The seventeenth Spring Seminar of PhD students and young scientists from BAS institutes was held from 23 to 25 April in the hall of the "Mechatronics and Clean Technologies" National Center of Excellence, Geo Milev Campus. PhD students, young scientists and postdocs from eight institutes of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: IOCCPC, IOMT, IEES, IP, ISSP, IE, IMicB and IGIC, and from two universities: UCTM-Sofia and MU-Sofia participated. The papers of the participants covered topical areas of science and provoked lively discussions. The programme included scientific and educational lectures in the field of chemistry, physics, biology and materials science presented by Corr. Memb. Prof. DSc Vassya Bankova - IOCCPC, Prof. DSc Liudmil Antonov - IE, Prof. Dr. Albena Alexandrova - INB, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emi [...]

  The 20th edition of the National Round of the Geography and Economics Olympiad was held on 19-21 April 2024. The opening ceremony was hosted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Guests of the event were Mrs. Emilia Lazarova, Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Corr. Memb. Nikolay Miloshev, Director of the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography - BAS and Prof. Denitsa Borisova, Scientific Secretary of the “Climate Change, Hazards and Natural Resources” division, BAS. NIGGG - BAS is a co-organizer of the event. The message of the 20th edition of the Olympiad to the participants in the 30th National Geography Olympiad will be kept in the NIGGG - BAS. A hundred and twenty-seven students from the country took part in the competition. [...]

The Space Research and Technology Institute (SRTI) of BAS is organizing today an Open Day on the occasion of the International Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics. The Director, Prof. Georgi Zhelev, welcomed scientists and guests and recalled Bulgaria's successes as a space-faring country. In 2024 we celebrate the 45th anniversary of the flight of the first Bulgarian cosmonaut Georgi Ivanov. Bulgaria is already part of NASA's Artemis programme which will most likely become a stepping stone for a flight to Mars, Prof. Zhelev said and added that our country's participation could ensure the flight of a third Bulgarian cosmonaut. Scientists of SRTI are working on many projects in different fields, the director of the institute also said. The results of the scientific developments were presented [...]

A meeting of the Forum for Combating Pseudoscience on "Fake Science and the Fight against it" was held on 28 March in the "Prof. Marin Drinov" conference hall. In separate reports, Acad. Ivan Zagorchev and Acad. Christo Tsvetanov presented the contemporary view on scientific ethics and evaluation of scientific production as well as the enormous harm caused by the appearance of fringe journals, fake publications and other manifestations of pseudoscience. Prof. Evgeni Semkov revealed the fallacious nature of a number of fake sciences parasitizing around modern astronomy. The lecturers analysed the problem of fraud in science which was growing and was currently a worldwide problem. "Fake science" (pseudoscience) is the opposite of "science"; it is a set of ideas and claims that are not scientifically [...]

On 15.03.2024, at 13:30, the Annual Roundtable of the Center for National Security and Defence Research (CNSDR) at BAS on "Science and Innovation for Security, Defence and Space" was held at the Joint Innovation Center (JIC) of BAS. The roundtable was opened by the Director of CNSDR-BAS Mr. Kamen Iliev, and the guests were welcomed by the Vice-President of BAS – Corr. Memb. Stefan Hadjitodorov, and the Director of the JIC - Mr. Marin Pandev. In the first part, which was chaired by Corr. Memb. Stefan Hadjitodorov, Vice-President of BAS and member of the Board of the Consortium of "S&D" NSP a report was made on the activities carried out by the teams of BAS in the first year of the "Security and Defence" National [...]