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Bulgaria Academy of Sciences Discharges Over 250 Employees
Society | August 10, 2008, Sunday // 00:00
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Nikola Sabotinov, Chair of BAS: BAS needs a BGN 218 M budget for salaries and research Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)
Over 250 individuals have been already discharged from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), according to the requirement for a 12% budget reduction included in the 2008 Budget Law.
The news was announced by the BAS Director, Academician Nikola Sabotinov.
Sabotinov further explained that the dismissals did not affect any of the scientists at the BAS, according to the agreement reached between the BAS leadership and Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev and Bulgarian Education Minister Daniel Vulchev.
Around 7,600 scientists, administrative and supporting personnel continue to be employed at different Institutes of the BAS, according to Sabotinov, who further added that the BAS has already sent a letter to the Education Minister asking for the increase of the Academy's budget and of the scientists' salaries.
The BAS demands that the minimum salary for the BAS scientists becomes BGN 600 per month starting in the year 2009, compared to the current BGN 420.
According to Sabotinov, in order to achieve such raise, the BAS needs a budget of BGN 218 M. In 2008 the State subsidy for the BAS is BGN 83 M with BGN 10 M added for new equipments and apparatus and another BGN 30 M of the BAS own revenues coming from research.
The letter also requests an additional BGN 15 M for the completion of the first two to three buildings of the projected "young scientists' village.
Another BGN 2 M per year is needed for the lifetime compensation of the BAS Academicians and the so-called "Member-Correspondents." Currently BAS counts 52 Academicians and 85 "Members-Correspondents'" however, according to Sabotinov only those who were not part of the BAS regular staff would receive the lifetime compensation.
Those receiving the compensation would be individuals who were going to work on strategic projects of primary importance for Bulgaria.
BAS further requests another BGN 5 M from the State for the reconstruction of the Ethnographic museum in downtown Sofia.
The news was announced by the BAS Director, Academician Nikola Sabotinov.
Sabotinov further explained that the dismissals did not affect any of the scientists at the BAS, according to the agreement reached between the BAS leadership and Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev and Bulgarian Education Minister Daniel Vulchev.
Around 7,600 scientists, administrative and supporting personnel continue to be employed at different Institutes of the BAS, according to Sabotinov, who further added that the BAS has already sent a letter to the Education Minister asking for the increase of the Academy's budget and of the scientists' salaries.
The BAS demands that the minimum salary for the BAS scientists becomes BGN 600 per month starting in the year 2009, compared to the current BGN 420.
According to Sabotinov, in order to achieve such raise, the BAS needs a budget of BGN 218 M. In 2008 the State subsidy for the BAS is BGN 83 M with BGN 10 M added for new equipments and apparatus and another BGN 30 M of the BAS own revenues coming from research.
The letter also requests an additional BGN 15 M for the completion of the first two to three buildings of the projected "young scientists' village.
Another BGN 2 M per year is needed for the lifetime compensation of the BAS Academicians and the so-called "Member-Correspondents." Currently BAS counts 52 Academicians and 85 "Members-Correspondents'" however, according to Sabotinov only those who were not part of the BAS regular staff would receive the lifetime compensation.
Those receiving the compensation would be individuals who were going to work on strategic projects of primary importance for Bulgaria.
BAS further requests another BGN 5 M from the State for the reconstruction of the Ethnographic museum in downtown Sofia.
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