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"Our society is arch of stone,

which could collapse if one

did not support the other."

Seneca

The Statistical Organizational Unit of the Ministry of Finance was founded on June 25, 1880 by a Royal Decree No 296. Today, our institution turns 133. There are very few public institutions in Bulgaria with similar worthy age.

The NSI President Reneta Indjova, Ph.D. will participate in the 17^th meeting of the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC), which will be held in the premises of Eurostat in Luxembourg on 15-16 May 2013. This is the second out of four ESSC meetings for the calendar year, chaired by Eurostat and attended by the Heads of National Statistical Offices of the Member States and representatives of EFTA countries, ECB and OECD.

Today, 8.05.2013, Annex for cooperation and exchange of information between the National Statistical Institute and the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was signed at the National Statistical Institute, as part of an agreement for cooperation and strategic partnership between NSI and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

On 29/04/2013, at the invitation of the President of NSI Ph.D. Reneta Indjova, at the National Statistical Institute was held a meeting with Mr. Svilen Donev - student at First English Language School in Sofia, who won third prize in the international competition to produce a video on the occasion "2013 - International Year of Statistics" with a video titled "Statistics - Grammar of Science".

The President of NSI handed the winner a special congratulatory award-memorial coin "2013 - International Year of Statistics."

With the partnership of the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria, the sixth conference of the European Forum for Geostatistics (EFGS) will take place from 23^rd to 25^th October 2013 in Sofia at Radisson Blue Grand Hotel, situated on the Narodno Sabranie Square.

The forum will discuss on topics related to spatial statistics from different data sources with a main focus on identifying the needs of data users.

In April, the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria launches the conducting of the survey on “Social Inclusion and Living Conditions 2013”.

On 16-18 April 2013 the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria will provide technical assistance to the State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) in the framework of IPA 2011 Multi-Beneficiary Statistical Co-operation Programme (IPA 2011).

On 15 April 2013 the President of the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria, Reneta Indjova, Ph.D., will meet with the members of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB) in the building of the European Commission in Brussels. The visit is at the invitation of the Chairperson of ESGAB, Mr. Thomas Wieser.