SOME OF THE RESEARCH GRANTS:

2009-2011 Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE), FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2009, Bulgaria project coordinator, 38 partners covering all European member-states

2008-2011 „High Level Semantic Retrieval in Web based Multimedia Systems”, common project between Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, project coordinator

2007 – 2009 “Towards a High Level Semantic Retrieval in Multimedia Systems”, common project between Italian National Research Council and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, project coordinator

2009 -2011 „Distributed labs for intelligent sensors design”, National Science Fond, Ministry of Education and Science, Bulgaria

2009-2011 “Automatic generation of metadata and standards for e-documents”, National Science Fond, Ministry of Education and Science, Bulgaria

2005 CETL Education travel grant

2004 CETL Education travel grant

1999 - 2001 INTELLECT (Intelligent Learning Environment for Course Telematics), INCO Copernicus projects of European Commission ($ 400 000).

2000 ASERC, Alberta Software Engineering Research Consortium, 86-1215 (University of Calgary).

1999 Multimedia Databases, National Foundation for Science Research of Bulgaria.

1996 - 1998 MATCh (Multimedia Applications for Telematics Educational Networks), INCO Copernicus projects of European Commission.

1996-1998 SJEP 07312-94: Development of an Inter-University, European Commission Program TEMPUS.

1994 - 1998 Multimodal Medical Information Program Environments, National Foundation for Science Research of Bulgaria.

1993-1994 Magnetic Resonance Images Segmentation, Terry Fox Programme Project grant from the National Cancer Institute of Canada,
NS-18954 National research center of Canada and Ontario Mental Health Foundation.

1992-1994 Motion correction in Magnetic resonance images;, Sterling-Winthrop Imaging Research institute, USA (RP2021 and RP2031),
MT 11574 Medical Research Council of Council of Canada and General Electric Medical Systems, Canada.

1991 Image Databases, NLM - Ep (1 R01LM 05007-01A10 National science center Holland.

1989-1990 Distributed Multimedia Systems, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

1988 "Image Coding", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

1986 A Multimedia Filing System;, European Commission Program for Research and Development in Information Technology,
Project 28 and Olivetti DOOR, Pisa, Italy.

1984-1986 "Office Automation Systems", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

1982 -1984 "Basic Software for Microcomputer Systems", Plant for Information Technique, Sofia, Bulgaria.

1981 "Medical Office Automation", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

1979-1980 "Office Automation Systems", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

1978 "A Software System for Data Correlation and Prognosis on Agriculture Flow", Institute of System Analysis, Vienna, Austria.

1977 "A Software System for Hanging Conveyer Design", Bulgarian -Hungarian Company INTRANSMASH.

1976 "Text Processing Systems", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

1975 Mathematical Software for Empirical Sociological Investigations", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.