The Defence Institute "Professor Tsvetan Lazarov" is established in Bulgaria and internationally recognized scientific organization, that has proved its unique expertise in the field of defence and security. The Defence Institute is established on 04.06.2009 by Decree № 140 of the Council of Ministers as a legal entity to the Minister of Defense and it is the successor of the rich traditions of a number of previous military-scientific, scientific-technical institutes and expert structures of the Ministry of Defence. On 21.01.2014, with Decree № 5 of the Council of Ministers, the Defence Institute was named as "Professor Tsvetan Lazarov". By its essence, the institute is a unique organizational complex with a proven scientific and expert part. It employs scientists, researchers, engineers and experts with an enormous scientific capacity and experience. In the academic units, more than a half of the Institute's personnel are academic staff, with respective academic degrees and titles. Scientific activity The Institute performs scientific and scientific-applied researches, as well as an experimental-constructive work in ten different fields, covering almost all the areas of security and defence, and the Bulgarian Defence Industry. The Institute participates with research teams in many national and international projects within NATO and the EU, cooperating with about 100 scientific organizations and business structures.
