The highest professional award of the Bulgarian Medical Union was received by Corr. Memb. Prof. Nikolay Gabrovsky during an official ceremony at the National History Museum (NHM) on 20 October 2025. The award was presented to him by Vice President Iliana Iotova. “Anyone who has chosen this path is not waiting for titles or awards because for him success is measured by the lives saved, for which there are no units of measure,” she said. In 2021, Prof. Gabrovsky became the youngest corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) in the field of “Medical Sciences”. Currently, he is Head of the Neurosurgery Clinic and Deputy Director for medical activities of “N. I. Pirogov” University Hospital. He has introduced innovative techniques in the field [...]

  The 93rd General Assembly of the Union Academique Internationale (UAI) is being held in Mainz, Germany, 13-14 October 2025. Prof. Emmanuel Moutafov is the delegate of BAS in the international organization. He is the head of the only Bulgarian project under the auspices of UAI - Corpuses of Christian Orthodox Painting of the Ottoman Period which involves researchers from the Romanian Academy, the Albanian Academy of Sciences and SASU as well as from BAS. The forum will evaluate all the long-term projects in operation which number approximately 100. More than 100 academies from all over the world and from 63 countries are participating in the UAI. During the forum, Prof. Moutafov held talks for future cooperation with Prof. Christoph Markschies, President of the Berlin-Brandenburg [...]

  The President of BAS, Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva met today at BAS with Acad. Yongguan Zhu, professor in biogeochemistry and soil environmental sciences, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice-President of its International Science Council. Acad. Zhu presented the 2021-2025 “Urban Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene” Action Plan developed under the International Science Council's Programme of the same name. Corr. Memb. Slavcheva presented the structure of BAS, the scientific divisions and the scientific cooperation with Chinese organizations. Opportunities for postdoctoral fellowships and exchanges of young scientists, collaboration in different fields of science, and the transdisciplinary approach in science - the impact of research on society, the political process and the economy were discussed. The meeting was attended by Prof. Neli Koseva, [...]