The Vice-President of BAS Corr. Memb. Evdokia Pasheva has met with the Director of the Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe of the Francophone University Agency (AUF), Prof. Laure Castin. During the conversation which took place at the Academy on 28 May, Corr. Memb. Pasheva presented the activities of BAS aimed at training young scientists and PhD students carried out by the Training Centre at BAS and the Career Centre of it. Corr. Memb. Pasheva also highlighted the long-standing successful cooperation between BAS and scientific organizations from France in the framework of various international programs. Prof. Laure Castin confirmed the commitment of the Francophone University Agency to collaborate with BAS in supporting young scientists. She presented a number of AUF initiatives aimed at building [...]

A letter-petition from the Assembly of Academicians and Corresponding Members of BAS for the termination of homeopathy teaching in vocational schools was handed over by the Chairman of the Forum against Pseudoscience at AACM Acad. Ivan Juhnovski to the Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev. "The recommendations of the leading scientific medical organizations in the world are to stop teaching the pseudoscience of "homeopathy", to limit the distribution of homeopathic products and to conduct extensive explanatory work among the population about the futility and harm of treatment with such products. In the last two years, under the influence of the petitions of BAS scientists against the teaching of homeopathy in medical universities and on the decisions of the Rectors, the teaching of homeopathy at [...]

A solemn assembly on the occasion of May 24 was held today at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The Vice-President of BAS Prof. Emmanuel Moutafov opened the celebration in the "Prof. Marin Drinov" Hall with an excerpt in Old Bulgarian from "On the Letters" by Chernorizets Hrabar. The President of the Academy Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva greeted the scientists and guests on the Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian alphabet, education and culture and of the Slavic literature. "Today we can proudly say that the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences continues the work of its founders who adored letters as well as of Sts. Cyril and Methodius and their followers in their mission to literate, educate and enlighten the nation. [...]