INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO RESEARCH ON SOCIAL SUPPORT IN TIMES OF CRISIS

The monograph "Flexibility of Social Support in Times of Crisis (Experience and Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020–2022)" presents the results of a research project completed in 2025 research project, carried out within the framework of the research program of the Institute for Economic Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences by a team consisting of Prof. Georgi Shopov, PhD, head of the project, Prof. Petko Salchev, PhD, and Assoc. Prof. Teodora Peneva, PhD. The issues related to the analysis of various aspects of social protection in a scientific-theoretical or practical-applied context have always been the focus of diverse perspectives in scientific research and in the formulation of the main guidelines and specific forms and mechanisms of social policy.