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Scientists present BAS projects under the Recovery and Resilience Plan

Scientists from BAS presented projects in the field of green and digital technologies during the visit of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Innovation and Growth Tomislav Donchev to four institutes of the Academy today. The funding is worth about three million leva and is under the Recovery and Resilience Facility. At the Institute of Robotics, the Deputy Prime Minister got acquainted with the construction of the national infrastructure for quantum communication, a route of which was being implemented within the framework of the National Plan. This infrastructure, which is part of the European quantum communication network, ensures the security of information exchange between institutions at both national and European level. The Recovery and Resilience Plan has so far financed the purchase of three [...]

Връзки с обществеността2025-08-01T10:12:39+03:00Thursday, 31 July 2025|Categories: Selected|

“Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age” scientific conference held at BAS

The Institute of Balkan Studies & Center of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBSCT-BAS) held a scientific conference with international participation on the "Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age" theme. It was organized on 30 July at the "Acad. Ivan Geshov" Hall of BAS. The sessions of the conference were devoted to cultural heritage as an online resource and to the past, present and future of encyclopaedias. The programme of the National Roadmap for Research Infrastructure (Inframat) demonstrates brilliant mutual cooperation between scientists working in the field of cultural, social and natural sciences, Prof. Neli Koseva said. Acad. Ilza Pajeva, head of the Bulgarian Encyclopaedia project; Prof. Vessela Tsakova, Chief Coordinator of the Consortium for Modern Research Infrastructure in Support of Science, Culture [...]

Връзки с обществеността2025-08-01T10:11:17+03:00Wednesday, 30 July 2025|Categories: Cultural-historical Heritage and National Identity|

Six medals for Bulgaria from the 66th International Mathematical Olympiad in Australia

The Bulgarian team after the award ceremony The 66th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO 2025) was held from 10 to 20 July 2025, hosted by Sunshine Coast, Australia. A record 630 students from 110 countries participated in the most prestigious and oldest mathematics competition. The competition days were 15 and 16 July, with 3 problems to be solved, scored out of 7 points each, in 4 and a half hours. The problem coordination took place on 17 and 18 July and the closing ceremony on 19 July. The Bulgarian team consisted of 6 competitors. According to the official ranking, the results of the Bulgarian team in IMO in terms of participants and medals are as follows: Angel Hristov, Burgas, “Acad. Nikola Obreshkov” School [...]

Връзки с обществеността2025-07-30T09:17:00+03:00Wednesday, 30 July 2025|Categories: General news, Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, Selected|

A scholar studies the history of Bulgarians in French archives

Corresponding member Ivan Rusev is studying data from French archives related to the history of Bulgarians in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The research is being conducted in Paris with the financial support of the French government, after winning a competition under the programme "Séjour scientifique de haut niveau - Chercheurs confirmés" ("Scientific stay at high level – experienced researchers"). The work of Corr. Memb. Rusev is mainly related to documents in the French Diplomatic Archives in Courneuve, widely known as the archives of "Quai d'Orsay" and the archives of the Ministry of Defence in Vincennes. He is among the few Bulgarian scholars who have gained access to these two archives. The documents researched by Corr. Memb. Rusev are related to French interests in [...]

Връзки с обществеността2025-07-29T16:30:55+03:00Tuesday, 29 July 2025|Categories: General news|

Four medals for Bulgaria at the International Biology Olympiad

The Bulgarian students have won four medals - two silver and two bronze from the International Biology Olympiad (IBO). The Olympiad was held from 20 to 27 July in the Philippines. The silver medals were won by Dimitar Oronov (XI grade, National High School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics - NHSNSM) and Stoyan Dobrev (XII grade, NHSNSM). The bronze awards went to Martin Zamfirov (XII grade, NHSNSM) and Boyan Tsenov (XI grade, NHSNSM). Their supervisors have been Prof. Dr. Albena Jordanova (Medical Faculty, SU "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Sen. Asst. Prof. Dr. Radoslav Aleksandrov (Institute of Molecular Biology of BAS) and PhD student Teodor Trifonov (Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research of BAS). The International Biology Olympiad is the world's most prestigious competition for biology [...]

Връзки с обществеността2025-07-29T16:29:37+03:00Tuesday, 29 July 2025|Categories: Biodiversity, Bioresources and Ecology, Biomedicine and Quality of Life, Selected|

The newly discovered comet 3I/ATLAS is observed by telescopes at NAO Rozhen

Text Figure 1:Composite image of 275 shots in filter R, each 22 s. The white stripes represent background stars, which merge into so-called star treks when the images are combined, and the comet is the white "blob" in the center of the image. The mysterious interstellar visitor is the third to carry unique information about the composition of matter outside the solar system On 1 July 2025, the ATLAS survey detected comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS). The very first measurements of its orbit showed that it was the third interstellar object discovered since 2017 (after C/2017 U1 (PANSTARRS) and C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)). Very soon, astronomers around the world started observing the newly discovered object 3I/ATLAS, which, like the first two, carried unique information [...]

Връзки с обществеността2025-07-28T16:01:51+03:00Monday, 28 July 2025|Categories: Astronomy, Space Research and Technologies|