DRIVING EXCELLENCE IN INNOVATION

APPLIED RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATIONS FUND

ARC FUND
ARC FUND

Innovation.bg 2025

Award-winning innovative Bulgarian companies and finalists in the “Innovative Enterprise of the Year 2025” competition

XXI National Innovation Forum

On December 9, 2025, Sofia hosted the 21st National Innovation Forum organized by the Applied Research and Communications Fund in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and with the assistance of the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria. The event brought together leading representatives of business, academia, and public institutions. For more than two decades, the National Innovation Forum has been uniting efforts to develop innovation in Bulgaria, presenting the key findings of the “Innovation.bg” report annually and recognizing the most successful Bulgarian...

December 9, 2025
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SustainX in 2025: Building Living Regional Action Plans for Green and Digital Innovation

In 2025, the SustainX project progressed from conceptual framing to concrete, region-specific implementation work, with a strong focus on translating green and digital transition ambitions into operational regional pathways. A core pillar of this phase was the development of Regional Action Plans across five participating regions, each reflecting distinct innovation capacities, policy frameworks, and ecosystem maturity levels. Rather than producing static strategy documents, the project partners worked collaboratively to develop living action frameworks—designed to evolve, be fine-tuned, and...

December 17, 2025
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Excellence in innovation

The Excellence in innovation label recognizes excellence, impact and efficiency of cutting-edge innovations developed by Bulgarian enterprises.

• Wiser Technology
• MClimate AD
• AMG Technology OOD
• Waves Vision EOOD.
• Organic Invest Bio Protection OOD
• Fadron OOD
• Eurotrust Technologies AD
• Data Science Society EOOD
• Marketing King EOOD
• AvtoIkonom OOD
• Alegi Engineering Ltd.
• Elka.BG
• Biostyle OOD
• Eterzeit EOOD
• Momfident OOD
• SOMENSO EAD
• 3D Open Design EOOD
• DMD OOD
• Takova Group OOD
• EcoLogic Solutions Group
• 3-Fi EOOD
• GEOCOM Co. EOOD

World Day of Social Justice: Labour Market Inclusivity Event

All throughout Europe, people over the age of 50 are becoming an increasingly large section of the population. Nonetheless, they remain confronted with severe and specific challenges, with discrimination in the labour market affecting many people in the “silver” age group. Inadequate access to the labour market, low employee retention, and unfair treatment are only some of the challenges faced by people over 50. The SYNCLUSIVE initiative seeks to address these issues and make valuable contributions to social justice and equality. Within its framework, ARC Fund participated in a joint event...

February 23, 2026
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Burgas: a hub for digitalization and smart growth

On October 17, 2025, Burgas hosted the fourth event of the national initiative “Dialogue Innovations.bg 2040.” The forum brought together leading experts, entrepreneurs, representatives of the scientific...

October 21, 2025
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