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Faculty of Forest Industry

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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.

More information about the history of the Faculty of Forest Industry.

Specialties

We are accredited by the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (NEAA) for tuition in four specialities at the Bachelor and Master programs:

  • Technology of Wood and Furniture. The speciality is in the professional field 6.5. Forestry and prepare engineer-technologists for the production of furniture and woodworking (the production of veneer and plywood, the production of engineered and solid wood and wooden structures, the production of wood-based panels, etc.). The bachelor courses prepare wide-profile specialists for woodworking and the furniture industry. In the master courses, managerial, specialized and methodical research disciplines are studied in more depth and at a higher level, selected depending on the chosen specialization: Technology of Wood-Based Materials and Composites; Furniture Manufacturing; Conservation and Restoration of Wood Products, Woodworking Machines and Equipment. The tuition is carried out on a regular and part-time basis.
  • Engineering Design (Interior and Furniture Design). The speciality is in the professional field 5.13. General Engineering and preparing constructors and designers of furniture and furnishing of residential and public buildings. Graduates of this speciality work as designers and constructors; work in consulting companies and companies exercising activities in the furniture industry; work as consultants, experts and organizers in project development, as well as teachers in vocational high schools; manage design offices, small and medium enterprises from the furniture industry. In the bachelor's degree, design and engineering training is obtained, certified by a diploma of completed higher education, and they acquire the professional qualification "Design Engineer in Engineering Design". In the "master's" degree, managerial, specialized and design disciplines are studied in more depth and at a higher level, selected depending on the chosen specialization: Product Design, Design of the Living Environment and Design of the Urban Environment. The tuition takes place regularly.
  • Computer Technologies in Furniture Industry. The speciality is in the professional field 5.13. General Engineering and prepares engineers for the needs of the furniture industry with competencies in digitization, digitization and CNC technological processes. Education in educational and qualification degrees "Bachelor" and "Master" provides fundamental knowledge in furniture engineering, digital technologies, and informatics, based on the Industry 4.0 platform, including cloud technologies, Internet technologies, augmented virtual reality, and engineering information management. Graduates of this speciality are realized in all areas of industry as technologists and designers working with modern computer methods for design and management in the furniture industry, consultants, experts and organizers in the development of technological and innovation projects, as well as teachers in vocational high schools. In the bachelor's degree, engineering training is obtained, certified by a diploma of completed higher education, and they acquire the professional qualification "Computer technology engineer in the furniture industry". In the "Master" educational and qualification degree, managerial, specialized and methodological research disciplines related to the digitalization of furniture production are studied more thoroughly and at a higher level. The tuition takes place regularly.
  • Furniture Industry 4.0 (joint master degree program with Technical University - Gabrovo). Tutution in the speciality is carried out only in a master's program, a regular form of training. Graduates of the "Furniture Industry 4.0" speciality receive knowledge skills and acquire competencies for computer design and automated management of technological processes for furniture production, as well as technologies directly related to the digitization of the furniture industry. Graduates of the master's program are realized in all areas of the sector as technologists and designers, working with modern computer methods for design and management in the furniture industry; working in the field of automation and robotization of furniture companies; in consulting companies and companies specializing in the implementation of digital technologies, CAD/CAM/CAE and Internet-based systems in enterprises from the furniture industry. They also work as consultants, experts, organizers in developing technological and innovation projects, and teachers in vocational high schools.

Doctoral studies

In the Faculty of Forest Industry, PhD students are trained in the following accredited scientific specialities, and the training is carried out in full-time, part-time and independent form:

  • Ergonomics and Industrial Design;
  • Wood Science and Wood-Based Materials;
  • Machinery and Equipment in the Forestry, Logging, Woodworking and Furniture Industries;
  • Technology, Mechanization and Automation of the Woodworking and Furniture Industry.

Tutution in the Faculty of Forest Industry is carried out by thirty-eight highly qualified teachers, including nine professors, ten associate professors, fifteen chief assistant professors, and five assistant professors.

