• 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM |  Pre-conference Event: Knowhow Communities for Accelerating RTI Transfer in the Danube Region
  Location: Room 315

10:00 AM – 10:20 AM | Welcome and Opening Session on project management

10:20 AM – 10:45 AM | Piloting “Up-to-date” – Presentation of Implementation Processes and Results

Montenegro – IEC Tehnopolis, Anđela Nikčević

Bosnia and Herzegovina – Foundation for Innovation and Technology Development (INTERA Technology Park), Mateja Arapović

Bulgaria – ARC Fund, assoc. prof. Daniela Georgieva

Hungary – University of Pécs, Dr Tamas Juhasz

Ukraine – Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Olena Fesenko

Slovenia – National Institute of Chemistry, Kristijan Radikovič]

10:45 AM – 11:30 AM | Internal Workshop – Generation of New Project Proposals

Umbrella workshop led by ByFor (Bavaria)
Moderated by TGLs

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Coffee Break

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Plenary presentation of results and open discussion

Moderated by IEC Tehnopolis and CCIS

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM | Lunch

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM | Communication Management and Visibility Actions for Knowhow Communities

Planning and Delivery- session
Moderated by INTERA TB and CCIS

• 5:00 - 6.30 PM  | Welcome address by Assoc. Prof. Atanas Georgiev, Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University. Museum Tour and Cocktail
  Location: Regional History Museum of Sofia

• 9:00 AM | Coffee
  Location: Lobby

• 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Welcome Address
  Location: Auditorium Nikola Popov (420)
  Speakers:
  Assoc. Prof. Atanas Georgiev - Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University  
  Prof. George Angelov, Deputy Minister of Innovation and Growth
  Assoc. Prof. Todor Yalamov  – Vice Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University   
  Assoc. Prof. Marina Stefanova  – Vice-Dean for Sustainability, Empowerment and Engagement, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University
  Marc Dubois – Co-founder, Fragmentin (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  
  

• 10:00 AM | Unveiling of the G80 Art Installation
  This interactive opening session introduces G80, a digital art installation by the Swiss collective Fragmentin (Lausanne, Switzerland). Inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s visionary concept of the “World Game”, the installation explores global resource distribution through simulation and ethical decision-making.  
  Location: Level 4.5
  Speakers:
  Marc Dubois – Co-founder, Fragmentin (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  
  
  

• 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Interactive Session: Create Your Future
  After a short presentation on the history and ethical implications of global simulation models, participants will engage in a hands-on exercise based on the G80 artwork. Working in small teams, they will recreate their own web-based versions of G80 by redefining the variables from the original work and assigning a meaningful hyperlink to each concept—transforming abstract ethical ideas into dynamic, interactive knowledge systems.
  Location: Room 308

Chair:
Marc Dubois – Co-founder, Fragmentin (Lausanne, Switzerland)  

• 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM |  From Real Options to Real Impact: Innovation, Housing, and Higher Education in a Changing World
  Location: Auditorium Nikola Popov (420)
  Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Todor Yalamov, Sofia University

Prof. Stanley Gyoshev, University of Exeter, UK: Valuing Flexibility: Using Real Options to Quantify Economic and Societal Scenarios
Dr. Sadhna Shukla, India: Significance of generative AI in the technological landscape for consumers
DSc. Aleksandar Vasilev, Senior Research Fellow, University of Lincoln, UK: A Real-Business-Cycle Setup with Housing: Lessons for Bulgaria (1999-2024)
Prof. Izzudin Busnaina, University of Benghazi, Libya: Transforming Higher Education Futures in MENA countries: Innovation, Sustainability and Global Positioning

• 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM |  Knowhow Communities for Accelerating RTI Transfer in the Danube Region
  Location: Children's science center "Muzeiko" and Sofia Tech Park

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Review of Tools Workshop

Moderated by CCIS

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Coffee Break

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM | Continuation of Workshop

Presentation of results, wrap-up of deliverable

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch break at Muzeiko

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Sofia Tech Park Guided tour 

• 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM| Lunch Break 4th floor at FEBA

• 1:15 PM – 3:30 PM | ConsuWAIS Panel on AI and e-commerce

Location: Room 420 

Chair: Prof. Svetlana Bialkova, Principal investigator, ConsuWAIS Vihren project, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University:  Consumers wanted AI support

Dr. Borislava Toleva, R3 researcher, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University: How to TAME the Tourism AI Multiverse (TAIM)?

