BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES GENERAL INFORMATION

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BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES GENERAL
INFORMATION

• Address 1, 15 Noemvri Str.
• Sofia 1040
• Bulgaria
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Site http//www.bas.bg

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You have minds and teams of first quality. You
are happy to have a structure like BAS. Bulgaria
can benefit from research and technological
development with a considerable gain for your
economic growth Louis BELLEMINE General
Directorate for Research In the European
Commission Reforms in the Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences Acad. Nikola Sabotinov, President of
BAS
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Optimizing the structure and the personnel of
the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Since the
beginning of the 90s a continued reform was
implemented in BAS, resulting in reduction of 27
of research units and 46 of personnel.
Nowadays the Academy comprises 52 research units,
12 central laboratories and 4 research centres.
It has 3719 scientists. They constitute 18 of
the total number of scientists in the country.
BAS scientists produce 60 of Bulgarian
scientific output, 60 of protected Bulgarian
patents and carry out 40 of the projects, funded
by the European framework programs. Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences serves as a National Research
Centre.
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Introduction of project funding Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences introduced the project
funding of its research activities in the
beginning of the 90s.
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Introduction of project funding
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Introduction of project funding
BAS infrastructure, including scientists
salaries, is supported by a state budget
subsidy. Funds for research are provided mainly
through project funding
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Ratio of basic to applied research Both basic
and applied research is carried out in the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The relationship
between these two types of research is of
particular importance for obtaining high-quality
applied scientific results. Up to the middle 90s
the ratio of basic to applied research in BAS was
60 to 40. The share of the applied research
gradually increased and now the ratio of basic to
applied research is 30 to 70. These ratios are
determined by Frascati method for definition of
basic and applied research.
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Science-based higher education in BAS About 700
BAS scientists deliver lectures at higher
education institutions.
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Science-based higher education in BAS
Every year between 600 and 1000 graduate students
from the higher education institutions prepare
their diploma theses at BAS laboratories.
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Science-based higher education in BAS
An Education centre is established at BAS.
Presently about 700 doctoral students prepare
their dissertations, i.e. about 20 of all
doctoral students in the country. Research
projects, carried out in BAS, involve students,
postgraduates and lecturers from countrys higher
education institutions. About 30 of the
scientific output of the higher education
institutions is in joint authorship with BAS
scientists. In 2007 in BAS there are 1905
academic degree holders, 439 Doctors of Sciences
and 2454 Ph.D.s.
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Participation of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in
EU Framework Programs Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences maintains an excellently organized
collaboration with more than 45 Academies in
Europe and the world, and with dozens of
Universities it is a member of all international
research organizations and represents Bulgaria in
more then 20 international scientific
institutions. It is the main factor for the
integration of Bulgaria with the European
Research Area. The beginning of the European
integration of Bulgaria in the field of science
is in 1990 under the PHARE program. Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences joined the Third Framework
Program of EU in 1992. In the period between 1992
and 1998 BAS implemented 152 successful projects
under Third and Fourth Framework Programs of EU
of the total 250 projects for the country.
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BAS participation in FP5, FP6 and FP7
5FP (1998-2002) number of projects submitted/approved received European funding (Euro) 6FP (2002-2006) number of projects submitted/approved received European funding (Euro) 7FP (2007-2013) number of projects submitted/approved received European funding (Euro) TOTAL (1998-2007) number of projects submitted/approved received European funding (Euro)
231/143 8,150,655 481/175 12,825,525 200/23 1,087,800 912/316 22,063,980
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• The scientific output of the participation of BAS
  scientists in Sixth Framework Program consists of
  652 scientific publications, 32 technology
  transfers to production firms (10 in Bulgaria and
  22 abroad) and 11 patents.
• The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences won projects
  for 8 Centers of Excellence under the Fifth and
  Sixth Framework Programs of EU.
• As a result of its participation in EU RD
  Framework Programs for the whole period 1992-2007
  Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has in total
• 493 successful projects with European funding
• About 28 millions Euro European funding,
  received directly at the institutes with
  successful participation.

