From today, Sofia Airport is named after the Apostle of Freedom Vasil Levski. President Rumen Radev issued a decree (on the basis of Article 98, item 13 of the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria by his Decree No. 22 of 17 February 2025) by which the official name became "Vasil Levski" airport - Sofia. The project proposed by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for naming Sofia Airport after the brightest historical figure for Bulgaria, Vasil Levski, was supported by the Ministry of Transport and Communications in 2024. In 2017, the proposal to name the airport after the Apostle of Freedom was made by BAS scientists and received wide support. "With this act, we will all express to the greatest extent our respect to the [...]

The implementation of joint projects and initiatives between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan were discussed at a meeting at the Academy by the President of BAS, Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva and the Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Bulgaria, H.E. Viktor Temirbayev. Among the topics of the discussion was research in the field of green energy. Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva briefed Ambassador Temirbayev on the activities of BAS related to the study of the potential of hydrogen technologies. The two sides agreed that the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the two Academies, signed in 2023 in Astana, Kazakhstan, provides a framework for joint activities and underlined their readiness to strengthen cooperation [...]

  Scientific secretaries in seven of the nine research areas of BAS were elected by the General Assembly of the Academy at a meeting held on 10 February. According to the Statutes of BAS, the Scientific Secretaries have a term of four years and are part of the leadership team of the President of the Academy. In the Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies division, Prof. Ivan Georgiev from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies will serve a second term as the Scientific Secretary. Prof. Liliya Angelova from the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy has been elected in the "Energy Resources and Energy Efficiency" division, and Prof. Margarita Popova from the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry will be a [...]

  The cooperation between BAS and the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) in the field of cultural and historical heritage was discussed at a meeting at BAS by the President Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva and the Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan H.E. Huseyn Huseynov. Among the topics of discussion was the role of the institutes of the two academies of sciences in promoting the culture and history of Bulgaria and Azerbaijan. H.E. Huseynov said that 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the establishment of ANAS. The Academy has been a long-standing partner of BAS with successfully implemented joint projects and a number of joint scientific publications, and a new agreement on scientific cooperation in areas of common interest was signed on 4 July [...]

The President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva met with the Ambassador of France in Bulgaria H.E. Joël Meyer. The meeting was held at the Academy and was dedicated to the long-standing successful cooperation between BAS and French scientific institutions. The main focus of the talks was the preparation of a joint event to mark the 60th anniversary of the first agreement between BAS and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). The upcoming event is expected to renew the bilateral agreement between the two institutions which will provide new opportunities for scientific cooperation. Ambassador Joël Meyer stressed the importance of science as a key pillar in the bilateral relations between Bulgaria and France. He paid special attention to nuclear [...]