Faculty of Forest Industry (FFI)
July 25, 2024 2024-10-08 10:32Faculty of Forest Industry (FFI)
Welcome to the page of the Faculty of Forest Industry
Mission
Our mission is through education to create highly qualified engineering personnel for the woodworking and furniture industries and the interior design of furniture and furnishings.
Our main goal and tasks are to provide quality education and training of engineering personnel by studying the achievements of science, technology and design, applying the experience and traditions of the leading countries in this field, and active research and development activities to guarantee a successful competitive professional realization.
To fulfil the mission to achieve the main goal and tasks, the Faculty of Forest Industry has a highly qualified teaching staff with a modern material and technical base, training and production centres and laboratories, maintains close professional contacts with leading educational and scientific institutions in the EU, production companies and design bureaus in Bulgaria.
History
The Faculty of Forest Industry (FFI) is the successor of the Forest Industry Department, founded in 1949 at the Agricultural Academy – Sofia. With the Decree of the Presidium of the National Assembly No. 3754/12.01.1953 of the academic year 1953/1954, an independent Higher Forestry Institute was established with five specialities, one of which was Mechanical Wood Technology. FFI was established as an independent educational and scientific structure in 1974 based on the speciality of Mechanical Wood Technology.
Prof. Nino Statkov was elected as the first Dean of the faculty. Then, successively, the deans were Prof. Andrey Kavalov, Prof. Hristo Shehtov, Prof. Georgi Filipov, Prof. Hristofor Videlov, Prof. Nikolay Yosifov, Prof. Bozhidar Dinkov, Assoc. Prof. Hristofor Rusanov, Assoc. Prof. Neno Trichkov, Prof. Zivko Gochev. Since 2024, Prof. Dimitar Angelski has been the Dean of the faculty.
