On June 7, 2025 (Saturday), from 10:30 AM to 6:00 PM, the Science and Technology Fair will take place at Scientific Complex 2 of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (72 Tsarigradsko Shosse Blvd.).
The event is aimed at students and teachers, university students and professors, researchers, children and their parents — in short, everyone who would like to learn more about the techniques and technologies developed by scientists at the Academy. These developments are significant for advancing micro- and nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, micromachining, biomedicine, energy efficiency, ecology, and cultural heritage preservation, covering topics from deep space exploration and its inhabitants to the analysis of ultrafast processes at the molecular and atomic level.
The Institute of Solid State Physics, with the support of Science Me Up and in collaboration with researchers from the Institute of Astronomy with the National Astronomical Observatory, the Central Laboratory of Solar Energy and New Energy Sources, and the Astronomical Association, invites visitors to spend a day discovering that science can be interesting, fun, and exciting, and that Bulgaria offers opportunities for a successful scientific career.
Visitors will be able to enter the open, modernly equipped laboratories of the Institute of Solid State Physics, as well as the only Demonstration Pavilion in the Balkans featuring an innovative facade glass unit with a circulating water system at the Central Laboratory of Solar Energy and New Energy Sources. They will have the chance to discuss their questions with scientists; attend lectures on advanced technologies and materials, reducing the carbon footprint through “smart” buildings, techniques for tackling plastic pollution, comets, the mysterious life of stars, and more; learn the story of the first scientific discovery in Bulgaria (the photoelectret state of matter), which became part of everyday life through the xerographic process, and the invention of the copper bromide vapor laser; observe the Sun during its peak activity and watch fascinating experiments; and participate in workshops in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering set up in the park of the complex.
The organizers of the Science and Technology Fair aim to stimulate public interest in natural and engineering sciences, provoke young people's curiosity, encourage them to think critically about the future of the world — a future that is impossible without knowledge — and convince them that the profession of a researcher is prestigious. They are also ambitious to make this event a tradition at Scientific Complex 2 of BAS.
