College of Ecology and Environmental Protection

About us

The Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection was established in 1974. This was the first University department, teaching for nearly three decades Ecology and Environmental protection.

At different periods Heads of the Department were:
Prof. Ivan Bondev (1975 – 1993), Assoc. Prof. Roumen Doichev (1994 – 1999) and since 1999 Assoc. Prof. Valentin Bogoev. For many years lecturers of different subjects were Prof. Ivan Penev, Assoc. Prof. Marin Simeonovsky, Assoc. Prof. Ivan Tsonev, Assoc. Prof. Peter Stoianov and Assist. B. Boyanovsky, as well as biologists Nadejda Furnadjieva, Veska Stanoeva, Fedia Zlatareva, Vassil Vassilev.

Nowadays the Department is responsible for the ecological and environmental protection education of the students of all bachelor’s programmes in the Faculty of Biology and for two MSc programmes –Ecology and Environmental protection.