From 8 to 12 April, a delegation of BAS composed of the President of the BAS, Prof. Julian Revalski, Member of the Academy, and the Vice-President of BAS Corr. Memb. Stefan Hadjitodorov is visiting Hanoi, Vietnam. Prof. Revalski and Acad. Chau Van Minh, President of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), signed a new Annex to the Scientific Cooperation Agreement between BAS and VAST for the period 2025-2027. The official ceremony was attended by Corr. Memb. Stefan Hadjitodorov, H.E. Pavlin Todorov, Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to Vietnam, Assoc. Prof. Tran Tuan Anh, Vice President of VAST and Directors of VAST Institutes The BAS delegation visited the Institute of Information Technology, the Institute of Mathematics, the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, [...]

   The participation of scientific units of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in large-scale international projects was discussed at a meeting of representatives of the Academy with the EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Iliana Ivanova. The Secretary General of BAS Prof. Neli Koseva presented an update on the results of the multilateral activities of the scientists, the implementation of projects both under the Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation of the European Union as well as funded from national sources. The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is actively involved in scientific capacity building, coordinating 23 out of 51 infrastructure sites under the National Roadmap for Scientific Infrastructure. The number of scientific publications has been steadily increasing over the last two years, said [...]