Investment in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The Recovery and Resilience Facility provides EUR 22.2 million to support the innovation capacity of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS).

This investment consists in refurbishing the BAS, measures for the Joint Innovation Centre and a quantum key distribution optical route.

As part of the investment research building (block 12) and a demonstration centre building (block 29a) of the BAS will be refurbished.

Five employment contracts will be signed for the Joint Innovation Centre covering each of the following areas of expertise: 

• commercialisation; intellectual property;
• technology transfer with a focus on green and digital technologies;  
• information technology;
• coordinator of relations with business and representatives of the innovation ecosystem.

An electronic portal for the BAS will be made accessible and online.

Furhermore, the quantum key distribution optical route between the A1 Data Centre Lift and the Institute of Robotics at the Bulgarian Academy of Science (IR-BAS) will be completed.