Dr. Nikolay Georgiev, R3 researcher, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University: Engineering the User: A note on the Potential for AI-Powered Mass-Scale Psychological Manipulation

• 1:15 PM – 5:30 PM | Theorizing the managerial practice: doctoral ambition to contribute to the theory

Location: Room 315
Moderator:  Assistant Professor Irena Mladenova,  Faculty of Economic and Business Administration, Sofia  University

Dobril Radoslavov, Ministry of Defence, Bulgaria: Ecosystem Transformation Strategies: The Case of the Open-Source Intelligence, Media Monitoring, Semantic Search, and Artificial Intelligence (OMSAI) Cluster
Attila Yensen, Senior Executive Advisor, Makro ČR, Czech Republic: How managers prepare for transition from functional to general management positions?
Kalin Yonov, CEO, Loulis Mel, Bulgaria: Value reconstruction in upstream businesses
Gergana Manolova, Director International Cooperation and Business Relations, M-Gas, Bulgaria: How companies in Bulgaria perceive and implement diversity, equality, and inclusion policies
Sui Yang, doctoral student at the faculty of Economics and  Business Administration, Sofia University: Digital Literacy and Managerial Practice among Female Entrepreneurs: A Conceptual Framework

• 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Coffee break

• 4:15 PM – 6:00 PM | Systematic inventive thinking
  Apostol Mushmov, Director Sustainability, Faculty of Economics
  Location 215

• 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Economic costs of violence against women (in Bulgarian)
  Location The Egg at the University Rectorate
  Moderator: проф. Албена Вуцова 

Панелисти: 

гл.ас. д-р Емил Митов , Стопански факултет, Софийски университет
гл.ас. д-р Мартина Арабаджиева, Стопански факултет, Софийски университет
доц. д-р Тодор Ялъмов, зам. декан Стопански факултет, Софийски университет
д-р Радостина Ангелова, Управляващ директор, Глобал Метрикс

• 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Reception at Aula Magna
  Location University Rectorate 

• 7:30 PM | Concert
  Location: Aula Magna (University Rectorate) 

• 9:00 – 10:15 AM | Presentations in Bulgarian  
  Location: 315
  Доц. д-р Банчо Банов, катедра „Финанси и счетоводство“, Стопански факултет на СУ: Защо Адам Смит счита, че държавните разходи трябва да са не повече от 10% от БВП, а съвременните икономисти и бюджети харчат между 40 и 50 % от БВП?
  КристинаСтоянова: Постиндустриалното общество - от теория към  реализация

• 9:00 AM – 11:30 PM | Innovation and European project funding
  Location: Auditorium Nikola Popov (420)
  Moderator: Chief Assist. Prof. Kiril Velichkov
  Speakers:
  Anna Kyosova, postdoc researcher, Neuchatel University, Switzerland: Open innovation and EU and Swiss project funding 

• 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM | Coffee Break
  
  

• 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM | Next-Gen Materials in Action: Unlocking SME Innovation Across the Danube Region

Location: Room 315
Chair: Prof. Teodora Georgieva
Speakers:
Nadezda Fachikova: The SUMMIT project  

Prof. Iliana Ivanova, PhD, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohrdiski”

Barbara Giehmann, Bayern Innovative Society for Innovation and Knowledge Transfer, Germany

Anđela Nikčević, Željko Lučić, Đorđije Malović, Jasna Vućić, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre (IEC) Tehnopolis, Montenegro

Svetla Markova, PhD Student, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohrdiski”

Viktor Bagashev, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohrdiski”
Michaela Dineva, Senior Analyst, Innovation and Business Support, ARC Fund SustainX: Advancing Regional Innovation through Smart Specialisation and Systemic Transformation

• 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch break
  
  

• 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Digitalization of SMEs
  Location: Room 315
  Chair: Prof  Desislava Yordanova, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University
  Speakers:
  Prof Zhelyu Vladimirov, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University (research with Mladenova, I. and Harizanova, O.): SMEs Digital Transformation – The Significance of Manager and firm Characteristics
  Assoc prof Boryana Pelova, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University
  Chief Assistant Professor Irena Mladenova, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University:  Digital transformation and organizational changes in small and medium-sized enterprises: what extant research shows
  Prof  Desislava Yordanova (research with Pergelova, A .) Family Business Succession and Digital Transformation: A Systematic Literature Review
  
  

• 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM |  2030 SDG Game

Location: Auditorium Nikola Popov (420)
The 2030 SDGs Game is a multiplayer, in-person, card-based game that simulates taking the “real world” into the year 2030. The game was developed in 2016 by the Japanese organization Imacocollabo and has already been played by more than 350,000 people from all over the world.
Facilitators:
Boyan Zahariev -  ESG Lab Project Manager
Assoc. Prof. Marina Stefanova  – Vice-Dean for Sustainability, Empowerment and Engagement, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University
 

