The 93rd General Assembly of the Union Academique Internationale (UAI) is being held in Mainz, Germany, 13-14 October 2025. Prof. Emmanuel Moutafov is the delegate of BAS in the international organization. He is the head of the only Bulgarian project under the auspices of UAI – Corpuses of Christian Orthodox Painting of the Ottoman Period which involves researchers from the Romanian Academy, the Albanian Academy of Sciences and SASU as well as from BAS.
The forum will evaluate all the long-term projects in operation which number approximately 100. More than 100 academies from all over the world and from 63 countries are participating in the UAI.
During the forum, Prof. Moutafov held talks for future cooperation with Prof. Christoph Markschies, President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities as well as with Prof. Andrea Rapp, President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. This academy hosts the event and was founded in 1949.