For conducting theoretical tuition and practical classes, the Faculty of Forest Industry has specialized laboratories for cutting wood and cutting tools, a training and demonstration centre for hand power tools, automation and production automation, a training and production centre for woodworking, a training and production centre furniture production, computer animation and virtual reality laboratory, BLUM training and

demonstration centre, mechatronics laboratory, door and window training and demonstration centre.

The faculty maintains close contacts with companies from the woodworking and furniture industry, in which it conducts practical training for students and uses it as a base for developing and implementing research projects.

In its long history, the Faculty of Forest Industry has built excellent relationships with related faculties and universities from many countries. The facts that illustrate his international authority are the participation of the professors in various scientific events abroad; scientific achievements, the winning competitions for projects financed by international foundations; the conferment of honorary titles, namely: members of IUFRO, members of the American Society of Forestry Engineers, etc. Graduates of the specializations from the Faculty of Forest Industry who work or have worked in foreign universities (USA, Canada, Sweden, Japan, Chile, France, Switzerland, Germany, etc.); participation in international projects under the TEMPUS, PHAR and Leonardo da Vinci programs; joint research projects with teams from foreign universities (Russia, Slovakia, Serbia and Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Greece, Switzerland, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary); provide scientific and technical assistance by our teachers to organizations and companies (Nigeria, Sudan, Lebanon, Slovakia, Republic of North Macedonia, Czech Republic, etc.); prizes, certificates and diplomas won by students and graduates of both specialities from international competitions and exhibitions.

At the moment, the Faculty of Forest Industry has accreditation and is training a total of 400 students, divided into 4 specialities, in full-time and part-time study (and for doctoral programs also independent study), in 3 educational and qualification degrees - "Bachelor", "Master" and "Doctor".

Dean's office

Committee Staff:

Chairman:
Assoc. Prof. Desislava Angelova, PhD

Members:
Prof. Vasil Jivkov, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Julia Mihaylova, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Neli Staneva, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Nikolay Minkovski, PhD
Chief. Asisst. Prof. Izabela Radkova, PhD

Committee Staff:

Chairman:
Prof. Zhivko Gochev, PhD – Dean

Members:
Prof. Dimitar Angelski, PhD – Vice Dean
Prof. Vasil Jivkov, PhD
Prof. Julia Mihaylova, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Neli Staneva, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Nikola I. Minkovski, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Pavlin Vitchev, PhD
Tihomir Stanev – Student TWF
Ralitca Milanova – Student ID

Committee Staff:

Chairman:
Assoc. Prof. Pavlin Vitchev, PhD

Members:
Assoc. Prof. Desislava Angelova, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Pavlina Vodenova, PhD
Chief. Asisst. Prof. Rangel Chipev, PhD
Eng. Ralitca Stavrev-Pancheva – PhD Student

Committee Staff:

Chairman:
Prof. Zhivko Gochev, PhD

Members:
Prof. Vasil Jivkov, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Viktor Savov, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Georgy Vukov, PhD
Chief. Asisst. Prof. Izabela K. Radkova, PhD

Committee Staff:

Chairman:
Assoc. Prof. Desislava Angelova, PhD

Members:
Prof. Petar Antov, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Iliana Apostolova, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Neli Staneva, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Pavlin Vitchev, PhD

Dean
Prof. PhD Dimitar Hristov Angelski
Address:10 Kliment Okhridsky Blvd.,1756 Sofia, Building А,office  221
Inner Phone:(+359 2) 91 907/463
Direct phone:(+359 2) 862 10 98
Fax:(+359 2) 862 28 54
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
 
Vice Dean for Scientific and development activities
Prof. PhD Viktor Petrov Savov
Address:10 Kliment Okhridsky Blvd.,1756 Sofia, Building А,office  221
Inner Phone:(+359 2) 91 907/463
Direct phone:(+359 2) 862 10 98
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
 
