site.btaTwo Groups of Bulgarian Teachers to Visit CERN This Year

Two groups of Bulgarian teachers will visit the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) this year, Snejina Dimitrova, Director of the Nicolaus Copernicus National Observatory and Planetarium in Varna (on the Black Sea), told BTA. The visits will take place in July and September with the assistance of the Observatory.

The groups are open to teachers from across Bulgaria. In Dimitrova's words, they will be selected based on their work in the past  year and their desire to afterwards present in a comprehensible and attractive way to their pupils and colleagues what they will have learned at CERN.

In April, the National Observatory and Planetarium will host the 50th national astronomy conference, Dimitrova also said. To participate in the forum in addition to professionals are amateur astronomers, pupils, and students, who will have the opportunity to present the results of their observations made in 2023. Because this is a jubilee conference, partners from CERN will be invited as well as Bulgarian scientists currently working in Canada, the USA, Austria, Thailand, Chile, Australia, France, and Germany, she added.

The Observatory has several festivals planned for 2024, one of which is called "The Difficult Steps to the Truth about the Universe" and will be dedicated to the 2,300th birth anniversary of Eratosthenes and the 460th birth anniversary of Galileo Galilei.