PROJECTS, FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL (ERC)

Visual Culture, Piety and Propaganda: Transfer and Reception of Russian Religious Art in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (16th – early 20th century) – RICONTRANS

Host institution: Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)

Duration: 2020-2024

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Prof. Roumiana Il. Preshlenova, PhD

PROJECTS IN COOPERATION WITH FOREIGN ACADEMIES

Secular and religious life in Medieval Balkans

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

Duration: 2020-2022

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Prof. Liliana Simeonova, Dr. habil. 

Relations between Duklja/Zeta and Bulgaria in the Middle Ages

Partner institution: Department of Humanities, Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts

Duration: 2020-2022

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Prof. Liliana Simeonova, Dr. habil.

Sultan's Documents, 18th-19th centuries (documents kept at the Section for Manuscripts at the Romanian Academy Library and Archives State Agency - Bulgaria)

Partner institution: Section for Manuscripts at the Romanian Academy Library

Duration: 2020-2022

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Assoc. Prof. Rositsa Gradeva, PhD

Dynamique régionale, transformations urbaines dans les Balkans ottomans

Partner institution: Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Romanian Academy

Duration: 2018-2020

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

Religion, state and society for Bulgarians and Croats over the centuries

Partner institution: The Historical Sciences Division of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Duration: 2019-2021

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Prof. Svetlozar Eldarov, Dr. habil.

Between East and West: foreign patterns and national approaches in the socio-political development of Romania and Bulgaria in the 20th Century

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

Duration: 2018-2020

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

Economy of giving. Institutions, social practices of assistance and care in Italy and Bulgaria compared in the long run

Partner institution: Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies – National Research Council (CNR) Naples, Italy

Duration: 2019-2021

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

Serbian (Yugoslav)-Bulgarian relations and the interests of the Great Powers in the Balkans (19th-20th Centuries)

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

Duration: 2020-2022

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

«Préparer son départ». La famille, les testaments et le sentiment de la mort dans les Balkans (XVe–XIXe siècles)

Partner institution: Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Romanian Academy

Duration: 2020-2022

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Assoc. Prof. Lyudmila Mindova, PhD

Les relations ethniques et culturelles dans l’Europe du Sud-est reflétées dans les langues et les littératures de la région

Partner institution: Institute of Southeast European Studies, Romanian Academy

Duration: 2020-2022

Project Manager for Bulgaria: Prof. Lora Taseva, PhD

Bulgarians and Croats in modern Europe. Cultural identities and parallels

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

Duration: 2019-2021

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

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

Vectors of historical development and national identity in the Balkans, joint project of IBSCT-BAS and the Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Duration: 2020–2022

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

The Vocabulary of Constantine of Preslav's Uchitel'noe evangelie ('Didactic Gospel'): Old Bulgarian-Greek and Greek-Old Bulgarian Word Indices

Duration: 2020-2022

Project Manager: Prof. Lora Taseva, PhD

Egyptian Cults in Thrace during the Hellenistic and Roman periods - Diffusion, Extent and Interaction

Duration: 2020-2022

Project Manager: Assist. Prof. Vesela Atanasova, PhD

LABedia: Late Antique Balkans Encyclopedia, 4th century

Duration: 2019-2021

Project Manager: Assoc. Prof. Zlatomira Gerdzhikova, PhD

Website: https://labalkans.org/en/labedia

European influences in the modern urban music culture in the Balkans. Bibliographic research

Duration: 2019-2021

Project Manager: Assist. Prof. Alexandra Milanova, PhD

Contemporary Balkans and the challenges facing Bulgaria

Duration: 2017-2021

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

Website: http://www.balkan-challenges.eu/bg/

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

National program 'Young scientists and Postdoctoral candidates': Postdoctoral project 'Trade Routes in the Balkans, the Black Sea Region and the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Reflected in Italian Sources, 13th to 15th Centuries'

Duration: 2019-

Scientific advisor: Prof. Liliana Simeonova, Dr. habil.

Postdoctoral fellow: Violeta Manolova, PhD

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: 2018-2023

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

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

National Scholarly Program 'Cultural historical heritage, national memory and social development'

Duration: 2018-2021

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

Website: https://kinnpor.uni-sofia.bg/

Establishment and development of a Center of Excellence Nasledstvo.bg

Duration: 2018-2023

Coordinator for the IBSCT-BAS: Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Website: http://www.nasledstvo.bg/

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

Duration: 2018-2023

Coordinator for the IBSCT-BAS: Prof. Valeria Fol, Dr. habil.

https://inframat.bg/en/

PROJECTS FUNDED BY INTERNAL SOURCES

Catalog of translations of medieval texts into Bulgarian (1990 - present days)

Duration: 2020-2021

Project Manager: Prof. Liliana Simeonova, Dr. habil.

Creating the Late Antique World in the Balkans: society, institutions, religion

Duration: 2018-2020

Project Manager: Assoc. Prof. Zlatomira Gerdzhikova, PhD

Sources about the Balkan nations

Duration: 2019-2021

Project Manager: Assoc. Prof. Rositsa Gradeva, PhD

Society, leadership and politics in the Balkans in the Modern Age

Duration: 2020-2022

Project Manager: Prof. Svetlozar Eldarov, Dr. habil.

Balkans and the projects for Regional and European integration from the 19th Century to the present day

Duration: 2020-2022

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

Cultural spaces in the Balkans: dialogues and transformations

Duration: 2020-2022

Project Manager: Prof. Orlin Sabev, Dr. habil.

Mirabilia: times, spaces, myths

Duration: 2020-2022

Project Managers: Prof. Vanya Lozanova-Stancheva, D.A. and Prof. Valeria Fol, Dr. habil.

Sources about the history of Thrace and Thracians

Duration: 2020-2022

Project Manager: Prof. Vanya Lozanova-Stancheva, D.A.

Thrace and Egypt in the Greco-Roman period

Duration: 2020-2022

Project Manager: Assist. Prof. Vessela Atanassova, PhD