The President of BAS, Corresponding Member Evelina Slavcheva, received Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Croatia, H.E. Iva Kruleva, at the Academy today. The meeting was attended by Prof. Emmanuel Moutafov, DSc, Vice-President of BAS, and Prof. Neli Koseva, PhD, Scientific Secretary-General of BAS. The main topic of discussion was scientific cooperation between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) and the opportunities for strengthening this cooperation. Ambassador Kruleva and Corr. Memb. Slavcheva agreed that the re-signing of the bilateral agreement between BAS and HAZU would help to consolidate this cooperation. A suitable occasion for this will arise in 2027 which marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of scientific cooperation between the two academies. Cultural exchange initiatives were also discussed, [...]

The third edition of the summer school on Slavic palaeography: “The Cyrillo-Methodian Legacy: The Cyrillic Alphabet in the Medieval South Slavic Lands” opened on 27 July. The Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is organising the school which will run until 2 August. The initiative is being carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the “Prof. Ivan Dujčev” Centre for Slavo-Byzantine Studies at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, and the “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” National Library. The Director of the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre, Prof. Veselka Zhelyazkova, welcomed the participants and emphasised the significance of the Cyrillo-Methodian legacy as part of Europe’s cultural memory as well as the role of international academic cooperation [...]