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A working visit to the United States of the President of BAS and the General Scientific Secretary

Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of BAS and Prof. Evdokia Pasheva, General Scientific Secretary, were on a working visit to the United States from April 21 to April 25, 2019. During the visit, they participated in a number of meetings at NSF (the National Science Foundation) in Washington, as well as at Harvard University. The US National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency founded by the US Congress in 1950 to fund fundamental research. Its budget for 2019 is 8,1 billion USD. The purpose of the visit was to discuss concrete opportunities for the financing of bilateral scientific Bulgarian-American projects in priority areas and the steps to be taken by both parties to achieve this goal. A number of meetings were held with managers [...]

Nikolay Ikonomov2019-05-09T16:19:08+03:00Thursday, 2 May 2019|Categories: General Academic News, Selected|

150 trees for Earth Day and the 150th anniversary of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Scientists and employees of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences launched the initiative to plant 150 trees on the occasion of Earth Day and the 150th anniversary of BAS. Saplings of more than 25 deciduous and coniferous species will be afforested in the scientific complex of BAS at 4th km. […]

Nikolay Ikonomov2019-04-25T22:09:42+03:00Monday, 22 April 2019|Categories: Biodiversity, Bioresources and Ecology, Selected|Tags: 150BAS|

The President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Prof. Julian Revalski participated in the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) triennial General Assembly

The President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Prof. Julian Revalski participated in the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) triennial General Assembly in Songdo, Korea, on 11 April 2019. The meeting, hosted by the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), brought together over 100 representatives of science academies from 54 countries as well as the four IAP regional networks and the Global Young Academy. Projects of IAP were presented and the IAP Strategic and Implementation Plan 2019-2021 was voted. There were elections for the IAP for Science and IAP for Health Executive Committees. […]

Nikolay Ikonomov2019-04-18T18:28:19+03:00Tuesday, 16 April 2019|Categories: General Academic News, Selected|Tags: International Cooperation|

New research project of NMNHS – BAS to explore the invertebrate fauna of the Balkan Peninsula

Easily accessible internet-based platforms describing model invertebrate genera of the Balkan Peninsula as spiders and rove beetles are being developed by scientists from the National Museum of Natural History at BAS. They will collect and analyze data from molecular, statistical and morphological studies in order to lay the foundations for research on the invertebrate fauna of the peninsula. The results will be presented on the platforms: http://balkan-spiders.com for spiders and http://coleoptera-bulgaria.myspecies.info – for beetles. […]

Nikolay Ikonomov2019-04-22T15:44:13+03:00Monday, 15 April 2019|Categories: Biodiversity, Bioresources and Ecology, Selected|

Scientists from BAS are developing a reusable space rocket system

The European FALCon project is competing the attempts to “recycle” rockets of American SpaceX and Blue Origin Scientists from the Institute of Mechanics of BAS (IMEch-BAS) are working on creating a multiple-use rocket stage that will be cheaper, safer for the environment and more efficient than existing US “rocket recycling” developments. […]

Nikolay Ikonomov2019-04-21T16:35:01+03:00Friday, 12 April 2019|Categories: Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, Selected|

Seven cosmonauts together at BAS on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the flight of Georgi Ivanov

An exhibition of photographs from the flight of the first Bulgarian cosmonaut can be seen until April 14 at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The exhibition is shown for the first time and is prepared by the Institute of Space Research and Technology of BAS. […]