Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Full name
Institute of Population and Human Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Key contact
Professor Bojimir Davidov
Other contacts
Associate Professor Genoveva Georgieva (Director)
Institute of Population and Human Research
Mission:
The institute conducts demographic and psychological studies on factors affecting population and human development. Our analysis of reproductive processes and psychological mechanisms of human behavior is designed to help the authorities in performing the strategies and policies of the demographic and personal development in the circumstances in the European integration.
Priorities:
Demographic processes and structural changes; decremented birth rate, ageing, domestic and external migration, destabilising of the family institution, morbidity; other demographic challenges. Theories, methodologies and empirical analysis.
Demographic behavior changes in contemporary society in the economic and demographic crises and increased population mobility.
Integration processes and national identity regarding diversity including ethnicity and religion. Societal groups and social environment psycho societal crises end values.
Individual capacity of development, work and lifelong learning, institutional culture, improving of the psychological wellbeing, prevention of the negative behavioral manifestations (aggression, crime, alcohol and substance abuse).