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Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is the most
efficient research institution in Bulgaria,
taking part in the EU Framework Programs, leading
to successful participation of small and medium
enterprises as end users of the scientific
product.
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Development of the innovation process relations
with the business Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
steadily develops its innovation policy and works
for enlargement of the science-business relations
in Bulgaria. In 2007 BAS scientists have worked
on 493 projects with Bulgarian enterprises.
Yearly in BAS are developed from 80 to 250
technical solutions, of which 80 to 150 are
implemented in industry and social practice.
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• A Patent Office has been established in BAS for
  protection of intellectual property of BAS
  scientists. The patent activity in the last 5
  years (2003-2007) consists of
• Support of patents in BAS institutes - 252
• Support of inventors patents from BAS and
  external firms 378
• Submitted claims and claims in procedure for new
  patents in BAS institutes 280 5 European
  patents
• Submitted claims and claims in procedure for new
  patents from inventors of BAS and firms 398,
  including 24 European

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Bulgarian Academy of Sciences participates
successfully in the projects of National
Innovation Fund, which are actually
public-private partnership between the business
and the science. In 60 of the whole 300 funded
projects by the first four sessions of the Fund,
institutes of BAS participate as partners and in
30 projects BAS scientists are involved as
consultants. For comparison scientists from
Universities have about 20 projects. An
Innovation Centre has been established at BAS in
order to support innovative developments.
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There is a GIS Transfer Center at BAS, aimed at
transfer of scientific results towards small and
medium enterprises support and stimulation of
research activity development and
commercialization of competitive products, etc.
The Center employs 40 experts and consultants.
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• Activities of nationwide importance
• BAS provides for Bulgarian government the
  following all-year and round-o-clock activities
  of nationwide importance, requiring comprehensive
  scientific expertise
• Meteorological, hydrological and
  agrometeorological observations and forecasts,
  including those, related to potential weather
  disasters
• Registration and information of earthquake
  activity over the whole country and adjoining
  territories, as well as landslides and other
  hazardous seismic activities
• Registration and information of geomagnetic,
  ionospheric and other processes for defense and
  communication
• Monitoring of the environment and broad spectrum
  of environmental research on countrys territory,
  Black Sea basin and our territorial waters, etc.

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Activities of nationwide importance

• BAS created and operates the master node of the
  national research and educational network, which
  provides services to universities, research
  institutes and schools. The national GRID Center,
  providing universities and research institutes
  with most efficient distributed computational
  resources of second generation, operates n BAS
  for 2 years.
• The protection and security of computer networks
  and communication systems of ministries and
  agencies is provided by the National Laboratory
  of Computer Virology with BAS.

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• Bulgarian Academy of Sciences maintains close
  relations with the following ministries and
  agencies
• Ministry of Disaster Management Policy
• Ministry of Environment And Waters
• Ministry of Defense
• Ministry of Economy and Energy
• Ministry of Education and Science
• Ministry of Agriculture and Food Supply
• Ministry of Health
• State Agency for Information Technologies and
  Communications
• State Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises
• Bulgarian Industrial Association
• Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, etc.

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Priorities of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
for the period 2007 - 2013 The mission of the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is to contribute to
the development of the world science in
accordance with the human values, national
traditions and interests and to assist the
accumulation of the spiritual values of the
nation and its welfare. The main strategic
objective of BAS is to ensure and maintain the
highest possible level of science,
interdisciplinarity, international
competitiveness and high national self-confidence
in agreement with the needs of the socio-economic
and spiritual development of the Bulgarian
society and with the European and world trends of
the organization of scientific research.
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• In order to achieve this objective, and following
  a comprehensive analysis of the state of the
  research activities in BAS, the Executive Council
  of BAS established the following Problem Councils
  to carry out BAS programs over the period 2007
  2013
• New materials, nanotechnologies and advanced
  physical technologies
• Information and communication technologies
• Energy sources and energy efficiency
• Bioeconomics, biotechnologies and foods
• Ecology, biodiversity and bioresources
• Medical and biological problems and quality of
  life
• Natural resources, hazards and climate changes
• Space research and technologies
• Security
• Cultural and historical heritage and national
  identity,
• Knowledge based economy and society.

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• The main objectives of the Problem Councils shall
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• Assessment of the state-of-art of the research
  area and analysis of the industrial potential of
  the country in these fields
• Assessment of the perspective development of
  the and preparation of suggestions for the course
  of actions
• On the basis of the main 14 Problem Councils
  actions are provided , concerning with the
  structure of the Academy, assuring research and
  innovation activities in the mentioned fields
• For the successful functioning of the Academy
  in these fields a provision is made for the human
  potential development in BAS, as well as the
  capacity of its research facilities with modern
  research equipment and installations.

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