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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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Sofia University through its Faculty of Economics is a partner in the consortium SHARE ERIC Bulgaria from the National Roadmap for Scientific Infrastructure. Thanks to the funds provided under the infrastructure SHARE ERIC Bulgaria for Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski ”, in 2020 the Faculty of Economics successfully completed the renovation and equipment of a new training facility “SHARE –

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“The world marks the 30th anniversary of the International Day of Older Persons as we reckon with the disproportionate and severe impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought on older persons around the world – not only on their health, but on their rights and well-being.” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guiterres October 1 was designated by the UN General Assembly as

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At a meeting of the General Assembly of BAS, held on November 18, 2019, a decision was made to rename the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge to the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology. The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at BAS (IPS-BAS) can be found at the following e-mail addresses: Official website: www.ips-bas.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/ifs.bas/ Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/institute-of-philosophy-and-sociology-at-bas-b5825375/

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