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 [...]

On 29 - 30 May 2024, a jubilee scientific conference "Cultural Heritage - Art - Museums" will be held in honour of Corr. Memb. Mila Santova. The interdisciplinary forum discusses topics in the field of art studies, museology, tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The official opening of the event was honoured by Vice President Iliana Iotova. She addressed Corr. Memb. Mila Santova with the words "You are a true encyclopaedist, there are few such people not only in Europe but also in the world". In her speech, the Vice President pointed out that there was a lot of talk about linking cultural and historical heritage with tourism but there was no legal framework for this policy. Special greetings to Corr. Memb. Santova were made by: [...]