•  8:15 AM – 4:00 PM |  IFA Bulgaria Branch Conference 

 Location:  Aula, Rectorate, Sofia University 

      8:15 AM – 9:00 AM | Participant registration

9:00 AM – 9:10 AM | Opening of the conference

     Speakers: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atanas Georgiev (Dean, Faculty of Economics, Sofia University)

  Valentin Savov (Chairman, IFA Bulgaria)
9:10 AM – 9:45 AM | Upcoming changes to the Regulation on determining market prices

    Lecturer: Desislava Kaludova (NRA)

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Transfer Pricing Beyond Compliance: Managing Global Risk in a Fragmented Regulatory Environment

    Editor: Giammarco Cottani

    Moderators: Alexander Stefanov, Ivan Alexander Manev

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | Coffee break
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM | Overview of current international case law on transfer pricing

    Editor: Raffaele Petruzzi

11:45 AM – 12:30 PM | Amount B: A new tool in transfer pricing

    Speaker: Jacques Malherbe

    Moderators: Svetlana Yordanova, Valentin Savov

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch break
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM | Current issues of transfer pricing for large taxpayers in Bulgaria

    Frequently identified risk areas and opportunities for preventing disputes with the tax administration

    Lecturer: Ivan Neychev

2:45 PM – 3:45 PM | Preliminary Pricing Agreements in Romania and Moldova

    Lecturer: Ciprian Gavriliu

    Moderators: Lilia Andonova, Atanas Mihaylov

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM | Closing of the conference

    Speakers: Valentin Savov, Savina Mihaylova

• 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM | Welcome Coffee

• 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Cross-border Regulatory Coordination
  Location: Auditorium Nikola Popov (420)
  Keynote: Thorsten Beck  Director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance and Professor of Financial Stability at the European University Institute.
  Moderator: Prof. Deyan Radev, Professor of FinTech, Banking, and Systemic Risk at Sofia University and EUI Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Instiute
  
  

• 10:45 AM –  11:00 AM | Coffee Break
  Location: Lobby

• 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Finance, Policy, and Climate: Resilience and Innovation under Pressure  
  Location: Auditorium Nikola Popov (420)
  Moderator: Iliya Lingorski, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
  Speakers:
  Chief Assist. Kiril Velichkov IP -based finance  and the innovations in Europe
  Assistant prof. Mohamed Elrefadi, University of Benghazi, Monetary Policy Effectiveness under Fiscal Dominance in Libya

• 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch 

• 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM | The Challenges to Industry and Innovation
  Location: Room 420
  Moderator: prof. Albena Vutsova
  Participants:
  Prof. Pedro de Faria, Chair, Department of Innovation Management and Strategy, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Groningen, Netherlands
  Assistant Professor Jitse Duijsters, Department of Innovation Management and Strategy, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Groningen, Netherlands

• 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM |
  Location: Room 401
  Zornitsa Stefanova, PhD, Human Sustainability through Inner Transformation: Insights from the “Invisible Women” Study
  Lingling Ma, postdoc researcher, Sofia University, Mapping organizational data management patterns
   

• 3:15 PM - 3:30 | Coffee break
  
  
  

• 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | The New EU Competitiveness Compass, Bulgarian Policy on State Participation in Public Enterprises and Innovation Potential”
  Location: Room 401
  Moderator:
  Assoc. Prof. Savina Mihailova-Goleminova is a lecturer in financial and tax law at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
  Participants:
  Liubov Kirilova, Business Development Manager at 10n Pay 
  Plamen Ivanov, PhD Student, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.
  
  

•  5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Reception
  Location: 4th Floor

•  6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Macroeconomic Modelling: Labour Market, Demographic Challenges and Growth
  Location: Room 520
  Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Ralitsa Simeonova-Ganeva, PhD
  Joint panel of the Department of Economics and the Department of Statistics and Econometrics
  
