working languages are Bulgarian and English. For more information, see the website.
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The Black Sea, and its six littoral states (Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia), its important port cities, its littoral settlements, its multicultural richness and its history going back to Antiquity, offer in an exemplary way the possibility to be studied in this perspective. The Black Sea as literary and cultural space supposes an inductive-deductive research: an object is set within a frame(work) in order to be observed during a process which comes to modify the frame(work). The object ‘Black Sea’ is constructed as a literary and cultural space, and in turn helps to define the concept. This concept, actually, can be approached from three perspectives. The first one considers the concept as a milieu hosting in coexistence different literatures as well as different cultures; [...]
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