Students, PhD students and professors from the University of Nis, Republic of Serbia, visited the University of Veliko Tarnovo for another year. The visit of the group from the University of Niš began with a working meeting with the dean of the Faculty of Philology, Assoc. Dr. Polina Tsoncheva, and with the collegium from the Department of Slavic Studies. After the meeting, the 20th scientific conference on the topic “Borders in the culture of Bulgarians and Serbs” was opened.
The vice-rector for academic activities and professor at FF Prof. Dr. Hristo Bonjolov welcomed the guests and greeted them on behalf of the rector Prof. Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov and personally on his own behalf with the warm “Welcome again to Veliko Tarnovo and the University of Veliko Tarnovo , colleagues and friends from Nis!”.
Prof. Dr. Tsenka Ivanova delivered an extremely interesting report during the conference on the topic “On the Bulgarian-Serbian language borders and mutual understanding”. The host exchange visits started in 2002 and are one of the most sustainable partnerships between the two universities, which have a cooperation agreement since 1987 and maintain the Bulgarian and Serbian language lectures under the interstate agreement on scientific, educational and cultural exchange. For more than twenty years, several hundred students who have studied Bulgarian language in Niš and Serbian language in VTU “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” participated in this partnership program. Dozens of professors have participated in the thematic conferences, and the two faculties also take turns in publishing the collections of reports. This year’s program is implemented through the university project “International Academic Networks – Traditions and Innovations”. The titles of the nineteen volumes published reflect the original intent of this partnership and are known in a number of humanities libraries abroad.
Exchange visits date back to 2002. So far, 20 conference rotations have been held. 19 thematic bilingual collections, known in Slavistic centers abroad VTU | Faculty of Philology | The culture of Bulgarians and Serbs – thematic collections (uni-vt.bg).
