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On 4th December 2023, at 3 p.m., a status-update meeting of the project team with representatives of the government, the academic community and museums with natural history collections was held in the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (NMNHS).

The directors of the two institutes of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Pavel Stoev, ... more

On 15 November 2023, from 10 a.m. to 2.30 p.m., in the "Prof. Marin Drinov" hall at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, a seminar was held on the topic "Status and prospects in the digitization of biological collections at the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research and the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ". < ... more

First citation in a scientific article of cataloged records of Origanum vulgare and Artemisia absinthium from the Boris Achtartov Herbarium at the National Natural History Museum in Sofia. 

In the publication "Antioxidant Capacity of Herzegovinian Wildflowers Evaluated by UV–VIS and Cyclic Voltammetry Analysis":

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As a result of the work on the first stage of the project "Upgrading the Scientific Infrastructure "Distributed System of Scientific Collections - Bulgaria (DiSSCo-BG)", the laboratory at the Department of "Aquatic Ecosystems" in the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research - BAS was renovated. In the Hydrobiological laboratory are worked up and will be stored part of the spirit collect ... more

On April 12, 2022 the Director of the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (IBER), Assoc. Prof. Anna Ganeva, together with the head of the Bulgarian consortium DiSSCo-BG, Prof. Boyko Georgiev and Assoc. Prof. Teodor Denchev officially opened the new specialized mycological laboratory at the Institute.

The specialized mycological laboratory was built in 2021-2022 for the mycolo ... more

On 2nd August 2021, the low-temperature camera in the Herbarium of the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, BAS was officially put into operation, thanks to financial support from the National Roadmap for Scientific Infrastructures. The herbarium contains about 200,000 specimens and is the richest and most representative scientific collection of the flora of Bulgaria and Southeast ... more

On May 11, 2021, a scientific webinar "Bulgaria and innovations in the аreas of digital cultural and scientific heritage" was held, organized by the e-infrastructures KLADA-BG, UNITE and the DISTILL project. The webinar brought togethe ... more

With a new joint project, the National Museum of Natural History and the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, will digitalize one of the largest collections of biological and geological diversity in Bulgaria, stored in the scientific repositories of the two institutes. The first official online meeting conducted on January 12th 2021 has marked t ... more