126 participants participated online in a research funding webinar that Medical University-Sofia hosted on June 26, 2024. The event was organized within the international project Boosting Ingenium for Excellence (BI4E) and attracted guests from the initiative’s partner universities from Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Romania, France and Sweden and, of course, Bulgaria.
The participants – doctoral students and researchers who are interested in finding funding for their scientific developments and projects, were welcomed by the vice-rector of MU-Sofia for international activities and project funding, Prof. Tsvetalina Tankova. She opened the discussion by emphasizing the importance of the various funding programs and their knowledge for the development of science in academic institutions.
Practical guidelines for seeking funding, sources of information, commercialization of innovations, stages and terms of funding, priority areas and many other useful information were presented by the speakers:
Prof. Boyan Zhekov, coordinator at the National Contact Unit under the Horizon Europe program, зиеяехшеа
Ms Gabriela Chuprenska, coordinator for Bulgaria of the “Marie Sklodovska-Curie” program,
Ms Teodora Sotirova from the Center for Innovation at the BAS,
Ms Christine Brogan from the University of Munster (Ireland).
See the program HERE
