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The main objective of the current study is to research and justify, from the position of time, the means for establishing the academic subject "Social Pedagogy" in the Faculty of Social Pedagogy at Southwest University "N. Rilski", as well as to reveal its promising resources for quality education of students – future social pedagogues. To achieve the objective we rely on content analysis on empirical information in databases – university's administrative archive, electronic catalog of the university library, public profiles of the lecturers. Data related to the development of the Faculty of Pedagogy, the educational documentation of the subject – qualification characteristics of bachelor's and master's programs and curricula, scientific production of teachers - publications, monographs, textbooks and teaching manuals are monitored and analyzed.

The goal of this research is to find out what determines monetary conditions in Bulgaria under a currency board arrangement – the automatic adjustment mechanism of the orthodox currency boards or discretionary policies of the government and the central bank. A time series vector autoregression for the period 1998-2018 is employed in order to investigate the impact of the fiscal reserve and the minimum required reserves of the commercial banks on the monetary base, the interbank interest rate, the money supply and the inflation rate. The empirical results indicate that the automatic adjustment mechanism does not function under the Bulgarian currency board but the policies of the government and the central bank have a discretionary effect on monetary conditions in the country.

This research aims to visualize the "impossible trilemma", i. e. the impossibility of simultaneously having a fixed exchange rate, free movement of capital and an independent monetary policy, for every economy through the application ofartificial intelligence software. The advantages of visualization techniques are revealed. The explored countries are divided into the following panels: theEurozone countries, the developed European countries (DEC), the developed non-European countries (DNEC), the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), the developing European countries and the Organizationof the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The results of the research show a great level of confirmation of the trilemma for the developing economies and the developed non-European countries. This implies that there is a compromise between exchange rate stability, monetary independence, and free capital mobility.

In this study the financial resources from the Structural and Cohesion Funds which Bulgaria has received are analyzed, presented as expenditures from the EU budget and their link to economic growth is examined. Quarterly statistical data covering the period 2008-2014 is used, along with 28 observations. A standard linear regression is applied for the calculation of the coefficients and the interpretation of the results in the form of the least squares method. The results of the empirical analysis show that there is a proportional statistically significant link between the financial resources from the EU budget and the economic growth of Bulgaria. It is assumed that the expenditure incurred during the analyzed period under the Structural and Cohesion Funds has led to a 1% increase in the economic growth of the country.

The legal-pedagogical analysis focuses on the opening of the first Higher Pedagogical Course (1888) and its implementation as a higher school with the main task of preparing teachers to work for the national and cultural individuality of the Bulgarians. As a result, it is assumed that with the Higher School in Sofia, a successful model of higher education was established in the system and the foundations of scientific and methodological practice were laid in accordance with "our national ideals". Its transformation into Sofia University is assessed as a legislative and socio-pedagogical contribution of national importance, in line with the strategy for the development of a comprehensive education system in the country.

The chances for fiscal and monetary influence on the business cycle of Bulgaria under a currency board arrangement have been analyzed. The determinants of Bulgaria's business cycle phase and output gap from the first quarter of 2000 till the second quarter of 2017 have been identified. The effects of minimum reserve requirements, fiscal balance, government revenue, government expenditure and government debt on the business cycle phase and the output gap have been studied. Two research methods have been employed – logistic regression and ordinary least squares regression of times series data. The study results imply that all mentioned variables except for government debt have a statistically significant impact on the output gap. The business cycle phase is significantly affected by all mentioned variables with the exception of government expenditure.

The relationship between the dynamics of the capital markets of Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Slovenia, Turkey, Romania and Macedonia and the public attitudes expressed by the inflation expectation indicators, consumer and business confidence indicators for the period 2005-2015 is analyzed. The results obtained on the Granger causality emphasize the interaction between business confidence and capital markets, and its direction depends on the degree of market development. The dependence in the more developed markets of Turkey, Greece and Croatia is in line with the assumptions of the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) and on the influence line of "business confidence - a capital market". Reverse dependence is seen in the less developed markets of Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania and Slovenia. In addition to an inefficiency according to EMH and the theory of real business cycles, this could also be regarded as a prerequisite for strengthening negative market trends and bringing instability to the market in times of crisis. The degree of development of the capital markets also determines their relationship with consumer confidence as in the more developed markets it is directed to the capital markets and in the case of the less developed ones in the opposite direction.

