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 [...]

The Eureka Awards were presented for the thirty-fifth time. They are awarded to young people for their significant achievements in science, for inventions of great social significance, for achievements in the management of business organisations, and for top results in the development of agricultural activities. The event was held on 30 January at the National Palace of Culture. The winner of the 2024 Eureka Prize for achievements in science is Dr. Maria Argirova - Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry of BAS. She was awarded the prize for the defense of her dissertation on "Synthesis of 1H-benzimidazol-2-yl hydrazones and investigation of their anthelmintic, antineoplastic and radical-scavenging activity". The main contribution of her thesis is the synthesis of a [...]

  The President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva met with the Ambassador of the Republic of Romania to Bulgaria H.E. Brândușa Predescu. The meeting took place at the Academy and discussed the cooperation between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Romanian Academy, as well as the possibility of holding joint conferences, round tables and exhibitions. Н.E. Brândușa Predescu and Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva also discussed cooperation beyond the bilateral agreement between the two academies. As it is known, during the celebrations of the 155th anniversary of BAS in the Romanian Academy last September, the Agreement on Scientific Cooperation between the two academies was re-signed. The new agreement provides a framework for scientific cooperation in the form of joint research [...]