Project competition

Where coursework meets industry.

The DataScience@UL-FRI Project Competition is an annual competition whose main goal is to connect students, academics and industry. Over the course of a semester, teams of students work on real-world data science problems guided by co-supervisors from academia and industry.

January

Topics and applications

Partner companies and the faculty publish project topics; students apply and teams are formed.

February – May

Work and mentoring

Each team works on a real problem, guided by co-supervisors from academia and industry.

May – June

Finals

The strongest teams are invited to present their work at the competition finals.

June

Results

A committee scores the finalists and the awards are announced.

2026 results

First place

Slovenian-Language OCR Benchmark

DS@FRI

Tjaš Ajdovec, Gal Dvoršak, Denis Nedić
Second place

Detecting and extracting multiple logos from a single image

PredictLeads

Dimitar Djorlev, Petar Mishov, Hristijan Jovanoski
Third place

Optimizing manufacturing processes with explainable AI

Medius

Erika Rosenfeld, Caio Simon, Diana Catana

Check out full results for the 2026 edition on the results page.

Project Competition 2027

Details for the 2027 edition — team registration, topics, and key dates — are yet to be announced.

Competition history