  6:00 PM - 6:20 PM | A derivative free method for function minimization with application in Economics: Calibrating McCall’s job search model to observed data from Bulgaria
  Chief Assist. Prof. Ilia Atanasov, Department of Economics, FEBA
  Prof. Stefan Petranov, Department of Economics, FEBA
  Assoc. Prof. Alexander Mihailov, University of Reading
  6:20 PM - 6:30 PM | Q&A
  6:30 PM - 6:50 PM | Labour Market Participation: Parental Leave in Bulgaria and the Specifics of Mothers’ Return to Employment
  Assoc. Prof. Elitsa Dimitrova, Institute for Population and Human Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  6:50 PM - 7:00 PM | Q&A
  7:00 PM - 7:20 PM | Macroeconomic implications of demographic changes in Bulgaria
  Ventsislav Ivanov, Bulgarian National Bank
  Desislava Tsvetkova, Bulgarian National Bank
  Assoc. Prof. Andrey Vassilev, Department of Statistics and Econometrics, FEBA
  7:20 PM - 7:30 PM | Q&A
  7:30 PM - 7:50 PM | Model and web application for simulating the macroeconomic effects of demographic change
  Assoc. Prof. Andrey Vassilev, Department of Statistics and Econometrics, FEBA
  Assoc. Prof. Kaloyan Ganev, Department of Statistics and Econometrics, FEBA
  Assoc. Prof. Ralitsa Simeonova-Ganeva, Department of Statistics and Econometrics, FEBA
  7:50 PM - 8:00 PM | Q&A
  8:00 PM - 8:05 PM | Closing remarks

• 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM  |  European Ethics Bowl 2025  Opening
  Location: Room 420
  The European Ethics Bowl (EEB) is an international academic competition that brings together university teams from across Europe to discuss and debate complex ethical dilemmas. The 2025 edition focuses on the theme “The Ethics of Truth and Information”, challenging participants to reflect critically on ethical issues related to digital communication, misinformation, public responsibility, and trust in institutions.

6:00 PM |  Get together (with dinner)
7:00 PM | Team building 

• 9:00 AM  – 8:00 PM  |  European Ethics Bowl 2025  Semi-finals
  9:00 AM  |  Opening and presentation of case study 1
  Location: Room 420
  10:40 AM  |  Draw of debate pairs for round 1
  Location: Room 420
  11:00 AM  |  Coffee break and  group photo
  11:30 AM - 1:00 PM  |  Debates round 1
  Location: Rooms 315, 320, 401, 420, 523
  1:10 PM  |  Lunch break
  2:10 PM  |  Presentation of case study 2
  Location: Room no. 420
  2:20 PM   |  Draw of debate pairs for round 2
  Location: Room no. 420
  3:30 PM  |  Coffee break
  4:20 PM - 5:50 PM |  Debates round 2
  Location: Rooms 315, 320, 401, 420, 523
  6:00 PM  |  Judges deliberation
  6:30 PM  |  Announcement of final 4
  Location: Room no. 420
  6:45 PM  |  Dinner
  
  

• 9:30 AM  – 1:30 PM  | Research Proposal  Session for Prospective Doctoral Applicants
  Location: Room 524
  Moderator: prof. Altin Idrizi, Faculty of Economics of University of Elbasan “Alexander Xhuvani”, Albania
  Speakers:
  Aikaterina Kosta, Primary School Teacher of Physical Education, Greece: Enhancing Adult Fitness Programs through Gamification: A Study on Motivation and Engagement in Pilates Training
  Nikolaos Kosta, Primary School Teacher of Physical Education, Greece: Effects of School Sports Participation on Academic and Career Success
  Nikolaos Saroukos, Head of Inspection and Tourism Development Department, Region of Thessaly, Greece: Resilient Tourism Development Through Public–Private Partnerships
  Konstantina Kostantinou, Administrative Officer, KEDASY Magnesia, Greece; Primary Education Teacher: Governance and Business Process Improvement in the Assessment of Special Educational Needs in Greece
  
  
  

• 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch
  
  

• 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Online conference
  
  Ioana-Florina Coita
  Brenda Mekambu
  Mahdi Zamani
  Gergana Tsatseva
  Vangelia Adams
  Tsvetelina Gidakis
  Tsvetelina Ivanova

• 9:00 AM  – 8:00 PM  |  European Ethics Bowl 2025  Finals
  9:00 AM  |  Opening and presentation of case study 3
  Location: Room 420
  9:15 AM  |  Draw of debate pairs for round 3
  Location: Room 420
  10:30 AM  |  Coffee break
  11:00 AM - 12:30 PM  |  Debates round 3
  Location: Rooms 315 and 320
  12:40 PM  |  Lunch break
  1:30 PM  |  Announcement of finalists
  Location: Room no. 420
  1:35 PM   |  Presentation of final case study
  Location: Room no. 420
  3:20 PM  |  Coffee break
  3:50 PM - 5:20 PM |  Debates finals
  Location: Room 420
  5:30 PM  |  Judges deliberation
  Location: Room no. 420
  6:30 PM  |  Announcement of  winners and dinner
  Location: TBA