The President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva, visited the University of Osaka and met with the Dean of the School of Foreign Languages Prof. Sayo Tsutsui. The meeting, which took place on 7 October, was attended by Prof. Masaaki Shimizu, Head of the Foreign Studies Division, Prof. Dr. Katsumi Fujiwara, Head of the Russian Language Department, Ivo Vladimirov, Lecturer in Bulgarian, Old Bulgarian and Balkan Studies, and five students studying Bulgarian at the Faculty. During the discussion, held in the Momiji Lounge, Dean Tsutsui highlighted the success of the Bulgarian Language and Balkan Studies courses offered at the School of Foreign Languages. Corr. Memb. Slavcheva said that she would continue to support the University and deepen exchanges with it. The [...]

  The President of BAS, Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva, participated in the 18th edition of the “Academy of Science Presidents' Meeting” which is organized annually by the “Science Council of Japan” within the framework of the “Science and Technology in Society” forum (STS forum). “Innovation-promoting approaches to science funding” was the topic of discussion for this year's Meeting. Each participant was given the opportunity to share their institution's experience with securing funding for promising research in priority areas, and the positives and negatives of existing mechanisms for approving research projects for funding were discussed. Corr. Memb. Slavcheva presented the successful experience of BAS institutes in combining different national and international programs for funding research and innovation. The 22nd edition of the "Science and Technology in [...]

Sylvia Varhoshkova, PhD student at the Institute of Molecular Biology at BAS, represented Bulgaria at the 11th International Final of the competition “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” which took place on October 2 in Bucharest, Romania. After winning the first prize at the national final of the competition which took place on 28 May this year at the “Prof. Marin Drinov” Hall of BAS, Sylvia Varhoshkova presented her dissertation topic “Role and dynamics of FET proteins at sites of complex DNA damage” to an international audience. The prestigious event, organised by the Francophone University Agency (AUF), brought together 20 young scientists from different parts of the world to compete for the grand prize. The international competition “Ma Thèse en 180 secondes” (MT180) is a unique [...]

The international conference "Skills for Labour Markets in the Green and Digital Transition", part of the European research project SkiLMeeT (https://skilmeet.eu/) which brings together 70 participants from 23 countries is taking place in the central building of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - BAS. The event is focusing on key questions for the future: how green and digital transformation are changing jobs, education and the skills needed. Over 30 presentations will be made over the two days, with academics and experts discussing solutions to the skills shortage and ways to better support workers and employers. The programme includes highly-regarded speakers at European level. Simone Rosini from the European Commission's Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion presented the EU perspective on up-skilling, re-skilling and [...]