The Rector Awarded the Honorary Title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the UNWE to Prof. Dr. Thomas Puhl, President of the University of Mannheim

"Dear Prof. Puhl, your career and your work as President of the University of Mannheim and as President of the Governing Board of the European University Alliance ENGAGE.EU from 2020 to 2024 show that you are one of the visionaries responsible for developing the European Education and Research Area", said the Rector Prof. Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov, adding: “Your contribution to the development of the European University Alliance ENGAGE.EU and to the funding of the second phase of the project is enormous. It is a great success which is a recognition of your efforts to make the nine partner universities in the Alliance to work together and reflects the quality of the projects that have been implemented so far. Over the past three years, numerous research projects have been developed within the framework of ENGAGE.EU. The participation of UNWE in this alliance gives us the opportunity to work together with the best European universities in the fields of economics, management and law and to play an active role in establishing and transforming key policies in the European Education and Research Area. We are proud to call all other universities not only our colleagues, but also our academic friends. UNWE is the best higher education institution according to the assessment by the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency. The score of 9.80 is the highest ever achieved by a Bulgarian university and the participation of our university in the ENGAGE.EU alliance certainly contributed to that score. The internationalization of education is our purpose policy”.