site.btaUPDATED BTA Cooperates with All 51 Universities in Bulgaria after Signing Agreement with Metallurgy University
The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) and the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM) signed a cooperation agreement here on Wednesday. BTA Director General Kiril Valchev called it "a big day for BTA" as the agency has now signed such an agreement with all 51 universities in the country.
Valchev said that the UCTM is the last school to sign an agreement with BTA, because he and the UCTM Rector, Senya Terzieva-Zhelyazkova, were looking to sign the document on a symbolic date, and November 5 is the Day of the Metal Worker in Bulgaria. That date was chosen, after the Lenin Steel Mill (now Stomana Industry S.A.) in Pernik, Southwestern Bulgaria, went into operation on November 5, 1953, and Kremikovtsi Iron and Steel Works near Sofia went into operation exactly 10 years later.
The agreements that BTA signs with universities provide for two things: one is the systematic publication of information provided by the schools, and the other is having students from those universities take their internships at the agency. Since the first agreement was signed in 2021, BTA has had 165 interns, and another 15 are expected in November for a total of 180 interns from 15 Bulgarian universities.
"Now that we have established partnerships with all Bulgarian universities, my vision, as my term in office is now coming to an end, is to start concluding such partnership agreements with emblematic schools in Bulgaria for my next term, specifically in the field of various professions that our country needs," said Valchev. He explained that the goal is for these schools to become well known and thus help parents make decisions about secondary schools when their children are in seventh grade.
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