For the third consecutive year, some of the most popular buildings and urban spaces in Sofia were transformed by 3D mapping and light installations within the third edition of the LUNAR Festival of Lights - 2024. For the first year, the Central Building of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was included in the programme of the festival which took place from 9 to 12 May. The light installations also convey different messages about topics such as the preservation of the planet, the power of personal choice, freedom of self-expression, and technological development. "Wonder Home" is the light installation on the building of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - BAS. The Academy has always believed in the unifying powers of science and art. LUNAR is an [...]

The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Member of the Academy, attended today the opening of the first hydrogen fuelling station for Bulgaria and the region. It is part of the infrastructure of the "Integrated Energy Systems" Field Laboratory of the "HITMOBIL" Centre of Competence and marks the beginning of hydrogen electric mobility in the country. In the construction of the facility, the main contractors are the DELECTRA, AQUACHIM and MONBAT companies. The hydrogen fuelling station, made by the Austrian company EDC-ANLAGENTECHNIK, has fuelling capabilities at the two standard pressures for compressed hydrogen - 350 and 700 bar. Hydrogen can be fed into the fuelling station via two inlets. One is connected to an electrolyzer with a capacity of 8.5 kg per day which produces [...]

  Prof. Dr. Neli Koseva, Scientific Secretary-General of BAS, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lyuba Spasova, Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, participated in the delegation of the Ministry of Education and Science which took part in the series of events of the Ministerial Meeting of the Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development that took place on 23 and 24 April 2024 at the OECD building in Paris (https://www.oecd-events.org/mm24/en/content/test). The meeting aimed at open dialogue and engagement of representatives from different sectors of government, academia, industry, agriculture, civil society and other stakeholders in the search for sustainable solutions and responsible development of new technologies related to the green transition and digital transformation. It is hoped [...]