Burgas Free University

Бургаски свободен университет

Basic information

  • Identifiers
    • DEQARINST0139
    • BG0005
    • BG-ETER.BAS.NATID: 000049741
    • Erasmus: BG BOURGAS01

      • Erasmus Institution Code

      Identifier assigned by the European Commission to higher education institutions participating in the Erasmus+ programme - data harvested from ETER/OrgReg

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    • SCHAC: bfu.bg

      • SCHema for Academia

      Internet domain (DNS)-based identifier of institutions, used in several European initiatives for data exchange in the education and research sector, e.g. Emrex - data acquired using the European University Foundation (EUF) HEI API

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    • Erasmus-Charter: E10161838

      • Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE)

      Application number related to the ECHE, required for higher education institutions participating in the Erasmus+ programme - data acquired using the European University Foundation (EUF) HEI API

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    • EU-PIC: 968938433

      • Participant Identification Code (PIC)

      A PIC is assigned to legal entities participating in EU-funded programmes - data acquired using the European University Foundation (EUF) HEI API

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    • EU-VAT: BG000049741

      • EU VAT number

      Identifier of economic operators for value-added tax (VAT) within the EU system, assigned by their national authority - data acquired using the EU participant register API

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    • WHED: IAU-001843

      • IAU World Higher Education Database (WHED)

      Identifier used in the world-wide WHED database of higher education institutions, managed by the International Association of Universities (IAU) - data harvested from ETER/OrgReg

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  • Provider type
    higher education institution
  • Legal seat(s)
    Burgas, Bulgaria
  • Website
    https://www.bfu.bg/en
  • Founding year
    1991
  • QF-EHEA levels
    third cycle, second cycle, first cycle
  • Permalink
    https://data.deqar.eu/institution/139

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Institutional and programme evaluation
    If the score obtained during the institutional accreditation procedure is below 4, the accreditation shall be denied. For scores between 4 and 5, the higher education institution may be allowed to offer instruction at Bachelor level in the relevant professional area or specialty related to regulated professions. For accreditation scores between 5 and 10 the higher institution may offer instruction at Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level (pursuant to Article 80, Paragraph 2. Higher Education Act, 61/2011).
  • Further information on external quality assurance in Bulgaria

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional accreditation
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Post-Accreditation Monitoring and Control (PAMC) procedure

Programme level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Engineering and electronization in electrical equipment (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • PhD
  • Level
    third cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Law (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master's
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Pedagogical and age psychology (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • PhD
  • Level
    third cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
PF 1.2 Pedagogy (degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    -
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
PF 3.2 Psychology (degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    -
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
PF 3.5 Public Communications and Information Sciences (degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    -
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
PF 3.7 Administration and Management (degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    -
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system
PF 3.7 Administration and Management (degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    -
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
PF 3.8 Economics (degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    -
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
PF 4.6 Informatics and Computer Sciences (degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    -
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
PF 5.2 Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation (degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    -
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
PF 5.3 Communication and Computer Equipment (degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    -
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
PF 5.3 Communication and Computer Equipment (degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor's and Master's
  • Level
    -
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.