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The National Round of the Sixth European Statistics Competition for Students 2023 has been successfully completed. Students from 310 teams participated in the two stages of the national round - 208 teams in Category A and 102 teams in Category B. 79 National Educational Centres teams from the country participated in both stages. The most teams are from Sofia - 50, Varna - 37, Dobrich - 31, Pazardzhik - 28 and Gotse Delchev - 25. For the sixth consecutive year, Ruse, Sliven, Burgas, Kozloduy, Troyan and General Toshevo have their representatives.

For the third time, the National Statistical Institute initiated the participation of teams from Bulgaria in the Statistical Poster Competition, organized by the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

The competition gives mentors and students the opportunity to demonstrate their talents in using statistics as a tool for studying socio-economic processes and the environment in which they live.

The NSI President Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD, participated in the 54th Session of the UN Statistical Commission (UNSC), which was held in New York from 28th February to 3rd March 2023. During the meeting, the reports of working groups in various fields were discussed and decisions were taken as follows on:

Starting as a political event, the holiday gradually became part of the culture of many countries around the world.

The first Women's Day was celebrated on February 23, 1909, in the USA at the initiative of the American Socialist Party.

The calendar date is associated with the first mass demonstration of women workers, which took place on March 8, 1857, in New York.

In the Bulgarian ritual culture, Baba Marta is a symbol of spring and an expression of a wish for health and fertility at the beginning of each new cycle in nature. The tradition is related to ancient pagan history from the Balkan Peninsula. The most specific feature of the 1 March rite is garnishing with twisted white and red woollen yarns.

According to Wikipedia, the tradition is still kept in our days in Romania, Moldova, North Macedonia, part of Greece, Serbia, Albania, as well as in a part of today's Ukraine.

The President of the National Statistical Institute Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD met with the Chairman of the Management Board of the Union for Private Economic Enterprise Vaska Baklarova.

The meeting was also attended by Svilen Kolev, PhD – NSI Deputy President and Assoc. Prof. Noncho Dimitrov from UPEE.

During the conversation, opportunities for cooperation and future joint projects were discussed. Both sides agreed that concluding a cooperation agreement would be a new step in joint activities.

NSI President Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD, was a lecturer in a training workshop on Economic Diplomacy, which was held at the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The topic of the presentation was "NSI - how to read the numbers". For one hour, Assoc. Prof. Atanasov presented the activities of NSI, the basic principles of statistics, the ways and channels of dissemination of statistical data, the main information systems of NSI, errors made when reading the information and others.

On 9 February 2023, in Luxembourg, the Directors-General of EU National Statistical Institutes gathered for a high-level workshop on the topic: "Data Governance Act - Challenges and Opportunities for National Statistical Institutes".

The meeting discussed issues of access to public data and private holders’ databases to be used for statistical purposes.

The summarized results of the implementation of the Data Governance Act in the field of official statistics in individual countries were presented.

On this date, lovers send valentines in the shape of hearts, cards, and flowers to each other. St. Valentine's Day was a much-loved holiday originally in Catholic countries, but nowadays it is gaining popularity all over the world.

The name of the holiday comes from a Christian martyr named Valentine, who lived in the 3rd century.

On this day in 1946, the United Nations radio first sounded. On the initiative of UNESCO, 65 years later, the United Nations General Assembly adopted in 2012 the date of February 13 as World Radio Day.

The theme of the 12th edition of World Radio Day in 2023 is ‘Radio and Peace’.

‘... since wars begin in the minds of men, the defense of peace must be built in the minds of men’, says the UNESCO Constitution.