site.btaEducation Minister: 50 Recovery and Resilience Plan Projects Modernize School Facilities

Education and Science Minister Krasimir Valchev said 50 projects under the Recovery and Resilience Plan are upgrading school facilities nationwide. He was speaking in Blagoevgrad during an information session, part of the National Information Campaign on the introduction of the euro.

Asked about school repairs ahead of September 15, the first school day, he said work had been carried out in 1,500 schools, with STEM centres set up in almost all schools. Around 250 renovations will continue after the school year begins, but all schools are set to open, sometimes across more than one location.

Information boards and materials about the euro, to be introduced in January 2026, will be displayed in schools, helping students quickly familiarize themselves with the new banknotes. The curricula include topics on budgets, loans, income and expenses. "These additional competencies have been included in the new curricula, but the issue for Bulgarian students is more with basic and functional literacy than with financial literacy," Valchev noted.

Bulgaria has nearly 2,400 schools and about 2,000 kindergartens.