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author: Gergana Mancheva

Old Koprivshtitsa house becomes museum of National Revival education

“Read and know, so that you will not be ridiculed and reproached by other tribes and peoples. It has cost me much labour to collect from different books and histories until I accumulated and brought together the history of the Bulgarian kin in this little..

25.06.17 11:35 |

3Dsmart lab undoes obsolete teaching methods

Delcho Delchev is an architect from the Transformers Association. About five years ago together with his colleagues from the Architecture , Civil Engineering and Geodesy University in Sofia he created a Urban Design Laboratory. Its most often..

19.06.17 13:48 |

Magic of Chiprovtsi carpets attracts crowds to Kapana Festival in Plovdiv

Velika Stoeva from the Bulgarian town of Chiprovtsi has been weaving carpets since she was a child. All the women in her family were weavers and the weaving loom has always been present in her home. "It's been a profession for me for 20 years. It..

18.06.17 08:00 |

Antarctica, the frozen continent where dull masks fall apart

Why don’t polar bears eat penguins?  Anybody able to answer this question earns the chance of being selected for the next expedition to Antarctica. In fact, the answer is that polar bears live in the Arctic, and penguins - in Antarctica...

12.06.17 11:40 |

“A summer in a swamp” – the musical that brings the message of bonding with nature to children

The idea for the show “A summer in a swamp” belongs to Margarita Shoselova, music choreographer of the Margaritki (Daisies) opera and ballet studio for children and teenagers, a show staged together with the Stara Zagora opera house. The..

04.06.17 09:10 |

Museum of Education in Gabrovo – the only functioning museum dedicated entirely to education

By a tradition, the whole of May is a month dedicated to “letters” at Bulgarian schools. On the eve of 24 May – day of Bulgarian education and culture and of the Slavic alphabet – young children across the country proudly demonstrated how much..

31.05.17 13:47 |

The Starling student club teaches children not to be afraid of animals

Starling – the songster that is so common to forests in this country – has given its name to a student club of biologists and nature lovers. In their interpretation Starling or SKORETS in Bulgarian is an acronym meaning: Student Club of..

29.05.17 14:20 |

Small Bulgarian village of Seidol has its unusual school

Being an innovator with non-standard ideas is more of an obstacle in this country than an advantage, especially in the rigid system of education. In major urban schools, innovation most often comes from outside, in the form of participation in..

27.05.17 09:35 |

Mountains teach us hard lessons during springtime hiking

Bulgarian mountains may look very tempting for hiking during the weekend in springtime. People who do not often hike imagine the mountain very much like a nearby park with green trees, blossoming grasses and bird songs over our heads. Only the..

21.05.17 09:00 |

Knowledge heroes presented at Sofia Science Festival 7th edition

The 7 th edition of the Sofia Science Festival took place for a first time at its new home – Sofia Tech Park. A total of 65 lectures and discussions were held over the 4 festive days, accompanied by interactive experiments and demonstrations..

15.05.17 15:08 |