Kaloyan Konstantinov, a PhD student at the Institute of Balkan Studies with Centre for Thracology at BAS (IBSCT-BAS), has been awarded the prestigious Emerging Leader Award of King's College London. Since 2017, the award has been given in 12 categories to distinguished alumni who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and civic leadership. Kaloyan graduated with a Master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies in 2018 in London. In 2021, he enrolled in a PhD programme at IBSCT-BAS on Iran-Balkan relations between 1990-2021. He received the award for his work as an independent journalist covering the hot spots and world-changing events - including the war in Ukraine from the front, protests in Iran, Iraq, Israel, Tunisia and more. The jury also noted his work as an international [...]

On 25-27 April 2023, an International Scientific Conference "Constantine of Preslav’s Uchitel’noe Evangelie and the South Slavonic Homiletic Texts (IX-XIII century): Philological and Interdisciplinary Aspects" was held in Sofia. The scientific forum was organized by the Institute of Balkan Studies with Center of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences within the project "The Vocabulary of Constantine of Preslav's Uchitel'noe evangelie ('Didactic Gospel'): Old Bulgarian-Greek and Greek-Old Bulgarian Word Indices", funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund (contract No. KP-06-H50/2). Partner in the event was the Regional History Museum - Sofia. Thirty-five distinguished scientists from Bulgaria, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, as well as some young researchers from Bulgaria, Austria and Croatia, participated with papers. Plenary lectures were given by [...]

  The Cyrillo-Methodian Research Center at BAS, part of the consortium of the Center of Excellence "Heritage BG", and the Association of Bulgarian Schools Abroad are organizing an international  competition "Traces of Cyril and Methodius' work around the world".  This joint initiative is part of the celebrations in 2023 on the occasion of the 1160th anniversary of the Slavonic script and aims to promote the work of Cyril and Methodius among Bulgarian migrant communities on all continents, to enrich the knowledge of students from Bulgarian Sunday schools abroad, to develop their talents and encourage their research interests. There are 3 categories - a research project, an essay or short story on the topic "In their footsteps" and a drawing on the topic "Bulgarian alphabets". The [...]

  The Director of the Institute of Balkan Studies with Center of Thracology at BAS Prof. Dr. Roumiana Preshlenova was awarded the honorary title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Department of History and Ethnology at the Faculty of Classics and Humanities of Democritus University of Thrace in Komotini. The award is for her contributions to Balkan Studies and Bulgarian-Greek scientific cooperation. The ceremony took place on March 29 during a scientific meeting on "Balkan Culture in the Modern Era" with the participation of Bulgarian and Greek scholars. The event was attended by lecturers, students and the Counsellor at the Consulate General of the Republic of Bulgaria in Thessaloniki, Mr Valentin Pavlov.