Programme: Science and Education for Smart Growth Bulgaria

This National Operational Programme aims to strengthen research and innovation and to enhance education and social inclusion at all educational levels. In order to achieve these objectives, the Programme focuses on the following Priority Axes (PA):

• PA1 - Research and technological development
• PA2 - Education and lifelong learning
• PA3 - Educational environment for active social inclusion

Public and private research organisations (including the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Agricultural Academy), research institutes, laboratories, higher education schools and/or their primary units, R&D companies, consortia of research organisations and/or universities, centres of excellence and centres of competence (under SO1), MES and second-level spending units, ministries acting as financing bodies for schools, SACP, kindergartens, schools, higher schools, municipalities, resource centres, community centres, organisations registered under the Non-Profit Legal Entities Act, nationally represented organisations of workers and employees and employers’ organisations, employers, professional associations, representative student organisations registered in accordance with the law.

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