On May 14, 2026, in the hall H-205, the successful project defense by the student Cristiana Ots from the Instituto Europeu De Estudos Superiores, Fafe, Portugal, was held as part of her internship under the Erasmus+ program. She studied at the Department of Informatics during the summer semester of the 2025/2026 academic year on topics related to software modeling, user experience design and user testing. As a result of the internship, Cristiana modeled and developed a mobile application for planning a personal budget for students.

The student presented her project to a jury consisting of:

• Chief Assist. Prof. Radka Nacheva, PhD - internship supervisor from the Department of Informatics, University of Economics - Varna;
• Prof. José Paulo da Costa, PhD - internship supervisor from Instituto Europeu De Estudos Superiores, Fafe, Portugal;
• Chief Assist. Prof. Latinka Todoranova, PhD - Department of Informatics, University of Economics - Varna;
• Chief Assist. Prof. Bonimir Penchev, PhD - Department of Informatics, University of Economics - Varna;
• Chief Assist. Prof. Miglena Stoyanova, PhD - Department of Informatics, University of Economics - Varna.

We thank our colleagues from Portugal for their fruitful cooperation!

14 May 2026