An information day on Progress in the implementation of the “National Centre of Mechatronics and Clean Technologies” project was held on 17 December in BAS. This is the third information day since the launch of the project. The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, opened the information day and expressed his satisfaction with bringing together the best scientists in Bulgaria in the field of mechatronics and clean technologies. This is the largest project in terms of scale and funding, which is an example of the most successful cooperation between institutes of BAS and higher education institutions in Bulgaria, a bridge between education and scientific work. Prof. Revalski noted that in recent years there has been a significant improvement in the [...]

The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, Scientific Secretary-General of BAS Prof. Neli Koseva and the Scientific Secretaries of BAS Prof. Margarita Popova, Corr.-Mem. Nina Atanasova and Assoc. Prof. Denitsa Borisova participated in a virtual meeting of the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) on 2 and 3 December 2021. […]

The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, and the Vice-President of BAS Corresponding Member Evdokia Pasheva participated in three Science Europe events held on 24-25 November 2021 in Luxembourg. […]

The results of the activities in the first two years since the establishment of two centres of competence of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences were presented at a meeting of the Assembly of Academicians and Corresponding Members of BAS. […]

 The Assembly of Academicians has elected today new Corresponding Members in the fields of Arts and Art Studies.   Arts and Art Studies Branch Department of Arts Corresponding Member Georgi Gospodinov Georgiev Born in 1968. He is a poet, writer and literary scholar. He is the author of more than 15 books in various genres - poetry, short stories, novels, plays, librettos for opera, studies of the recent past, film scripts. His “Natural Novel” and “The Physics of Sorrow” novel have been translated into 25 languages in over 40 countries worldwide. "Blind Vaysha," a short film based on his short story of the same name, made it to the final Oscar nominations in 2017. He works at the Institute of Literature at BAS. Department of [...]

The Assembly of Academicians has elected today new Corresponding Members in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Agricultural and Forestry Sciences. Humanities and Social Sciences Branch Humanities Corresponding Member Ivan Dinev Roussev, DSc Born in 1963. He is a scientist of international renown.  His main scientific field is the economic history of Bulgaria. He also works on the diplomatic history of the Black Sea and the Balkans (18th-19th centuries) and studies the European consular presence in the region.  His attention is mainly drawn to the French economy. The focus of his research is the economic history of the transition from the late Middle Ages to the modern era in the Bulgarian lands. Prof. Roussev works at the University of Economics in Varna. Social [...]