The Forum INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT has been held annually since 2010. The event is based on the following goals:
- To give an opportunity for wide discussion of main problems in the system of education and science in Bulgaria.
- To bring together teachers from different universities and teachers-practitioners from different towns and villages in the country; to find common ground between theory and practice.
- To demonstrate new applications of modern technologies in the learning process.
- To unite the efforts of different institutions for a new vision of the classroom in the Bulgarian school.
- To establish the annual holding of an educational forum in the city of Burgas with the broad support of the institutions engaged in the educational system in our country.
This year the conference was attended by representatives of the team under project KP 06-M35/3 from 18.12.2019 entitled: “Research of contemporary educational programs of cultural institutions in Bulgaria”, funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science. On 20.08.2020 in Hall A “Petya Dubarova”, as part of the thematic area “Pedagogy and Psychology”, Chief Assistant Professor Sonya Spasova, PhD presented a paper on “Current educational initiatives of museums and libraries in Bulgaria: a new study”.