pharmacy in Sofia and Varna and with the associations of medicine and dentistry at the Medical University - Plovdiv; participation in the organization of Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Days. Asclepius Youth Scientific Society The society was founded in 1990 with the aim of stimulating the scientific activity of young teachers and students in various fields of medical science. It is the successor of the student scientific society of HMI "I. P. Pavlov" and its dozens of workshops. The Society holds an annual conference for students and young scientists "Science and Youth", numerous practical seminars for students, supports international events for young scientists at the Union of Scientists - Plovdiv. Since 2005, the best scientific reports have been published in the eponymous Collected Papers, included in the National Reference List (NRL) of modern Bulgarian scientific publications (ID №2203; ISSN - 1314-9229 (print). Doctor Honoris Causa Other units Library The Library at the Medical University of Plovdiv started its activity alongside the inauguration of the newly opened State University in Plovdiv in 1945. Today, the Library and Information Centre includes the central library and four branch libraries (in the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Base 1 in the "St. George" University Hospital, Medical College and in the Student Dormitories) and provides a wide range of services to over 4,000 users - Bulgarian and foreign students, interns, doctoral students, teachers, employees, and external users. The library centre has a modern information technology infrastructure, equipment, and facilities. The functional library environment includes reading rooms, computer rooms, rooms for doctoral students, rooms for teamwork and a digitization studio. The library branches have 375 seats, of which 75 are equipped with computers. Library and information services are provided through an automated library system with integrated RFID technology, based on non-contact radio-frequency identification of objects. Since 2018, the modern system for the digitization of book collections - CopiBook Open System - has been operating. The library catalogue includes over 182,000 items (books, periodicals, and dissertations) on medicine, dental medicine, pharmacy and public health in Bulgarian and foreign languages. 8,090 of these resources are online journals, books and proceedings from licensed databases. University press Folia Medica Folia Medica (print-ISSN: 0204-8043; e-ISSN 1314-2143) is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary medical journal published every two months/bimonthly by the Medical University of Plovdiv in English. The first volume of 4 books was published in 1959 at the initiative of the then rector, Associate professor Dr. Todor