Advanced Academia Project

This project partakes in the building of an educated society in Bulgaria by stimulating excellent scholarship at the highest international level. It strives to respond to the rising demand for creating a propitious space for free research by talented scholars in Bulgaria and to the increasing awareness that high-quality academic work is a prerequisite for building a knowledge-based public sphere. The project will provide a total of 24 fellowships to young and established Bulgarian scholars between 0ctober 2009 and September 2012. Through this fellowship programme CAS will ensure possibilities for conducting independent research in an international, inter-disciplinary environment, without restrictions in the selected areas of study; an approach which we believe will boost the excellence of local academic scholarship and its visibility on a national and international scale.

The project is funded by the America for Bulgaria Foundation (ABF), which assists in the development and growth of a vibrant private sector for the benefit of a free and democratic Bulgaria. Founded in 2008 the ABF is a successor to the Bulgarian American Enterprise Fund, an investment fund created by the U.S. government acting through the U.S. Agency for International Development. The grants provided by ABF will build on the legacy of goodwill and friendship that exists between the American people and the citizens of Bulgaria.