History of BAPT

Balkan Association of Power Transmission (BAPT)1 Founded on 14 May 2001 in Sofia, Bulgaria by: Bulgarian Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering (presented by Kiril Arnaudov, Dimitar Karaivanov and Damian Damianov); Technical Chamber of Greece and Association of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers of Northern Greece (presented by Athanassios Mihailidis from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki); Macedonian Union of Machine Elements and Design (MADEKO, presented by Dimitar Stamboliev and Kliment Trimchev), Yugoslavian Union of Machine Elements and Design (JUDEKO, presented by Vojislav Miltenović, Siniša Kuzmanović and Milosav Ognianović) and Mechanical Engineering Faculty of University of East Sarajevo (member of JUDEKO) – Bosnia and Herzegovina (presented by Momir Šarenac, nowadays presented by Biljana Marković). Balkan and not only Balkan countries have jointed the BAPT since foundation:

• In 2003 Romania (ROAMET presented by George Dobre); Slovenia (University of Ljubljana presented by Yože Hlebanja)
• In 2009 Kazakhstan (Kazakh National Technical University, Almaty, presented by Konstantin Ivanov)
• In 2012 Moldova (Technical University of Moldova, Kishinev, presented by Valeriu Dulgheru and Ion Bostan) In 2014 Ukraine (National Technical University, Kharkiv, presented by Alexander Ustinenko)

• 2003 in Varna, Bulgaria (Proceedings of Int. Conf. "Power Transmissions'03", Varna, 11 – 12 September 2003, 3 volumes. ISBN 954-90272-9-5);
• 2006 in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro (Proceedings of Int. Conf. "Power Transmissions 2006", Novi Sad, 25-26.04.2006, 548 p. ISBN 86-85211-78-6.
• 2009 in Kallithea, Greece (Proceedings of the 3rd Int. Conf. Power Transmissions’09”, edited by A. Mihailidis. Kallithea: Sofia Publications, 01-02 Oct. 2009, 656 p. ISBN 978-960-243- 662-2)
• 2012 in Sinaia, Romania (Power Transmissions, edited by G. Dobre. In: Mechanisms and Machine Sciences 13. Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg, New York, London,
• 2013, 746 p. ISSN 2211-0984; ISSN 2211-0992 (electronic); ISBN 978-94-007-6557-3; ISBN 978-94-007- 6558-0 (eBook);
• 2016 in Ohrid, Macedonia (Proceedings of the 5th Int. Conf. on Power Transmissions “BAPT2016”, edited by Petar Simonovski and Tashko Rizov. 5-8 Oct. 2016, Ohrid. Skopje: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, 2016, 253 p. ISBN 978-608-4624-25-7).
• 2019 in Varna, Bulgaria (Proceedings of the 6th Int. BAPT Conf. “Power Transmissions 2019”, MATEC Web of Conferences, Vol. 287, 2019).
• 2020 in Borovets, Bulgaria (Proceedings of the 7th Int. BAPT Conf. “Power Transmissions 2020”, MATEC Web of Conferences, Vol. 317, 2020).

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