On 22 June 2026, the international forum “Ageing and Demand for Care in Central and Eastern Europe: Determinants, Challenges, and Possible Responses over the Next Ten Years” was held in Rome. The event was organised by University of Rome Tor Vergata with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The forum brought together representatives of
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In Bulgaria, work has begun on collecting empirical data for the 10th wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (“50+ in Europe”). This study is part of the SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project, which has been conducted every two years since 2004 in 28 countries. Interviewers from Global Metrics will contact
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The Bulgarian country team of SHARE ERIC – Bulgaria wishes you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year 2024! Peace, health and prosperity! Ekaterina Markova and Gabriela Yordanova
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It is with great pleasure and gratitude that we accept the review of Associate Professor Petya Ilieva-Trichkova from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in the journal Balkanistic Forum, issue 2 of 2023, indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. „Overall, How are we ageing in Bulgaria?… undoubtedly fulfils its aim to “attract the
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The main focus of this article by Gabriela Yordanova and Ekaterina Markova is to shed light on the challenges to the work-life balance (WLB) caused by school closures due to lockdowns in Bulgaria. Both paid and unpaid jobs occur intensively in the family environment due to anti-epidemic measures of physical distancing. School closures introduce a novel element of unpaid work:
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On November 11 and 12, 2021, we successfully conducted a specialized webinar for advanced audience on the topic: Analysis of data from SHARE Corona through logistic probability models. The lecturer and author of the seminar program Assoc. Prof. Ekaterina Tosheva (Department of Statistics and Econometrics, UNWE and Institute for Educational Research) introduced the participants to the possibilities of using logistic
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During the summer semester of the academic year 2020/21, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Boryana Bogdanova conducted an elective course integrated into the curriculum of several master’s programs offered by the Faculty of Economics at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski ”. During the course, students had the opportunity to work on a case study based on SHARE wave 7 data. The basis
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Research Infrastructure SHARE ERIC Bulgaria traditionally conducts specialized webinars, targeted at students, PhD students and scientists, for research based on Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The main goal of this unique academic “SHARE ERIC Bulgaria” is to increase the capacity to work with panel data, to motivate scholars, students and PhD students to use SHARE in
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The Covid-19 pandemic is causing an unprecedented global crisis, the effects of which are affecting all spheres of individual and social life. Multidisciplinary, comparative studies on effects of the pandemic deserve special attention, at least because of significant variations in spread of the infection, institutional response and reactions of the population in different countries. The need for high-quality quantitative data
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The fieldwork of data collection of SHARE Covid-2 module from the 9th wave of SHARE begins in 28 EU Member States and Israel! The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IPS-BAS) coordinates the implementation of the study “50+ in Europe” in Bulgaria in cooperation with the consortium of European research infrastructure “SHARE-ERIC”. In Bulgaria, the
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