Horizon Europe Calls 2024 Information & Brokerage Session: Digital Platforms for the Cloud-Edge-IoT, Innovation through Open Source and Software

The European Commission DG-CONNECT and the EUCloudEdgeIoT initiative cordially invite you join the Horizon Europe Information and Brokerage Event on 4 December 2023, from 9:00 – 15:00 CET.The event will be in hybrid mode (online and in-person in Brussels at SPARKS).During this event, you have the opportunity to learn about the Horizon Europe 2024 Calls on […]

Fit for 55 climate package: Impact on EU employment by 2030

One of the core strategic objectives of the EU is to ensure that Europe becomes the first climate-neutral continent, with net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To achieve this objective, EU policymakers adopted the Fit for 55 policy package in 2021, which contained more ambitious intermediate decarbonization objectives aimed at reaching a 55% emission […]

The European Innovation Council Tech report 2023 is out!

Тhe EIC Tech Report 2023 highlights novel technologies and innovations submitted to the EIC under Horizon Europe. The report has an emphasis on early-stage research projects, funded following extensive independent expert review. It also includes some areas of technology that have attracted high quality proposals, but that are not funded to date by the EIC. […]

Seminar on “Intellectual property – the key to successful business”

On October 31, 2023, a joint seminar on “Intellectual property – the key to successful export” will be held, co-organized by the Patent Office Of The Republic Of Bulgaria, the Hub for Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at Sofia University and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The seminar is dedicated to the interests […]

Patent Knowledge Week 2023 at the European Patent Office

Patent Knowledge Week is organized by the European Patent Office from November 28th to 30th 2023. The Week takes place in a fully digital format The event caters for a wide range of audiences, from patent information specialists to newcomers from SMEs, universities, researchers, etc. with minimal or no patent knowledge. The Patent Knowledge Week […]

Fulbright scholarships for research and lecturing in the United States

ABOUT THE FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM Fulbright scholarships for teaching and research activities enable Bulgarian scientists and university professors to work in their specialty for 3 to 5 months at prestigious universities and scientific institutes in the USA. Grants are awarded in all fields of study except clinical medicine and dentistry. 5-7 scholarships are awarded each […]

MSCA opens €78.5m call for Staff Exchanges

The Staff Exchanges action offers a unique opportunity to boost knowledge transfer and innovation through international research cooperation projects. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges 2023 call is open as of today. The deadline to submit proposals is 28 February 2024. The European Commission will allocate €78.5 million to fund around 75 projects promoting cooperation between organisations in the EU and […]

Promotion of Young Scientists in Central and Eastern Europe (PROMYS) – Call for Proposals 2023, Second Swiss Contribution

PROMYS is one of the three funding programmes offered by the SNSF as part of the secondSwiss contribution to selected EU member states. The mandate was given by the SwissAgency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The programme is intended to createpromising and interesting career opportunities for outstanding researchers in Bulgaria and tothus counteract a “brain […]

First open call of the EU-funded project SERMAS

The EU-funded project SERMAS just launched its first open call – DEVELOP with up to €100.000 for innovators developing technologies in the field of XR. SERMAS looks for solutions in different topics like privacy-preserving facial recognition, avatar generator runtime, multilingual speech recognition and more. Apply on F6S by 31 October at 17:00 CET

New supercomputer Hemus presented by IICT-BAS

A unique infrastructure complex opened its doors A new infrastructure complex with state-of-the-art technologies for digital transformation and high-performance computing was inaugurated today by Prime Minister Acad. Nikolai Denkov, the President of BAS Acad. Julian Revalski and the Director of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of BAS (IICT), Corr. Memb. Svetozar Margenov, who […]