“Marin Drinov” honorary medal for Corr. Memb. Atanas Kovachev

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences honoured Corr. Memb. Atanas Kovachev with the "Marin Drinov" honorary medal. The Vice-Chairman of the Assembly of Academicians and Corresponding Members of BAS, Acad. Damyan Damyanov, presented the award at a ceremony held on 29 April. The honorary medal is awarded to Corr. Memb. Kovachev for his contribution to the architectural heritage of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, for his achievements in designing, research, multifaceted public, organizational, expert and pedagogical activities and on the occasion of his 70th anniversary. The scientific interests of Corr. Memb. Atanas Kovachev are in the field of urban theory and history of architecture, urban and territorial planning; development of green systems; buildings and recreational complexes; ecological problems of settlements; sustainable development of territories. Corr. Memb. [...]

2024-05-10T10:22:05+03:00Tuesday, 30 April 2024|Categories: General news|

Seventeenth Spring Seminar of Doctoral Students and Young Scientists “Interdisciplinary Chemistry”

The seventeenth Spring Seminar of PhD students and young scientists from BAS institutes was held from 23 to 25 April in the hall of the "Mechatronics and Clean Technologies" National Center of Excellence, Geo Milev Campus. PhD students, young scientists and postdocs from eight institutes of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: IOCCPC, IOMT, IEES, IP, ISSP, IE, IMicB and IGIC, and from two universities: UCTM-Sofia and MU-Sofia participated. The papers of the participants covered topical areas of science and provoked lively discussions. The programme included scientific and educational lectures in the field of chemistry, physics, biology and materials science presented by Corr. Memb. Prof. DSc Vassya Bankova - IOCCPC, Prof. DSc Liudmil Antonov - IE, Prof. Dr. Albena Alexandrova - INB, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emi [...]

2024-04-30T11:31:48+03:00Monday, 29 April 2024|Categories: General news|

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences hosted the opening ceremony of the National Round of the XX National Olympiad in Geography and Economics

  The 20th edition of the National Round of the Geography and Economics Olympiad was held on 19-21 April 2024. The opening ceremony was hosted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Guests of the event were Mrs. Emilia Lazarova, Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Corr. Memb. Nikolay Miloshev, Director of the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography - BAS and Prof. Denitsa Borisova, Scientific Secretary of the “Climate Change, Hazards and Natural Resources” division, BAS. NIGGG - BAS is a co-organizer of the event. The message of the 20th edition of the Olympiad to the participants in the 30th National Geography Olympiad will be kept in the NIGGG - BAS. A hundred and twenty-seven students from the country took part in the competition. [...]

2024-04-23T09:57:50+03:00Monday, 22 April 2024|Categories: General news|

Fifth Interdisciplinary Doctoral Forum with International Participation

Fifth Interdisciplinary Doctoral Forum with International Participation, organized by the PhD Training Center of BAS (TC-BAS) and the Career Center at TC-BAS was held from 16 to 19 April 2024 in Park Hotel Kyustendil, Kyustendil, Bulgaria. The Forum is held under the sign of the 155th anniversary of the founding of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and with the support of the National Scientific Programme "Development and Promotion of Bulgarian Studies Abroad" funded by the Ministry of Education and Science. The traditional PhD Forum of the Training Centre of BAS, bringing together young researchers and established scientists, was officially opened on 16 April 2024 by Prof. Dr. Evdokia Pasheva, Vice-President of BAS and Director of the BAS Training Centre. In three consecutive days, more than [...]

2024-04-23T09:55:45+03:00Monday, 22 April 2024|Categories: General news, Selected|

SRTI celebrates the International Aviation and Cosmonautics Day

The Space Research and Technology Institute (SRTI) of BAS is organizing today an Open Day on the occasion of the International Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics. The Director, Prof. Georgi Zhelev, welcomed scientists and guests and recalled Bulgaria's successes as a space-faring country. In 2024 we celebrate the 45th anniversary of the flight of the first Bulgarian cosmonaut Georgi Ivanov. Bulgaria is already part of NASA's Artemis programme which will most likely become a stepping stone for a flight to Mars, Prof. Zhelev said and added that our country's participation could ensure the flight of a third Bulgarian cosmonaut. Scientists of SRTI are working on many projects in different fields, the director of the institute also said. The results of the scientific developments were presented [...]

2024-04-15T09:57:37+03:00Friday, 12 April 2024|Categories: General news|

Scientists from BAS gather at a forum to fight fake science

A meeting of the Forum for Combating Pseudoscience on "Fake Science and the Fight against it" was held on 28 March in the "Prof. Marin Drinov" conference hall. In separate reports, Acad. Ivan Zagorchev and Acad. Christo Tsvetanov presented the contemporary view on scientific ethics and evaluation of scientific production as well as the enormous harm caused by the appearance of fringe journals, fake publications and other manifestations of pseudoscience. Prof. Evgeni Semkov revealed the fallacious nature of a number of fake sciences parasitizing around modern astronomy. The lecturers analysed the problem of fraud in science which was growing and was currently a worldwide problem. "Fake science" (pseudoscience) is the opposite of "science"; it is a set of ideas and claims that are not scientifically [...]

2024-04-04T16:36:32+03:00Monday, 1 April 2024|Categories: General news|
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