Bulgarian student Maria Drencheva was selected from a pool of 2,500 young talents for a prestigious Swiss research program. The Student Summer Research Fellowship (SSRF) is organized annually by ETH Zurich, with just 20 places available to students from around the world.

Bulgaria ranked among Europe’s leading countries in terms of research presence at ECCV 2026, one of the world’s most prestigious conferences in computer vision and artificial intelligence. With 10 papers in the main conference programme, INSAIT at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” ranked 5th among EU research institutions by number of accepted papers.

Prof. Dr Eliza Stefanova, Rector of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski," welcomed Acad. François de Callataÿ, President of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium and Honorary Doctor of Sofia University, in his capacity as Vice President of the Board of the International Numismatic Council (INC).

Prof. dr. Svetlana Bialkova presented the talk “Anthropomorphic AI agency: The user perspective” at ReDAS, Responsible Decentralised Agentic Systems - special session hosted at the International Conference on Responsible Artificial Intelligence, IRAI2026 in Melbourne.