A training course with international participation: BioDATA workshop "Accelerating biodiversity research through DNA barcodes, collection, and observation data" was held from 17 to 21 April at the Training and Experimental Base of the University of Forestry, Yundola. The event, which is a part of a series of international courses held in different countries, was organized by the Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics of BAS under the BULCode project (with the head of the project Sen. Asst. Prof. Georgi Bonchev, PhD), with the participation of lecturers from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (Assoc. Prof. Dmitry Shchigel, Laura Russell); University of Oslo, Norway (Prof. Hugo de Boer, Dr. Stefaniya Kamenova); University of Helsinki, Finland (Dr. Dag Endresen, Dr. Helena Virta), Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research [...]

The Regional Historical Museum - Blagoevgrad celebrated its 70th anniversary. At the opening of the exhibition prepared on this occasion, the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research of BAS was awarded with an honorary plaquette and a diploma for many years of fruitful cooperation and development of the palaeobotanical collection of the museum. For nearly a decade, scientists from the Palaeobotany and Palynology Section at IBER (Assoc. Professor Vladimir Bozukov, Corresponding Member Dimiter Ivanov) have been working together with the team of the Nature Department at RHM - Blagoevgrad, both in the field and in the design of exhibitions with plant fossils or temporary exhibitions. Summary information about the anniversary exhibition can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/BulgarianNewsAgency/videos/2025538980974025

At 18:00 on 20.09.2022 at the National Museum of Natural History of BAS was opened the exhibition "See the Unseen: The Dawn of Humanity" with the author of the scientific concept Prof. Nikolai Spassov. The exposition is the second of a series of temporary exhibitions presenting previously unseen specimens from the scientific collections of the National Museum of Natural History-BAS. It is related to the paleoanthropological discoveries made in our country and in the Balkans in the last 15 years - findings that change our perceptions of the first steps of humanity - both those of the pre-humans standing at the beginning of the human evolutionary line, and of the first modern humans inhabiting Europe. The exhibition was opened by the Minister of Culture Prof. [...]