Jubilee Conference on Innovation and Competitiveness

Monday, 04 May 2020 14:50

Innovation and Competitiveness was the topic of the online Jubilee Conference organized by the Student Council jointly with the Industrial Business Department. The event dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of UNWE was held under the patronage of the Rector Prof. Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov.

"I am very pleased to open this Conference because its topic - Innovation and Competitiveness - is not ocassionally chosen. In the recent days many people made huge efforts for the UNWE to move to online training. For a short time we also managed to incorporate online systems for the entrance exams. I am especially grateful to the Information Technology Directorate which for a short time succeeded to implement the digitalization of the university at a very fast pace." These were the words the Rector Prof. Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov opened the Forum.

Angel Stoykov, Chairman of the Student Council, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Radko Radev, Deputy Head of the Industrial Business Department, the Rector Prof. Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tsvetana Stoyanova, Vice Rector for Institutional and Business Cooperation and Student Policies /from the left to the right/

The Chairman of the Student Council Angel Stoykov greeted the participants and expressed his thankfulness to the Rectors Management and the Industrial Business Department for the good cooperation and support:

- I am extremely pleased to welcome you on behalf of the organization I represent - the Student Council - to the first online Conference on Innovation and Competitiveness organized jointly with the Industrial Business Department. I am glad that the Student Council managed to overcome the difficulties and be part of the Conference where we - the students - have the opportunity to make our first steps in creating science. Thanks to the Rectors Management for the support as well as to the Industrial Business Department for they were the driving force for the event and for our good cooperation.

Angel Stoykov

More than 60 students from various specialties took part in the Jubilee Conference and had the task to prepare economic studies. Lecturers from the Department selected the 28 best ones introduced as presentations to a jury of four members. Chairman of the jury was Assoc. Prof. Dr. Radko Radev, Deputy Head of the Industrial Business Department and Director of the Scientific Research Center for Business Competencies Development – Innovations and Competitiveness (u2b). Members of the jury were: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dimitar Blagoev, Dean of the Business Faculty, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Georgy Zabunov, Head of the Real Estate Department, and the Chairman of the Student Council Angel Stoykov.

The scientific jury conferred special prizes on nine students. Among them were Radostin Dimitrov for his report entitled What is Airbnb-Real Estate Broker or Online Service as well as Veselina Veleva, Victoria Lazarova, Stefany Stoeva and Pencho Tsvetkov who presented together their paper on the Impact of the Global Pandemic of Covid-19 on Low Cost Airlines Following the Example of Ryanair. Blagomila Zlatanova and Maria Sotirova received a special award for their paper on the Impact of Coronavirus on the Alcohol Sector on the Example of the Wine Cellar “Todorov AD”.

For best performance the jury awarded the students Rayna Todorova and Martin Lukanov for their report on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Bottle Wine Cellar "Villa Yustina".

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