Vice Dean for Educational activities
Prof. PhD Iliana Naumova Apostolova
Address:10 Kliment Okhridsky Blvd.,1756 Sofia, Building А,office  221
Inner Phone:(+359 2) 91 907/463
Direct phone:(+359 2) 862 10 98
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Inspector regular (full time) education Interior and Furniture Design
eng. Violeta Jordanova Boliarova
Adress:10 Kliment Okhridsky Blvd.,1756 Sofia, Building А,office 221
Inner phone:(+359 2) 91 907/430
Direct phone:(+359 2) 862 10 98
Fax:(+359 2) 862 28 30
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Inspector external education
Irina Hristova Misheva
Adress:10 Kliment Okhridsky Blvd., 1756 Sofia, Building А, office 109
Inner phone:(+359 2) 91 907/450
Direct phone:(+359 2) 962 39 53
Fax:(+359 2) 862 28 30
E-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Inspector part-time learning
eng. Nadejda Konstantinova Simeonova
Adress:10 Kliment Okhridsky Blvd., 1756 Sofia, Building А, office 109
Inner phone:(+359 2) 91 907/450
Direct phone:(+359 2) 962 39 53
Fax:(+359 2) 862 28 30
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

HABILITATED STAFF:

Prof. Zhivko B. Gochev, PhD – Dean
Assoc. Prof. Neno I. Trichkov, PhD – Vice Rector
Prof. Regina P. Raycheva, PhD
Prof. Vasil J. Jivkov, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Vasil V. Vlasev, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Viktor Petrov Savov, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Georgy Y. Vukov, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Dimitrinka I. Vladeva, PhD
Prof. Dimitar Hristov Angelski, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Iliana N. Apostolova, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Neli N. Staneva, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Nikolay I. Minkovski, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Nikolay S. Bardarov, PhD
Assoc. Prof. PhD Pavlin Biserov Vitchev
Prof. Petar Y. Antov, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Raiko D. Stanev, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Radostina N. Damyanova, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Stela B. Tasheva, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Julia D. Mihaylova, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Yancho G. Genchev, PhD

NON-HABILITATED STAFF:
Chief. Asisst. Prof. Vasil S. Merdzhanov, PhD
Chief. Asisst. Prof. Desislava I. Angelova, PhD
Chief. Asisst. Prof. Izabela K. Radkova, PhD

STUDENT’S REPRESENTATIVES:
Eng. Boryana S. Petrova – PhD Student
Eng. Ralitca G. Stavreva-Pancheva – PhD Student
Tihomir D. Stanev – Student TWF
Ralitca G. Milanova – student ID

Welcome to the website of the Faculty of Forest Industry (FFI)

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.

More information about the history of the Faculty of Forest Industry.

Specialties

We are accredited by the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (NEAA) for tuition in four specialities at the Bachelor and Master programs:

  • Technology of Wood and Furniture. The speciality is in the professional field 6.5. Forestry and prepare engineer-technologists for the production of furniture and woodworking (the production of veneer and plywood, the production of engineered and solid wood and wooden structures, the production of wood-based panels, etc.). The bachelor courses prepare wide-profile specialists for woodworking and the furniture industry. In the master courses, managerial, specialized and methodical research disciplines are studied in more depth and at a higher level, selected depending on the chosen specialization: Technology of Wood-Based Materials and Composites; Furniture Manufacturing; Conservation and Restoration of Wood Products, Woodworking Machines and Equipment. The tuition is carried out on a regular and part-time basis.
  • Engineering Design (Interior and Furniture Design). The speciality is in the professional field 5.13. General Engineering and preparing constructors and designers of furniture and furnishing of residential and public buildings. Graduates of this speciality work as designers and constructors; work in consulting companies and companies exercising activities in the furniture industry; work as consultants, experts and organizers in project development, as well as teachers in vocational high schools; manage design offices, small and medium enterprises from the furniture industry. In the bachelor's degree, design and engineering training is obtained, certified by a diploma of completed higher education, and they acquire the professional qualification "Design Engineer in Engineering Design". In the "master's" degree, managerial, specialized and design disciplines are studied in more depth and at a higher level, selected depending on the chosen specialization: Product Design, Design of the Living Environment and Design of the Urban Environment. The tuition takes place regularly.
  • Computer Technologies in Furniture Industry. The speciality is in the professional field 5.13. General Engineering and prepares engineers for the needs of the furniture industry with competencies in digitization, digitization and CNC technological processes. Education in educational and qualification degrees "Bachelor" and "Master" provides fundamental knowledge in furniture engineering, digital technologies, and informatics, based on the Industry 4.0 platform, including cloud technologies, Internet technologies, augmented virtual reality, and engineering information management. Graduates of this speciality are realized in all areas of industry as technologists and designers working with modern computer methods for design and management in the furniture industry, consultants, experts and organizers in the development of technological and innovation projects, as well as teachers in vocational high schools. In the bachelor's degree, engineering training is obtained, certified by a diploma of completed higher education, and they acquire the professional qualification "Computer technology engineer in the furniture industry". In the "Master" educational and qualification degree, managerial, specialized and methodological research disciplines related to the digitalization of furniture production are studied more thoroughly and at a higher level. The tuition takes place regularly.
  • Furniture Industry 4.0 (joint master degree program with Technical University - Gabrovo). Tutution in the speciality is carried out only in a master's program, a regular form of training. Graduates of the "Furniture Industry 4.0" speciality receive knowledge skills and acquire competencies for computer design and automated management of technological processes for furniture production, as well as technologies directly related to the digitization of the furniture industry. Graduates of the master's program are realized in all areas of the sector as technologists and designers, working with modern computer methods for design and management in the furniture industry; working in the field of automation and robotization of furniture companies; in consulting companies and companies specializing in the implementation of digital technologies, CAD/CAM/CAE and Internet-based systems in enterprises from the furniture industry. They also work as consultants, experts, organizers in developing technological and innovation projects, and teachers in vocational high schools.

