ABSTRACT
In its ‘Green Paper’ (2007), the Commission of the European Communities brings forward the main arguments in favour of the further internationalisation of the continental research space, i.e. of both its further internal integration and its intensified interaction with the global scientific community. These arguments outline the pressing necessity for internationalisation of the efforts of the European countries in the area of science and technology taking into consideration the EU ambition to strengthen its worldwide prominence. Along with that, however, in the countries of the post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) there are some deeply specific needs to dramatically accelerate the internationalisation of their national systems of science, education and technology. In this paper we will focus on both the essence and the historical genesis of some of these needs, laying a special emphasis on the situation of the social sciences in Bulgaria, with which we are most familiar.
