PROJECTS IN COOPERATION WITH FOREIGN ACADEMIES

Romania and Bulgaria in the Age of Totalitarianism(s)

Partner institution: National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, Romanian Academy

Duration: 2024-2026

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Serbo/Yugoslav - Bulgarian relations and the Great Powers in the 19th and 20th centuries

Partner institution: Balkanology Institute, Serbian Academy of Science and Arts

Duration: 2024-2026

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Italy, Bulgaria and the Balkans – mutual contacts and influences from the early modern era to the First World War

Partner institution: Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean (ISMed) – National Research Council (CNR) Naples, Italy

Duration: 2023-2025

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Secular and religious life in Medieval Balkans (4th – 16th c.)

Partner institution: Institute of Byzantine Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Duration: 2023-2025

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Assoc. Prof. Vladislav Ivanov, PhD

Continuity, Unity, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Southeastern Europe (Medieval and Modern Times)

Partner institution: Institute of Southeast European Studies, Romanian Academy

Duration: 2023-2025

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Prof. Lora Taseva, PhD

Power, society and trade in the Balkan cities during the Ottoman period

Partner institution: Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Romanian Academy

Duration: 2022-2025

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Prof. Raia Zaimova, Dr. habil.

In the Spirit of Modernization: State and Society in Southeast Europe (19th-20th centuries)

Partner institution: Institute for South-East European Studies (ISEES), Romanian Academy

Duration: 2022-2025

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Society, state and church of Bulgarians and Croats over the centuries

Partner: Department of Historical Sciences at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Deadline: 2022-2025

Project manager for Bulgaria: Assoc. Prof. Irina Ognyanova, PhD

Bulgarian and Croatian cultural routes in Southeast Europe. Intersections and interactions

Partner institution: Institute for the History of Croatian Literature, Theatrе and Music, HAZU

Duration: 2022-2025

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Assoc. Prof. Antoaneta Balcheva, PhD

PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE BULGARIAN SCIENCE FUND, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

The Balkans and global challenges after 24 February 2022

Duration: 2022-2025

Project Manager: Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Growing but not getting old: semantic and 3D technologies for the history of streets and buildings in Sofia

Duration: 2024-2027

Project Manager: Assist. Prof. Ivailo Nachen, PhD

https://historicalsofia.eu/en/ and Facebook page

Corpus Animalium Thracicorum (CAT): A digital corpus of the Thracian land’s fauna (1000 BC - AD 500)

Duration: 2024-2026

Project Manager: Asst. Prof. Eli Filipova, PhD

Cultural diplomacy in the Balkans in the 20th and 21st centuries: Achievements, challenges, and the way forward

Duration: 2023-2026

Project Manager: Assist. Prof. Alexandra Milanova, PhD

Ages in history – Integration of genetic methods in historical research

Duration: 2023-2025

Project Manager: Todor Chobanov, PhD

Going Through the War: The Medieval Military Experience in the Balkans and Its Social Implications

Duration: 2022-2024

Project Manager: Assist. Prof. Mario Filipov, PhD

https://balkanwarfare.org/en/

PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE BULGARIAN SCIENCE FUND, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE UNDER THE "RILA" PROGRAM FOR BILATERAL COOPERATION BULGARIA – FRANCE

Populism and migrations: An interdisciplinary study of the problem in Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries

Partner institution: Sorbonne Nouvelle University – Paris 3

Duration: 2024-2026

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Assist. Prof. Alexandra Milanova, PhD

PROJECTS AND NATIONAL PROGRAMS FUNDED BY THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

National Science Program "Cutting-edge Research and People for the Development of European Science 2024" (VIHREN–2024)

Project: Balkan Consuls: Extraterritorial Agents and the Making of the Modern State in Southeast Europe

Duration:  2025–2030

Project Manager:  Assoc. Prof. Simeon Simeonov, PhD

National Scientific Program “Petar Beron i NIE” (P. Beron)

Project: The Great Game

Duration: 2023-2025

Scholarly Advisor: Prof. Yura Konstantinova, Dr. habil.