Doctoral studies

In the Faculty of Forest Industry, PhD students are trained in the following accredited scientific specialities, and the training is carried out in full-time, part-time and independent form:

  • Ergonomics and Industrial Design;
  • Wood Science and Wood-Based Materials;
  • Machinery and Equipment in the Forestry, Logging, Woodworking and Furniture Industries;
  • Technology, Mechanization and Automation of the Woodworking and Furniture Industry.

Tutution in the Faculty of Forest Industry is carried out by thirty-eight highly qualified teachers, including nine professors, ten associate professors, fifteen chief assistant professors, and five assistant professors.

For conducting theoretical tuition and practical classes, the Faculty of Forest Industry has specialized laboratories for cutting wood and cutting tools, a training and demonstration centre for hand power tools, automation and production automation, a training and production centre for woodworking, a training and production centre furniture production, computer animation and virtual reality laboratory, BLUM training and

demonstration centre, mechatronics laboratory, door and window training and demonstration centre.

The faculty maintains close contacts with companies from the woodworking and furniture industry, in which it conducts practical training for students and uses it as a base for developing and implementing research projects.

In its long history, the Faculty of Forest Industry has built excellent relationships with related faculties and universities from many countries. The facts that illustrate his international authority are the participation of the professors in various scientific events abroad; scientific achievements, the winning competitions for projects financed by international foundations; the conferment of honorary titles, namely: members of IUFRO, members of the American Society of Forestry Engineers, etc. Graduates of the specializations from the Faculty of Forest Industry who work or have worked in foreign universities (USA, Canada, Sweden, Japan, Chile, France, Switzerland, Germany, etc.); participation in international projects under the TEMPUS, PHAR and Leonardo da Vinci programs; joint research projects with teams from foreign universities (Russia, Slovakia, Serbia and Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Greece, Switzerland, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary); provide scientific and technical assistance by our teachers to organizations and companies (Nigeria, Sudan, Lebanon, Slovakia, Republic of North Macedonia, Czech Republic, etc.); prizes, certificates and diplomas won by students and graduates of both specialities from international competitions and exhibitions.

At the moment, the Faculty of Forest Industry has accreditation and is training a total of 400 students, divided into 4 specialities, in full-time and part-time study (and for doctoral programs also independent study), in 3 educational and qualification degrees - "Bachelor", "Master" and "Doctor".

Dean's office

The faculty of Forest Industry is situated in the main building “A” of the University of Forestry, 2nd floor, room 221 and room 220 - inspectors

Faculty of Forest Industryis pleased to invite you to visit the stand of University of Forestry during international exhibitions"TECHNOMEBEL" and "WORLD OF FURNITURE"Hall 4, stand С12http://technomebel.bg/bg

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