On March 6, 2023, in the Bulgarian News Agency Press Club, the Executive Board of the National Scientific Programme "Development and Promotion of Bulgarian Studies Abroad" presented the goals and objectives of the Programme. The coordinator of the Programme is the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and the partners are the leading centers in Bulgarian studies issues - Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski", "St. Cyril and St. Methodius" University of Veliko Tarnovo, "Neofit Rilski" South-West University, "Konstantin Preslavsky" University of Shumen and the institutes of BAS in division "Cultural and Historical Heritage and National Identity". In the press conference on the topic members of the Executive Board of the Programme took part: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elka Traykova, National Coordinator and Scientific Secretary [...]

Exhibition "150 years since the death of Vasil Levski. Places of Memory (1873 - 1933)" is on display at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 16 to 28 February in the Central Building of BAS (1, 15th November Street). The exhibition has been prepared by the Institute for Historical Studies and the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and is part of a National Programme adopted by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria to commemorate this significant anniversary. It is a sign of the Academy's profound respect for the personality and work of one of the brightest persons in our national pantheon. The President of BAS Prof.  Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, opened the exhibition. Deputy Minister [...]

  The National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NAIM at BAS) presents the national archaeological exhibition "Bulgarian Archaeology 2022", which can be visited until 21 May 2023 in the temporary exhibition hall of NAIM (1, Atanas Burov Square). For the sixteenth consecutive time, the exhibition shows the most interesting finds and rich illustrative material from the fieldwork of Bulgarian archaeologists in the previous year.  Posters for 53 archaeological projects are presented as an important part of the exhibition. The exhibition presents more than 300 exhibits from 30 sites illustrating the development of cultures in today's Bulgarian lands from the Neolithic (6000 years BC) to the Middle Ages. Among them are the ongoing studies of the prehistoric settlement mounds of Provadia, [...]