Pharmaceutical industry in our country is outstandingly developed. It provides employment for almost 15 000 Bulgarians. Few are the European countries where pharmaceutical industry ensures such percentage of Gross Domestic Product as in our country.

Today was the final of the FIRMA 5 competition, a project of the Bulgarian Network of the UN Global Compact. Being an active participant in the Network projects, Sopharma undertook to conduct a student competition, the award of which is to provide internship positions to finalists. This year, 5 team developments on pre-set cases in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Communications and Advertising entered into competition. The gift for all participants was a training course in presentation skills, provided by a professional adviser from Trainer.bg.

A Scientific and Educational Pharmacology Session of 3rd-year students, Bulgarian and English education, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the famous inventor, physician and pharmacologist Prof. Dr. Dimitar Paskov (1914-1986) took place on May 13. He has a major impact on the development of the Bulgarian pharmacology and "will remain a name that has become a symbol, associated not only with the famous Bulgarian products Nivalin and Tabex, but also with many other developments that are up-to-date and still used", said MPharm Rumen Ivanov from Sopharma at the opening ceremony.

National Council of Global Compact Bulgaria discussed next projects of the network. The project "I'm proud of my parents work 2014 " gathers more and more supporters not only from active members of the Global Compact Bulgaria, but companies that share same values and want to show their respect to labor. The project aims to show the children that labor is a value and each person is necessary to society, no matter what profession exercised , according to Ognjan Trayanov, a member of the National Assembly.

On May 24 a Sopharma team took part in 2014 Salomon Vitosha Trail Race (#SVT14). 230 enthusiasts from 6 countries took up the challenge to participate in the competition. According to race regulation the runners competed in three distances of varying lengths and difficulties.

Sopharma team performed quite well: Boyko Zlatanov scored 15:04 and won the first prize in the Veteran Group (Men, 4 km), while Margarita Vassileva scored 21:45 and won the second prize (Women, 4 km).