On 30 September 2025, the Applied Research and Communications Fund (ARC Fund) held an information session dedicated to supporting SMEs through the SustainX Open Call — an initiative helping businesses advance in digitalisation, sustainability, and innovation management. The event was organised jointly with the RTIT (Research and Technology Innovation Transfer) project and brought together representatives from business, academia, and innovation support organisations. It aimed to raise awareness of the opportunities under SustainX, which connects SMEs from Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Latvia, and...

“The world is no longer just changing – it’s accelerating. Uncertainty is now the status quo.” These words of Yordanka Chobanova, Head of the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria, marked the launch of ARC Fund’s Innovation.bg 2040 Dialogue, a national initiative kicked off on June 27, 2025, in the heart of the Trakia Economic Zone – Plovdiv, Europe’s oldest, and Bulgaria’s second biggest city. The roundtable gathered key leaders from the central and local government, business, research institutions, and the financial sector who shared a clear message: innovation can no longer be a...

The integration of renewable energy into traditional sectors is key to fostering sustainable growth. On 20 March 2025, industry experts, policymakers, and community leaders will gather at the Literary Club “Peroto” in Sofia for the fourth edition of the “Laboratory for ‘Wind’ Ideas.” Organized by the ARC Fund within the framework of the JustWind4All project, the event will focus on the fair development of wind energy in Northeast Bulgaria and explore its potential synergy with the agricultural sector. Event Highlights: Project Insights:The session will begin with an overview of...

Representatives of the ARC Fund and Industrial Cluster “Electromobiles” attended a symposium dedicated to the sustainable bioeconomy, which took place on October 13-14, 2024 in Linz, Austria. This event was part of the implementation of the project “Knowledge Communities to Accelerate the Transfer of Scientific Research, Technology and Innovation in the Danube Region” (RTIT>>). The aim of the series of meetings “Circularity of bio-based materials” was to strengthen the interaction between scientific and economic environments in the Danube region...