This report is a detailed analysis of the adequacy of curriculum and extracurricular activities in the fight against substance abuse. The opinion of students in the junior high and high school stages of education and the teachers teaching in both stages was studied. The aim of the research is to specify to what extent the curriculum, extracurricular activities and activities in the classroom are adequate for the prevention of addictions to psychoactive substances. The survey was conducted using a form provided to the principals of two schools. The respondents are in two groups – the first group of students from junior high school and high school stage of education and the second group - teachers who teach the respective students. The study was conducted in the period 14.04.2022 – 05.06.2022 among students and pedagogical specialists from Hristo Smirnenski Primary School and Sofia University "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" both with headquarters in the town of Radomir.

This article aims to analyze the beginning of the transition from logos to myth. To incorporate the religious into his Enlightenment philosophical system, Schelling presents a reconstruction of myth. The conceptions of the religious consciousness of the Self from antiquity as presented. The myth embodies cultural reality and the history of self-consciousness, an idea that was later considered by Mircea Eliade. Myths evolve in parallel with human evolution. The need for the development of abstract thinking and the complex social environment presuppose the new mythology. Christianity in history appears as part of the mechanism of human development, which generally symbolizes the transition from mythology to Christianity. Theology must abstract mythologies from the purely divine, but together they participate in the formation of human consciousness.

In 2013, within the framework of the internal university research (Art. 64, Art. 65a, Art. 90 and Art. 91 of the Law on Higher Education, in accordance with Regulation 9 / 08.08.2003, Art. Rilski" in Blagoevgrad was conducted a survey of small and medium-sized companies in the South-West planning region. The aim was to analyze the entrepreneurial attitudes and assessments of entrepreneurs and other respondents with regard to the "Small and Medium Business" sector on the effectiveness of the policy for its support. Data in 246 of the over 300 surveys distributed were assessed as representative. Further, both a summary of the results of the empirical data collected and a general overview of the very notion of "SME policies" as it is understood in most EU Member States with a tradition and experience in supporting these businesses as an important factor for the viability of a modern market economy were provided.

The article is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the birth of St. Paisii Hilendarski (1722 – 1773) and is therefore written in a more emotional way and somewhat in his style. It comments on Paisii's theses on the language and faith of the Bulgarian people, on statehood and spirituality, on knowledge and education. As a result, it is assumed that the national idea of Paisii Hilendarski is the fourleaved clover of Bulgarianness – according to him, the happiness of the Bulgarian people lies in the unity of language – clan – faith – Fatherland. His message is about catharsis in the soul of the Bulgarians – reached by knowing one's native languge, fighting for the independence of the church and uprising for national liberation.

The article includes a theoretical overview of the ideas of two scientists: Georgi Lozanov (Bulgaria) and Israel Shvarts (Russia) and an empirical study of their popularity and use by Bulgarian public school teachers. The two scientists worked in the 70s of the 20th century and came to have similar psychological and pedagogical ideas in the field of learning. They are related to the role of suggestion and relaxation in the educational design of children and adolescents, as an opportunity for its optimization and charging with emotions and positive experiences, or as a means of relaxation and recovery.

The twin deficit hypothesis, which explores the causal link between the budget deficit and the current account deficit, is put to the test for a sample of 188 countries for the period 1980-2014. The obtained results show that there is a complex impact on the current account dynamics, which cannot be explained solely by the dynamics of a single variable, or, if it is possible, then this variable is not the budget balance. It is found that the average budget balance is positive in only 36 countries (it is negative in the remaining 152 countries), ergo, the twin deficit hypothesis is confirmed. This is also supported by the VAR analysis - the double deficit hypothesis is valid for all groups of coefficients except those of Tuvalu, Lebanon, Eritrea and Equatorial Guinea, which have extreme coefficients (above -10).