The President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Prof. Julian Revalski, Member of the BAS, has met with the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China in Sofia H.E. Dai Qingli today at the Academy. Prof. Revalski presented the current joint projects between the scientists of BAS, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) which are long-standing partners of the Academy. During the meeting, the bilateral cooperation between Bulgaria and China in the field of scientific research and in particular in the field of space research was discussed. It was agreed to hold a meeting with taikonauts from the Chinese Space Station in October this year. The meeting will be organized with the kind assistance of the [...]

Two Vice-Chairpersons and a Secretary of the Ninth General Assembly of BAS (term 2024-2028) were elected at the second meeting held on 1 July 2024 at the Academy. Prof. Dr. Ivanka Tsakovska from the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering and Prof. Dr. Petar Petrov from the Institute of Polymers were unanimously elected as Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly of the BAS. Prof. Dr. Desislava Paneva-Marinova from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics was supported as Secretary of the General Assembly of BAS. See more HERE The Vice-Chairpersons of the General Assembly replace the President in his absence or at his order and together with the Secretary assist him and carry out activities assigned by him (Article 21, paragraph 2 of the Statutes of BAS). [...]

At its first meeting, held on 24 June, the newly elected Ninth General Assembly of BAS elected Prof. Vassil Kirov as the Chairman of the General Assembly of the Academy (term 2024-2028). Prof. Kirov is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of BAS. His research interests include the sociology of work and organizations, industrial relations and digitalization. Prof. Kirov is a leading researcher in major EU-funded research projects (SMALL, WORKS, WALQING, ENLIVEN, BEYOND4.0) and an expert of the European Commission, the International Labour Organization, EUROFOUND and CEDEFOP. Member of the European Commission's High Level Expert Group on the impact of digitalisation on EU labour markets. "The priorities of the Ninth General Assembly of BAS will be to achieve a budget of [...]

  The President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Prof. Julian Revalski, Member of BAS, is part of the delegation to the 19th World Meeting of the Bulgarian Media organized by the Bulgarian News Agency. This year's forum is taking place between 18 and 21 June in three cities in Ukraine - Odessa, Bolgrad and Izmail where there are large Bulgarian communities. In Braila, Romania, the Bulgarian delegation celebrated the 155th anniversary of the founding in the city of the oldest institution of modern Bulgaria - the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences established under the name of Bulgarian Learned Society in 1869 even before the Liberation, in a house on the site where the Church of the Ascension, called the "Bulgarian Church", was built. Prof. Julian [...]

On 23 May and 24 May the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at BAS hosted the General Assembly of the "European Cultural Route of St. Cyril and Methodius" Association. The CMRC has been a member of this association since 2020, and in 2021 it was certified with the Council of Europe Cultural Route label. In 2023, the National Archaeological Museum of Veliki Preslav also joined it. The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Sofia Municipality supported the event which was opened by the Vice-President of BAS, Corr. Memb. Stefan Hadjitodorov. In his welcome address to the participants from Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, North Macedonia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Corr. Memb. Hadjitodorov emphasized that the Academy, as the first institution to institutionalize research in Cyrillic studies, strongly supports the [...]