Education and Research in the Information Society (ERIS) is an international conference in computer science, dedicated to the development of the information society.

The 17th edition of the international conference Education and Research in the Information Society will be held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in person and online.

This year’s conference will occur in two modules:
September 29-30, 2025 and
November 3-4, 2025.
Paper submission dates are August 31 for Module 1 and September 20 for Module 2.

It covers interrelated topics such as:

• Artificial Intelligence and its applications
• Big data management and data fusion
• E-learning and education support systems
• Image processing and machine vision
• Innovative systems for e-governance, e-health and e-libraries
• Large AI models and their implications
• Machine learning and knowledge discovery
• Natural language processing and information retrieval
• Serious games and virtual reality
• Social networks and security of the Web environment
• User modelling and user-adaptive systems
• Web technologies and cloud computing

Other topics relevant to education and research shaping the information society are also welcome.

The following conference tracks will be included in the program:

Module 1 – September 29-30, 2025

Reimagining Research Value in the Age of Open Science – Track chair: Assoc. Prof. Milena Dobreva, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
Please submit your abstract for this track by 25 August on https://forms.gle/Dt5gQJWMyBt4rUEBA
AI technologies in Education – Track chair: Prof. Ivaylo Staribratov, Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”
Forum of the Obsolete Jobs: Rethinking the Future of Work in the AI Realm(in Bulgarian) – Moderator: Albena Antonova, PhD, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Smart Technologies & Future Security Synergizing in the Post-Information Age – Track chair: Assoc. Prof. Zlatogor Minchev, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, BAS

Selected papers presented in these tracks will be invited for publication in the journals “Mathematics and Informatics” and “Cybernetics and Information Technologies”.

Module 2 – November 3-4, 2025

Fundamental principles and applications of neural networks – Track chair: Prof. Ivan Koychev, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Challenges and Trends in Educational Video Games – Track chair: Prof. Boyan Bontchev, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Accepted papers included in this module will be published in the Springer Nature book series “Proceedings of the International Neural Networks Society”.

The conference offers: 

• Possibility to publish your work.
• Useful feedback.
• Reasonable registration fees.
• State-of-the-art content.