The book "Icons from the National Church Museum of History and Archaeology" was officially presented on 11 March in the “Prof. Marin Drinov” Hall of BAS. The publication is the work of the Institute of Art Studies of BAS and the National Church Museum of History and Archaeology under the Holy Synod. The President of BAS, Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva, attended the event and congratulated the team that prepared the unique in content, form and significance edition. "The material is organized as artifacts are published in a thematic exhibition with a conference. An important achievement of the publication is the authors' statement that the origin of many icons that had been lost or misplaced has been recovered. New icon painters have been identified, and a [...]

On March 11, 2025, a public meeting-discussion on "Bridging Cultures: The Albanian View on Cultural Diplomacy" was held at the “Ivan Geshov” Hall of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. It is part of a series of events on cultural diplomacy in Bulgaria and the Balkans organized by the Institute of Balkan Studies with Center for Thracology at BAS (IBSCT-BAS) in partnership with the State Institute for Culture under the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria (SIC). The initiative is implemented within the framework of the "Cultural Diplomacy in the Balkans in the 20th and 21st Century: Achievements, Problems, Challenges and the Way Forward" project funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund of MES. The public meeting-discussion was opened by the Vice-President of [...]

The Vice-President of BAS Prof. Shtelian D. Shterionov participated in a ceremony to pay tribute to the memory of the innocent victims of the Holocaust and commemorate 82 years since the salvation of the Bulgarian Jews. The event was held on March 10 in front of the "The Wall of the Bulgarian Righteous" memorial in the courtyard of 134 "Dimcho Debelyanov" High School - ORT School. Archimandrite John offered a memorial prayer for the victims. The event was also attended by Minister of Justice Georgi Georgiev, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Defence Hristo Gadzhev, Deputy Minister of Education and Science Tania Mihajlova, ambassadors, representatives of the rabbinate, Orthodox clergy and citizens. Wreaths and flowers were laid at the "Wall of the Bulgarian Righteous" memorial [...]

On March 4, 2025, in the “John Atanasoff” Hall of Sofia Tech Park, a solemn celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Institute of Polymers at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences took place. Among the official guests were Prof. DSc Vassil Kirov - Chairman of the General Assembly of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Dr. Neli Koseva - Scientific Secretary-General of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Prof. DSc Margarita Popova - Scientific Secretary of “Nanosciences, New Materials and Technologies” division, Prof. Dr. Stoyan Shishkov - Deputy Rector of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Prof. DSc Krasimira Yoncheva – Vice-Rector for Science and Accreditation of Medical University-Sofia, Prof. Dr. Sevdalina Turmanova - Deputy Rector for academic work of "Prof. Dr. Assen Zlatarov" State University, Burgas. [...]

The project "Bulgarian Online Encyclopaedia . Connected and accessible encyclopaedic  knowledge" has been presented at the first information day on the project activities at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences by the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies and the "Bulgarian Encyclopaedia " Scientific Information Centre of BAS. The aim of the project is to develop a specialized online platform including multifunctional databases. Through the platform, the rich resource of scientific encyclopaedic  articles, archival materials (documents and photos) will be digitized, structured and made available for public use. Prof. Ivan Lirkov, Prof. Kiril Simov from IICT and Dr. Ralitsa Geleva-Tsvetkova from the "Bulgarian Encyclopaedia " Scientific Information Centre presented the activities of the project. The event was attended by Prof. Julian Revalski, Member of the Academy [...]