The 25th International Congress of Byzantine Studies is taking place in Vienna from 24 to 29 August. The Byzantine Studies Congresses are the world’s largest event dedicated to the latest research and discoveries relating to Byzantium, its history and culture. Since the first such congress in 1924 in Bucharest, the event has been held approximately every five years in various locations, recently attracting up to 1,500 participants. This edition of the congress brings together scholars from around the world who will present their papers in person at the University of Vienna. The congress, organised by the Austrian Association for Byzantine Studies, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the local University, is accompanied by cultural events, receptions and numerous opportunities for professional and informal networking. [...]

Joint initiatives were discussed by the President of BAS, Corresponding Member Evelina Slavcheva, and the Bulgarian ambassador to Slovakia, H.E. Snezhana Yoveva, during a working meeting held at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences today. The President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dr Martin Venhart, visited BAS in July, said Corr. Memb. Slavcheva. During his meeting with representatives of the Academy, the “Science for Business” forum, organised annually by BAS, was presented, as was the collaboration between Bulgarian scientists and the business sector highlighted Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva during the discussion. The idea of scientists from the Slovak Academy of Sciences to contribute with developments to next year’s edition of “Science for Business” was discussed at the meeting. H.E. Snezhana Yoveva spoke about the scientific [...]

At the initiative of Prof. Emmanuel Moutafov, DSc, Vice-President of BAS, the necessary changes were made to the website, documentation, and procedures of the “Prof. Marin Drinov” Academic Publishing House in order to establish a partnership with Clarivate Analytics. The global analytics, data, and research company, also known simply as Clarivate, primarily maintains the Web of Science (WoS) - a platform for scientific journals and citations - and the Journal Citation Report (JCR) - an annual report on the influence of scientific journals through scientometrics, i.e., through the impact factor. Some of the journals published by BAS institutes are already indexed in the WoS system but through the established partnership between Clarivate and the “Prof. Marin Drinov” PH, the monitoring and evaluation of the Academic [...]