On March 4, 2025, in the “John Atanasoff” Hall of Sofia Tech Park, a solemn celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Institute of Polymers at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences took place. Among the official guests were Prof. DSc Vassil Kirov - Chairman of the General Assembly of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Dr. Neli Koseva - Scientific Secretary-General of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Prof. DSc Margarita Popova - Scientific Secretary of “Nanosciences, New Materials and Technologies” division, Prof. Dr. Stoyan Shishkov - Deputy Rector of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Prof. DSc Krasimira Yoncheva – Vice-Rector for Science and Accreditation of Medical University-Sofia, Prof. Dr. Sevdalina Turmanova - Deputy Rector for academic work of "Prof. Dr. Assen Zlatarov" State University, Burgas. [...]

The project "Bulgarian Online Encyclopaedia . Connected and accessible encyclopaedic  knowledge" has been presented at the first information day on the project activities at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences by the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies and the "Bulgarian Encyclopaedia " Scientific Information Centre of BAS. The aim of the project is to develop a specialized online platform including multifunctional databases. Through the platform, the rich resource of scientific encyclopaedic  articles, archival materials (documents and photos) will be digitized, structured and made available for public use. Prof. Ivan Lirkov, Prof. Kiril Simov from IICT and Dr. Ralitsa Geleva-Tsvetkova from the "Bulgarian Encyclopaedia " Scientific Information Centre presented the activities of the project. The event was attended by Prof. Julian Revalski, Member of the Academy [...]

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Ladies' Forum Association will collaborate to support business and innovations. The President of BAS Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva and Ms. Diana Miteva, Chairperson of the Board of the Association, have signed a partnership agreement between the two organizations at a ceremony held today at the Academy. Trainings, information events and campaigns are to be organized by both parties according to the signed document. It is planned to develop analyses and studies in areas such as innovation, science and education. During the talk at BAS, the link between successful women in business and science and the presentation of their experience and knowledge as support for young women entrepreneurs was highlighted. Diana Miteva talked about the programme specially developed by [...]

  The President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva and the Executive Directors of the "Fund Manager of Financial Instruments in Bulgaria" Fund of Funds Victoria Hristova and Biser Petkov have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation. The ceremony has taken place today at the Academy. The document provides for the exchange of knowledge and ideas between the scientific field, business, government institutions and society and the organisation of joint initiatives. The focus is on cooperation in applied research in the field of intellectual property and technology transfer. During the meeting, Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva noted how important was the work towards bringing science and business closer. An instrument to finance the science-business link is to be announced, Viktoria Hristova said. The [...]

The President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva met with the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China in Sofia H.E. Dai Qingli today at the Academy. During the talks, the long-standing scientific cooperation between BAS and various academic institutions in China was discussed. The two sides expressed readiness to expand and deepen the partnership with the Chinese Academy of Sciences while noting the successful joint work of scientists from BAS and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. A number of joint projects and initiatives implemented by individual BAS units in partnership with Chinese scientific institutions were discussed. In the light of the successful "Talk with Taikonauts" event held last November by China’s Space Station, prospects for deepening cooperation in the [...]