The President of BAS – Prof. Julian Revalski, full member of the Academy, had a working meeting with Prof. Felix Unger, President of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. The meeting was held in BAS on 16 January 2020. One of the main activities of the European Academy has been holding of the Danube Academies Conference since 2011.
In 2020, the Conference will be held in Sofia, and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences will host the event on 15 and 16 October 2020. The topic will be related to climate research.
The meeting was attended by Prof. Evdokia Pasheva, Scientific Secretary-General of BAS, and Corr.-Mem. Dimitar Ivanov, Scientific Secretary of division “Biodiversity, Bioresources and Ecology”.
The Danube Academies Conference brings together all the national academies in the Danube Region and focuses on research in this area. It is a knowledge sharing platform between the national academies of Central and Eastern Europe. The idea dates from 2010 when the EU launched the EU Strategy for the Danube Region in order to improve the coordination of relevant actors and programs to promote the development of the Danube Region. On the basis of this EU project and the support of the European Commission, in particular Mr Johannes Hahn, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts organized the first conference of the Danube Academies in Vienna in 2011.
