First stage results of competitions to be held within TEKNOFEST Azerbaijan announced

The first stage results of the technology competitions in preparation for the TEKNOFEST Azerbaijan Aerospace and Technology Festival have been announced.

Innovative projects that are distinguished by originality and potential for commercialization have entered the second stage of the competition.

We would like to inform you that TEKNOFEST Azerbaijan will be held for the first time in Baku on 26 – 29 May this year, jointly organized by the Turkish Technology Team Foundation (T3 Foundation), Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Ministry of Industry and Technology of the Republic of Turkey.

It should be noted that 1,000 teams were registered to participate in the competitions, which included 5,000 schoolchildren, students and individual entrepreneurs. The projects submitted to all competitions were evaluated by the jury on a 100-point scale. The evaluation is based on the presentation of an innovative idea, the problem statement, offering solutions, the availability of a product or prototype, and most importantly, projects that have the potential to be commercialized. According to the results announced, the total number of teams qualified for the second stage is 220.

Thus, in competition Robotics – 25 teams from Category A, 23 teams from Category B; in Green Technologies – 26 teams from Category A, 25 teams from Category B, 20 teams from Category C; in Agrarian Technologies – 24 teams from Category B, 16 teams from Category C; in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles – 14 teams from Azerbaijan and 6 teams from Turkey; in Socially Oriented Technologies – 24 teams from Category B and 17 teams from Category C have won the right to participate in the next stage.

It has to be noted that Category A includes high school students, Category B includes university students, and Category C includes startups and individual entrepreneurs.

It is to be recalled that except for Amateur Satellite Modeling (CanSat), Baku Skills and Sailplaner, all competitions were held outside the PDR (Preliminary Design Review) stage. 220 out of 523 teams that took part in the PDR stage have successfully qualified for the second stage.