The best young scientists of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences were awarded at a solemn meeting on the occasion of May 24 - the Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, the Bulgarian alphabet, education and culture, and Slavic literature. The Speaker of the National Assembly Nikola Minchev presented the awards to the winners of Professor Marin Drinov Award for Young Scientists and Ivan Evstratiev Geshov Award for Youngest Scientists.

Assist. Prof. Alexandra Milanova, PhD with the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology received the Professor Marin Drinov Award for Young Scientists for achievements in the field of Cultural and Historical Heritage and National Identity.

Georgi Yuri Dikin, a full-time doctoral student at the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology, received the Ivan Evstratiev Geshov Award for Youngest Scientists for achievements in the same field.

The awards aim to discover and stimulate talented young scholars at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, to enable them to make earlier and successful international scientific contacts, to support their development and growth, as well as to make work in science and especially in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences more attractive for young and talented professionals.