“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, [...]
Find out moreSeptember 2019
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 [...]
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