The cooperation between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Japanese scientific institutions was discussed at a meeting at BAS by the President, Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, and the Ambassador of Japan to Bulgaria, H.E. Hiroshi Narahira. The second secretary for economic affairs at the embassy, Ms. Michiyo Miyamoto, also took part in the talks. […]
The awards are on the occasion of the 170th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Vazov The prominent Vazov expert Corresponding Member Milena Tsaneva was awarded the “Marin Drinov” Badge of Honour of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for her research on iconic names from the Bulgarian literary classics and especially the work of Ivan Vazov. The President of BAS, Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, presented her with the award at a solemn ceremony in “Ivan Vazov” National Theater. […]
At the first meeting of the Eighth General Assembly of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (GA), Prof. Evelina Slavcheva was elected Chair of the supreme management body of the Academy Prof. Evelina Slavcheva was elected with 75 votes “for” from the present 86 members. Only her nomination was raised for the leadership post. She was a Chairman of the Seventh General Assembly of BAS (April 26, 2016). […]
The National Assembly approved the annual report of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for 2019 at today's plenary session. The President of BAS, Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, presented the activity of BAS during the past year to the deputies. BAS strengthens its role as a leading scientific institution - over 50% of the referenced scientific articles according to Web of Science for 2019 are of researchers from the Academy, highlighted Prof. Revalski and said that there was stability of the scientific results of the researchers from BAS which were also aimed at their direct application in practice. The inventions by scientific units of BAS recognized in 2019 are 40, and 20 utility models have been registered. Prof. Julian Revalski paid special [...]
The Scientific Secretary-General of BAS, Prof. Evdokia Pasheva, participated in a virtual meeting of the General Assembly of the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) on 3 June. Two new academies were accepted as members of ALLEA: the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts and the German Junge Akademie (Youth Academy). The meeting also elected new members of the Board of ALLEA for the period 2020-2022. The Board consists of 10 representatives of academies from Austria, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The activities of the organization during the last 12 months and the steps for implementation of the strategic goals of ALLEA were discussed. The ALLEA activities report for 2019-2020 can be found [...]
The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, participated in a virtual meeting of the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC) which took place on 29 May. The meeting discussed the activities of the organization over the past six months as well as some of the new documents of EASAC: the report "Packaging plastics in the circular economy" https://www.bas.bg/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/EASAC-Plastics-complete-Web-PDF.pdf, the commentary on the EU's environmental recovery after COVID-19 https://www.bas.bg/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/EASAC_Covid19Recovery_Web_26_May.pdf and others. One of the main topics of the meeting was related to the activities undertaken by the member academies in response to the coronavirus. Prof. Revalski presented the active work of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in nine points, emphasizing that the Academy reflected on its website also the news from [...]
