Balgarianovinite.com The 16th edition of the Sofia Science Festival will open at Sofia Tech Park on Thursday, May 14, the organizers from the Beautiful Science Foundation said. More than 100 researchers, engineers, and science practitioners from 12 countries are expected to take part in the event, participating in 135 sessions organized across five venues. Researchers from 14 institutes of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) will also be featured at the festival, BAS representatives said.
The official opening ceremony is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. and will include an award ceremony for the winners of the Eighth Student Competition in Computational Linguistics, organized by the Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin.
The first day’s programme includes a wide range of highlights. Beginning at 3:00 p.m., visitors will be able to join a hands-on workshop on fossil hunting in sedimentary rocks, led by geologist Michael Sandy. At 4:30 p.m., Dr. Violeta Karailieva from the National Academy of Art and Assoc. Prof. Georgi Avdeev from the Institute of Physical Chemistry at BAS will present a discussion on the relationship between metallurgy and art from antiquity to the digital era. At the same time, Dr. Svetoslav Alexandrov from BAS will speak about the discovery of brown dwarfs and binary star systems from Bulgaria.
The evening program begins at 6:00 p.m., when David Nutt of Imperial College London will present the latest scientific findings on psychoactive substances and their therapeutic applications. From 7:30 p.m., a National Geographic Society documentary exploring the secret life of bees will be screened.
The festival programme also includes events in English, French, and Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation into Bulgarian. For the first time, some sessions will also feature sign-language interpretation. The festival will continue until May 17, when the Bulgarian final of the international FameLab competition will take place. 16th Sofia Science Festival to Kick Off in Sofia 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-05-14 05:39:31 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law