Twenty women who have been trained for 5 days received their certificates today 14th February. The special training for women politicians was organised by the Bulgarian School of Politics “Dimitry Panitza”. The traineeship is part of the project “More Women in Politics in 2014” conducted by the “Balkan Assist”. At the ceremony representatives of eleven […]

Accent during the last day of the third course of the National Program was the panel “Long-term Strategies for Bulgaria”. The topic was judicial reform. Special guests were Judge Kalin Kalpakchiev, who is a member of the Supreme Judicial Council, Sava Petrov from the Prosecutor’s Association and Hristo Ivanov, program director at the Bulgarian Institute […]

Special guest-speaker in our program today was Lindsay Saltsgiver, director of “Cedar” foundation for Bulgaria. Lindsay is an American, who has been living in Bulgaria for 10 years now. She took part in the rubric “30 minutes in the company of…” Lindsay talked about her motivation to work with children. She said that she is […]

Focus during the third day of the program was charity and spreading the culture of philanthropy. Special guest was Dr. Frederick Mulder, founder of “The Funding Network” – the first open, public giving circle in the UK, active in seven countries. He is an art dealer and a philanthropist. Mr. Mulder generally supports social and […]

The main accents during the second day of the program were elections and voting practices. The executive director of “Transparency International” Mr. Kalin Slavov presented the results of their last monitoring that the organization made during the last elections. He also presented the recommendations made by the NGO sector towards the changes in the Election […]

The third course of the National Program “Governing Skills” dedicated to the national priorities and national decisions started today at RIU Hotel Pravetz. It will last until 2 February. The program began with the presentations from the participants about the better connection of the education system with the employment market. The participants were divided in […]

That was among the main conclusions from the round table for presenting the results from the researches on media coverage of elections ‘2013, which the Bulgarian School of Politics “Dimitry Panitza” and the Centre for Liberal Strategies did. The event took place on 20 January 2014 in Sofia. Thirty journalists and representatives of different organizations […]

Thirty nine participants in the National Program of the Bulgarian School of Politics “Dimitry Panitza”, among them members of Parliament, mayors, municipal councilors, representatives of NGOs and businesses, etc. received their diplomas at a special Graduation Ceremony, which was held on 14 December at the American Corner of the Sofia City Library. The diplomas were […]

The panel “Bulgaria’s Long-term strategies” was the accent during the last day of the course in the National Program. The topic was education and labour market.  Special guests were the Chair of the Bulgarian Industrial Association – Mr. Bozhidar Danev, the Chair of the Chancellor’s Council for Higher Education in Bulgaria – Prof. Dr. Vanyo […]

The budget as a political instrument or how the political parties realize their policies through the prism of municipality budgets is what the participants discussed during the National Program in the fourth day of the course, dedicated to the local self-government. The structure and the principals of the council budget and financial policies were presented […]