Bulgarian and UD faculty members will work together to create workshops on teaching and curriculum for education students, and distance learning and other online opportunities that link the universities will be explored. UD will also pursue, through its institutional partners, technological support for hardware and software for the University of Sofia. Losito spent three months in Bulgaria in 1993 as the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to help develop a philosophy of education course at the University of Sofia. Its most recent history as a communist nation is also valuable, he said. In Bulgaria, the past is still not that far past.
Students can get a feel for the political and cultural structures that existed under communism.
In a sense, the country is still seeking a national identity. The University of Sofia, with about 19,000 students and 1,000 faculty members, is the national university of Bulgaria.