On 25.6.2020 a training-information event took place at the NRCB under the VIVA Project, conducted under the Erasmus+ Program with the partnership with 7 more organizations from all over Europe. The young visually impaired people, who took part in the first training in social entrepreneurship and developing the corresponding competencies and skills, became trainers themselves by sharing with their visually impaired peers the aim and the idea behind the project,

The specially adapted for visually impaired viewersshow of the “Catch me if you can” movie  was held on 16.6.2020 at the NRCB. The event was welcomed with a great interest by the visually impaired people and was held under strict safety measures due to the emergency state in the country. We envisage promoting other similar events, so please follow our web site for further news and announcements.

The new BrainPort  Vision Pro is a 2nd generation oral electronic vision aid that provides electro-tactile stimulation to aid profoundly blind patients in orientation, mobility, and object recognition as an adjunctive device to other assistive methods such as the white cane or a guide dog.

​BrainPort Vision Pro translates digital information from a wearable video camera into gentle electrical stimulation patterns on the surface of the tongue. Users feel moving bubble-like patterns on their tongue which they learn to interpret as the shape, size, location and motion of objects in their environment. Some users have described it as being able to “see with your tongue”.

 The second part of the training for trainers under the VIVIEN Project for prevention of gender based violence and assisting of its victims took part on 27th February 2020 in the Cultural Center Trakart in Plovdiv. Representatives of the NRCB, “Eyes on four paws” Foundation, The University of Parma, Italy, The University of applied science in Satakunta, Finland, the BABE organization from Croatia. The partner organizations were presented, their practices

 The second international seminar under the V.I.V.A. Project, under the Erasmus+ Program was held in Sofia during the week 18-22 November 2019. The project aims at developing entrepreneurship, knowledge and behavior of young visually impaired people and it includes partner organizations from Bulgaria, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Romania and Belgium. Many representatives of the target group took part in the seminar and the had the opportunity to build and improve their

On December 4th 2019 the National Rehabilitation Center for the Blind – Plovdiv held the social experiment “A cup of coffee in the darkness” for the second time at  the art-gallery in the archeological underpass in the center of the city. The gallery was established under the „Expanding the Center for Mutual Assistance, Integration and Support” Project. This time, there was again a great interest by the visitors. The guests

The NRCB celebrated the International day of the white cane (15th October) by conducting a Day of the open doors. The Center was visited by the Minister of labor and social affairs Bisser Petkov, the Executive director of “Social assistance” Agency Rumyana Petkova, the GERB candidate for mayor of Plovdiv Zdravko Dimitrov, the mayor of “Eastern” District Nikolay Chunchukov, the chairman of the Union of the Blind Vassil Dolapchiev, journalists