Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy, as regional representative of the EU group of maritime universities in the niternational executive board of the International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU), is a regular participants at the meetings of the organisation’s Executive Board. The work of the board commenced on 24 October 2016 in Haiphong, the Socialist Republic of [...]
The national award of Student of the Year was established in 2006 at the initiative of the delegates to the General Assembly of the National Association of Student Unions in the Republic of Bulgaria. This year’s 10th edition is conducted under the auspices of the minister of education and science. The contest aims to popularise [...]
In accordance with the curriculum of the Naval Academy, September 2016 saw the start of the training voyages for the military cadets from the cadet battalion onboard the m/v 422 in the water zone of Naval Homeport Station Varna and in the Lake of Varna. During their training, second- to fifth-year cadets will exercise a [...]
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 [...]
