Author: Nadia Miteva

The SI-Zone project in partnership with organisations from Austria, France, Romania, Spain and UK will end at the end of March. During it the consortium developed a model for identifying potential social entrepreneurs among the target groups and a model of career guidance in social economy and entrepreneurship. Based on that all partners together developed…

BILSP, in cooperation with Infologica OOD, recently released a research report on the changes in the socio-economic status of people with disabilities (PwD) compared to 2009. The report includes an assessment of the potential of PwD and businesses for social and labour market integration, including gravity and network analysis of PwD capacity as labour capital….

BILSP and Fair Wear Foundation prepared a couple of videos on worker rights. The videos are related to the precarious COVID-19 situation. The topics discussed are health and safety, job and wage losses, and leave entitlements. If you are interested in your rights as a worker or are concerned with the situation at your workplace, these…

Fair Wear Foundation recently released its Bulgaria Country Study 2019. The report explores the status of the garment industry and, more broadly, the industrial relations in the country. The country study also reviews the implementation of the Fair Wear Code of Labour Practices. Two of our BILSP colleagues actively contributed to drafting the report.

BILSP recently completed an evaluation commissioned by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, in which deinstitutionalisation and social inclusion measures financed under the previous programming period of Human Resources Development OP were scrutinised for their effectiveness, efficacy and impact. You can read the final report here:

The national support point of the Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe (EPALE) held a seminar on ‘Good Practices in Adult Learning’ on April 18-19. Dr. Y. Takeva, Chair of the Trade Union of Bulgarian Teachers and winner of the ‘Ambassador of Lifelong Learning’ award in 2017, inaugurated the event. The seminar participants had the…

Snapshots from the Borders project holds a two-day meeting in Brussels. The key topics of the meeting include the establishment of the Border Towns and Islands Network (BTN), presentation of intermediate project results and activities planning for 2019. Our colleagues working on the project in the Bulgarian territory are Mr. Dimitar Matev (BILSP), Ms. Vesna (senior…

Last night our platform Job Care was awarded a special social responsibility award at the 15th ‘IT Project of the Year’ competition organised by ICT Media и Computerworld. Job Care is a platform jointly developed by BILSP – Project Consultants Ltd., BILSP and Scale Focus.