Postdoctoral fellow: Nadezhda Vasileva, PhD

National Scholarly Programme "Development and Promotion of Bulgarian Studies Abroad"

Duration: 2022-2025

Coordinator for the IBSCT-BAS: Prof. Roumiana Il. Preshlenova, PhD

https://bulgaristica.bas.bg/

National Interdisciplinary Research E-Infrastructure for Resources and Technologies for the Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage, integrated within the European Infrastructures CLARIN-ERIC and DARIAH (CLADA-BG)

Duration: 2018-2028

Coordinator for the IBSCT-BAS: Assoc. Prof. Yura Konstantinova, Dr. habil.

Website: https://clada-bg.eu/en/

INFRAMAT Distributed infrastructure of centers for synthesis and characterization of new materials and conservation of archeological and ethnographic artefacts

Duration: 2018-2024

Coordinator for the IBSCT-BAS: Prof. Roumiana Il. Preshlenova, PhD

https://inframat.bg/en/

PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION NextGenerationEU
Investment C2.I2 "Increasing of the Innovation Capacity of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in the Field of Green and Digital Technologies"
Procedure BG-RRP-2.015 "Strengthening Research Potential through the Attraction and Retention of Talented Researchers"

Project: Digitizing the Schism: establishing a thematic virtual fund and interactive corner with augmented reality (BG-RRP-2.015-0011)

Duration: 2024-2026

Scholarly Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Zlatomira Gerdzhikova, PhD

Postdoctoral researcher: Kristiyan Kovachev, PhD

Project: Digital historical paths in Bulgaria and Greece (BG-RRP-2.015-0008-C01)

Duration: 2024-2026

Scholarly Advisor: Prof. Yura Konstantinova, Dr. habil.

Postdoctoral researcher: Stamatia Fotiadou, PhD

Project: Rediscovery, Preservation, and Promotion of Cultural and Historical Heritage in Eastern Macedonia (BG-RRP-2.015-0010-C01)

Duration: 2024-2026

Scholarly Advisor: Prof. Yura Konstantinova, Dr. habil.

Postdoctoral researcher: Angel Zlatkov, PhD

PROJECTS FUNDED BY INTERNAL SOURCES

Tradition and Modernity: Balkan and European Dialogues

Duration: 2025-2027

Project Manager: Prof. Raia Zaimova, Dr. habil., Asst. Prof. Elmira Vasileva, PhD

Leadership in the Balkans – Personalities, Policies, Strategies

Duration: 2025-2027

Project Manager: Prof. Bisser Petrov, Dr. habil.

Sources on the Balkan Peoples: Publications, Manipulations, Adaptations

Duration: 2025-2027 

Project Manager: Prof. Yura Konstantinova, Dr. habil.

Conversations about literature and the peninsula - II

Duration: 2025-2027

Project Manager: Assoc. Prof. Lyudmila Mindova, PhD

Socializing the cultural heritage of the Balkans - II

Duration: 2025-2027

Project Manager: Prof. Roumiana Il. Preshlenova, PhD

Lecture series Every Second Tuesday - II

Duration: 2024-2027

Project Manager: Assist. Prof. Alexandra Milanova 

Thrace and the thracians: А perspective of sources

Duration: 2023-2025

Project Managers: Assoc. Prof. Ivo Topalilov, PhD

Thrace and Egypt in the Greco-Roman World

Duration: 2023-2025

Project Manager: Assist. Prof. Vessela Atanassova, PhD

https://thraceandegypt.com

The Medieval Balkans: Sources and Interpretations

Duration: 2023-2025

Project Manager: Prof. Lora Taseva, PhD

Ethnic, religious and minority problems in the Balkans, 20th-21st centuries

Duration: 2022-2025

Project Manager: Prof. Nadya Boyadzhieva, LL.D.