25–26 September 2026
The European Researchers' Night
One night a year the labs, museums and universities stay open and the people who work in them talk to anyone who asks. This atlas was built for that night — and the night itself is a project under the very programme the atlas describes.
The Researchers' Night is itself a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project
The European Researchers' Night on 25 and 26 September 2026 is part of K-TRIO — Researchers in the Knowledge Triangle, a two-year project (15.04.2026 – 14.04.2028) under Horizon Europe, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and Citizens. Admission is free: 170 events at 13 venues in Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora, Yambol and Burgas.
Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski coordinates it and Forum Science Association (BG Science) leads the communication. The consortium holds 11 organisations and over 30 partners, the Ministry of Education and Science among them.
Across the two years the activities reach at least 15 towns in all six regions of the country, with events in Romania and Moldova as well. The project's motto is “Research and innovation shape our future”.
What to look at before the event
- The mapevery organisation that took part in a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project
- Bulgaria176 Bulgarian projects and who led them
- For studentshow to read the atlas if you are 14
- For teachersready-made classroom tasks
The atlas holds 42,441 Marie Skłodowska-Curie projects from 1996 to 2027. One of them is K-TRIO, which pays for this night.