Romania wins one gold, seven silver medals at first Central European Olympiad in AI

24 July 2026 The Romanian delegation to the first Central European Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (CEOAI), held in Cluj-Napoca between July 14-19, won one gold medal and seven silver medals, according to the Ministry of Education. The event represented a historic moment for the international AI community, bringing together more than 90 contestants from over 20 European countries, along with invited delegations from around the world. During the competition, contestant had to design, train, and optimize their own artificial intelligence models, starting from completely new datasets and requirements. In the two competition days, students tackled problems in diverse fields, such as artificial intelligence model interpretability, optical character recognition (OCR), mathematical and physic