About
An independent institute for the move to AI and cleaner energy
Foundation "Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation" is a Bulgarian public-benefit foundation. We produce and give away the practical knowledge organisations and the people who work in them need to move confidently into AI-supported work and cleaner energy.
1. Our mission
We help organisations in Bulgaria and across Europe — businesses, municipalities, non-profits, schools and universities — learn to work with artificial intelligence and data, and make the move to cleaner energy, by publishing independent, practical, method-transparent knowledge.
In practice that means three things. We research questions that organisations in Bulgaria and the wider region actually face. We turn the answers into usable artefacts: guides, checklists, methodologies and calculators rather than opinion pieces. And we publish the assumptions behind every number, so a reader can disagree with us on the evidence.
2. Why we exist
From analog processes and classic energy to AI and clean power — the same transition, twice over.
People who master the new tools are not replaced by them. Our job is to make sure nobody in Bulgaria, or anywhere in Europe, has to meet this change unprepared — so the region keeps pace with the United States and China instead of watching from behind.
3. How we work
Our resources are published at no cost and without a paywall.
Every calculation states its assumptions and its sources.
We do not sell installations, equipment, software or consultancy here.
Figures are grounded in Bulgarian irradiation, tariffs, regulation and grid conditions.
We treat the ethics of artificial intelligence as part of the engineering, not an afterthought.
4. Our statutory objectives
Recorded in the register; translated in full from the Bulgarian statute.
Support sustainable development, the green energy transition and the digital transformation of Bulgaria, through developing, promoting and applying innovative methods based on artificial intelligence, data analysis, energy efficiency, photovoltaic technologies and resource optimisation.
Encourage the development and responsible application of artificial intelligence, data analysis and digital tools for optimising production, energy and organisational processes.
Support a wide range of participants in the green energy transition through access to knowledge, methodologies, practical resources and good practice.
Encourage the adoption of solutions for energy efficiency, photovoltaic energy, and the monitoring and optimisation of consumption.
Develop educational and applied-research initiatives in artificial intelligence, photovoltaic technologies, energy storage systems, digitalisation and sustainable energy.
Create and distribute guides, checklists, methodologies, analyses and publications of public value.
Support interaction between business, science, the public sector and non-governmental organisations in order to accelerate the green and digital transition.
Encourage ethical and responsible approaches to the development and use of artificial intelligence.
5. Governance
By role, deliberately — the public register names the officeholders.
The Foundation is directed by a Board of Trustees (настоятелство) serving a five-year mandate, and represented by a Manager (управител). Both are recorded in the public register, which is the authoritative record of who currently holds those positions. No individual names appear on this page; that is deliberate.
How we are governed →6. Legal identity
Verify us at source rather than taking this page's word for it.
| Registered name | Фондация „Институт за устойчиво развитие и иновация“ | Register | Register of Non-Profit Legal Entities, Bulgarian Registry Agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| English name | Foundation "Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation" | Registered seat | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| ЕИК / UIC | 208908769 | Status | Designated to carry out public benefit activity |
| Legal form | Foundation (Фондация) | info@isdifoundation.com | |
| Profit | The Foundation does not distribute profit. | Entry | Verify our registration → |