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ENFSI Annual Meeting 2027 in CroatiaDear ENFSI Member Directors and Permanent Representatives,
on behalf of the ENFSI Board, the Forensic Science Centre “Ivan Vučetić” and the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 39th ENFSI Annual Meeting, which will take place in Zagreb from 18 to 21 May 2027. 05.10.2026. | Page

Croatian Forensic Science Represented Among Leading International Forensic Institutions in AntalyaThe 21st International Forensic Days, organised by the Council of Forensic Medicine of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Türkiye, were held in Antalya from 21 to 27 September 2026, bringing together leading experts and institutions from across the international forensic community. 30.09.2026. | Page

International 21st forensic medicine congres 16.09.2026. | Page

New Scientific Paper by the Forensic Science Centre Ivan Vučetić on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Forensic Authorship AnalysisA scientific paper titled “The Small Sample Challenge: Unsupervised Authorship Clustering in Croatian” has been published in Inventions (MDPI), an international scientific journal indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases, with an impact factor (IF) of 2.4. One of its co-authors is Andrea Ledić, PhD, Head of the Forensic Science Centre Ivan Vučetić. 10.09.2026. | Page

Participation of the Centre’s Forensic Examiners in the ICDAR 2026 International Conference in ViennaICDAR 2026 brought together international experts and scientists in the field of document analysis and recognition. Forensic examiners from the Centre attended the conference to follow developments in new technologies and their potential future applications in the forensic examination of handwriting and documents. 08.09.2026. | Page

New Research Article Published in the Journal of Forensic SciencesWe are proud to announce the publication of a new research article, “Forensic analysis of dominant versus non-dominant handwriting: Statistical and machine learning insights,” in the internationally renowned Journal of Forensic Sciences. 25.08.2026. | Page

Participation of the Centre in the IAFPA 2026 International Conference in TrierFrom 26 to 29 July 2026, the IAFPA 2026 international conference was held at Trier University in Germany, organized by the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA). The conference brought together experts, researchers and practitioners in the fields of forensic audio and speech analysis, forensic phonetics, speaker identification and related legal disciplines. 31.07.2026. | Page

Experts from the “Ivan Vučetić” Forensic Science Centre at Forensic Artificial Intelligence Conference (FAIC)An international conference dedicated to the application of artificial intelligence in forensic science was held in Dundee, Scotland. Experts from the Centre attended the event to keep abreast of the latest technological developments and to examine the professional, legal and ethical challenges associated with the use of artificial intelligence in forensic examinations. 14.07.2026. | Page

Participation of the Centre’s Experts at the 2026 IABPA European Training Conference “The Art of Blood”From 1 to 5 June 2026, the 2026 IABPA European Training Conference, entitled “The Art of Blood”, was held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 01.07.2026. | Page

Participation of the Centre’s Forensic Experts at the 14th ISABS Conference in DubrovnikFrom June 15 to 19, 2026, the 14th International Society for Applied Biological Sciences (ISABS) and the Mayo Clinic Conference was held in Dubrovnik. The conference brought together numerous distinguished experts, researchers, and Nobel Prize laureates, who presented research on the application of artificial intelligence in forensic sciences, medicine, genetics and anthropology. 01.07.2026. | Page