On 11 October 2016, a delegation led by Vice Admiral Georgios Giakumakis – Chief of Hellenic Navy General Staff, paid a visit to Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy. They were accompanied by Rear Admiral Mitko Petev – Commander of the Navy of the Republic of Bulgaria, and his Deputy - Commodore Nikola Karanov . The visitors [...]
On 1 October 2016 at 1000 hrs, Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy hosted a solemn ritual for the Class of 2021 to take their military oath of allegiance. Seventeen newly recruited cadets, 14 boys and 3 girls, crossed the threshold of the Naval Academy on 19 August 2016 and have already started their five-year course of [...]
From 24 to 29 September 2016, Varna hosted an international conference on Power Electronics and Motion Control (PEMC2016 – http://www.ieee-pemc2016.org). PEMC is among the oldest European conferences in the field of power electronics and has been held in different European countries since 1970. This year’s edition was organised by the Industrial Electronics Society (IES) of [...]
17 September 2016 marked the end of the first ever refresher course in English for Ukrainian officers from the Odessa National Maritime Academy under NATO’s DEEP programme. The curriculum included 120 classes in advanced English, preceded by an entrance test. The course finished with a graduation ceremony for the Ukrainian officers, who are take a [...]
Today, 14 September 2016, the senior enlisted advisors of the Navy came to visit the Vocational NCO College at Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy. Their visit was a part of the agenda of the SEA Muster and was aimed at acquainting them with the innovations in the training facilities of the Academy, as well as meeting [...]
The third-year military cadet Nadezhda Stoyanova Ivanova, a major in Navigation for the Navy, has returned from sailing onboard the training vessel T/S PIRIREIS UNIVERSITESI, owned by the Turkish university of the same name. Together with another 200 civilian students and military cadets from other educational institutions, cadet Ivanova went on a two-month voyage from [...]
In the period from 31 August to 3 September 2016, the Rector of Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy, Commodore Prof. DSc Boyan Mednikarov, took part in the 20th conference of the chiefs of naval academies from the EU and USA, which was hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The biennial event was also [...]
By invitation of the President of the U.S. Naval War College, Rear Admiral Jeff Harley, on 6 September 2016 the Rector of Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy, Commodore Prof. DSc Boyan Mednikarov paid an official visit to the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Prof. Thomas Mangold - Dean, International Programmes, Prof. Thomas Culora [...]
For the second year in a row Naval Home Station Varna hosted the Armed Forces Volleyball Championship. From 30 August to 2 September 2016, the team selections of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Vasil Levski National Military University, and Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy, as well as teams from Logistics Brigrade, Military Unit 34570 – Karlovo, [...]
On 7 September 2016 at 8 o’clock, the Bulgarian barquentine Kaliakra set sail from the Passenger Terminal of the Port of Varna to participate in the Tall Ships 2016 Regatta. Military cadets and civilian students, boys and girls from Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy embarked on the legendary sail ship to gain some hands-on experience at [...]
