The Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was founded on the 1st of July, 2010 as a sucessor of Institute for Parallel Processing (IPP), Institute of Information Technologies (IIT) and Institute of Computer and Communication Systems (ICCS).

The Institute of Information and Communication Technologies is an active participant in a number of EC scientific programs TEMPUS, COPERNICUS, FP5, FP6, FR7, Horizon 2020 as well as in the scientific programs of NATO, Volkswagen Foundation, US National Science Foundation, the National Science Foundation of Switzerland, etc.. IICT-BAS is in active collaboration with lots of EU research institutions, as well as with universities and scientific units in Germany, Great Britain, France, Finland, Greece, Switzerland, Russia, USA, Ukraine, Japan, etc.