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The Foundation is looking for project proposals in the fields of biotechnologies, artificial intelligence, and smart technologies by researchers, scientists, and engineers, aged 16–40 years, with applied science backgrounds in relevant fields.

Our final selection for this year’s Leadership Education in America Program includes fifteen outstanding individuals from a variety of professional backgrounds. Congratulations to the first LEAP class!

Members of the diplomatic corps in Bulgaria, the America for Bulgaria Foundation team, and civil society organizations and media came together on Thursday, February 2, to discuss the importance of civil society in a democracy.

ABF gifted Muzeiko to Bulgaria’s children by entrusting it to the care of Sofia Municipality. Muzeiko will now play a more direct role in Bulgarian education.

150,000 levs is available to fund youth educational projects and activities at the Bishop’s Basilica of Philippopolis in this joint initiative by the America for Bulgaria Foundation and the Friends of the Basilica – Plovdiv Foundation.

The candidates were shortlisted out of a record 410 applications. LEAP is designed and funded by ABF in partnership with leading US education provider Babson College.

Lora Krumova and Maria Yotova’s documentary To Outlive the System is a first-person account of the four years Tsvetana Dzhermanova spent in Bulgaria’s Belene and Bosna communist-era labor camps without a conviction or a trial. Her crime? Speaking up against injustice.

“Entrepreneurial leadership is a mindset that focuses organizations on turning problems into opportunities that create economic and social value.” According to Babson, “entrepreneurial leadership goes hand in hand with a relentless optimism about the world. Entrepreneurial leaders are not just risk managers; they are experts at navigating uncertainty. They have a positive outlook about the future, as they are always trying to improve things.”

This America for Bulgaria Foundation–designed and –funded program, in partnership with Babson College, will enable early- to mid-career Bulgarian professionals from the public, private, and NGO sectors to spend three weeks in the United States honing their leadership skills.