# Opening Keynote by Prof Dr Dimitar Dimitrov, Rector of UNWE | ETHSofia 2025

- Channel: [ETHSofia](https://streameth.org/ethsofia)
- Date: 2025-11-09
- Duration: 04:33
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-XdL_UlnbCwY
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdL_UlnbCwY

## Description

This video was recorded during the ETHSofia Conference and Workshops - September 24-25th, 2025.

ETHSofia is Bulgaria’s premier crypto event exploring Ethereum technology and blockchain innovation. In 2025, it’s set to unite builders, founders, researchers, investors, and crypto enthusiasts to collaboratively shape the future of Web3. 

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## Transcript

[Music] Dear ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, partners, friends, as Vladet GM, it's my great honor to welcome you uh to ETH Sophia here in the vibrant city of uh Bulgaria. here. This event brings together builders, founders, researchers, investors, and crypto enthusiasts united by the shared vision of uh to shape the future of web 3. At the University of National and World Economy, my university, we are proud to support such initiatives. As the largest economic university, we have about 18,000 students. Uh our mission is not only to prepare the next generation of business leaders but also to drive innovation in education and research. Uh with pride I can say that uh our university today holds distinguished place among Europe's universities in many different ratings and rankings. We are mount about 8th place in Eastern Europe. Uh also we are proud with our uh participation in one of the European alliances of universities engage EU with leading business universities uh uh in Europe. So we are active partners in this initiatives. Not only ETH but also we are preparing uh to establish and today maybe the council of ministers will take decision about creation of institute for artificial intelligence in economics uh in our university. So we think that economy could not be uh separated by the uh technologies and artificial intelligence. At the same time our university is a green university. We have a photovoltaex park and Bulgarian campus showing commitments to sustainability of our society. Uh we are proud of our legacy 12 prime ministers about 200 ministers who graduated in our universities and many successful business people. And I hope that some of you will also be on our wall of fame at the university. We believe that uh collaboration between academia, business and technology community is essential for progress. This is why we are delighted to be part of ETH Sophia and to contribute to the dialogue on the future of innovation and entrepreneurship. And uh finally in my speech uh maybe some of you know that uh in the past our university was called was named uh higher economic institute Karl Marx but anyway the knowledge uh and uh uh understanding of economy could not be uh put only in the times of Karl Marx. So we are driving these things as innovators in the education and among of these things we are we are having already established master program in cryptoeconomy and uh it's a unique program and bachelor program in cryptoeconomy in our university and here are some of our students in this room. So we try to develop constantly our knowledge and our understanding of what happened and uh because new instruments, new financial things and really finally our students are able to pay their uh fees in the university with with crypto. So again I wish you success to this interesting uh conference, inspiring discussions, fruitful partnership and successful conference. Thank you very much. [Applause] [Music]