Yossif Nunev was born in Rakitovo.
He graduated in pedagogy at the “St. Kliment Ohridski” University. Since 1984 until 1999 is a teacher, deputy director and director in the schools: OU “N. Rilski”, the village of Kostandovo and OU “Hristo Botev”, the town of Rakitovo.
During the period 1999-2001 is a civil servant in the National Council for Cooperation on Ethnic and Integration Issues at the Council of Ministers. Since 2001 until 2017 he works in the Ministry of Education and Science.
In 2003 defends the scientific degree “Doctor”, and in 2017 became an associate professor at VTU “St. Cyril and Methodius”. In 2020 after defending his doctoral thesis, he was awarded the scientific degree “Doctor of Sciences”.
Since 2006 he is a part-time lecturer at various universities in Bulgaria: Southwest University, Blagoevgrad; VTU “St. Cyril and Methodius”, Pedagogical College – Pleven.
For the period 2006-2023. over 200 short-term qualification courses have been held with teachers to work in a multicultural educational environment. Researcher in the field of successful cooperation in the multicultural educational environment, education of the Bulgarian Roma and author of Roma fairy tales for young and old, over 110 scientific articles, reports, studies, textbooks, teaching aids, monographs and collections of fairy tales for children.
The video was shot by project “Panorama of Roma culture” under the “Cultural Entrepreneurship, Heritage and Cooperation” program, with the financial support of the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area (EEF) 2014-2021.