Concert of students-winners of academic competitions of the “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” National Music Academy, part of the “MUSICORUM VIA. Two Academies - One Stage” initiative took place on 20 October at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The Vice-President of BAS Prof. Emmanuel Moutafov welcomed the guests. Enthusiasm, flowers and applause among the audience were aroused by the performances of the participants in the concert evening. Deyan Tabashki, Jia Hao, Yoana Zadikyan, Sima Chi, Teodora Tosheva, Qi Yixuan, Victor Teodosiev and Yan Aoxue presented works by C.W.Gluck, F. Chopin, G.  Puccini, G. Enescu, P. Vladigerov, P. Hadjiev and M. Arnold. At the piano: Viviana Grudanska, Zornitsa Getova, Zornitsa Radionova and Tatiana Bozhko. More and more representatives of AACM are being noticed among the symphonic music lovers, [...]

  The winner of the Pythagoras Grand Prize for lifetime contribution to science is Prof. Radostina Stoyanova from the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of BAS. The official ceremony for the highest awards for science of the Ministry of Education and Science took place on 14 October and was opened by the Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev. It was held for the 17th consecutive year, with 52 scientists applying for the eight categories. Minister Valchev presented the award to Prof. Radostina Stoyanova who had laid the foundation for the development of a new scientific field in the country - the chemistry of materials for clean and affordable energy storage. Her publications have been cited over 5 000 times and have a Hirsch [...]

The eminent Italian palaeoslavist and Bulgarian scholar Prof. Alessandro Maria Bruni was honored by the President of BAS, Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva, with a diploma of foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The ceremony took place today in the “Prof. Marin Drinov” Hall of the Academy.  It is a great honour for me and I accept my election not only as the highest appreciation for my scientific contribution, but also as an incentive to continue my research together with Bulgarian colleagues so that there will be even greater development of this very important discipline - Old Bulgarian Studies or Palaeoslavistics, Prof. Bruni said with gratitude. This support from the Academy is very important for the development of international cooperation, he stressed. The Assembly [...]