As already announced before, UFAZ will host the international hackathon ActInSpace on May 25-26 2018. In view of the upcoming event, ActInSpace organizing committee of UFAZ held a warm up meeting with the participating teams from different universities and with coaches in order to give a general idea of the event. The participating teams from the registered universities also took part in the meeting. One of the jury members of ActInSpace Azerbaijan, Mr Mammad Karim (founder of the "Khazar Ventures") made a presentation to UFAZ students about the essence and meaning of the start up projects for Azerbaijan. He stressed the importance of start up ideas in technology for future of the whole world.

Just to remind our readers, on Friday May 25 and Saturday May 26. CNES, ESA and ESA BIC Sud France will be organizing ActInSpace, the top international competition devoted to space applications. Midway between a hackathon and a start-up weekend, ActInSpace will be held concurrently in some 40 countries and 70 cities on all five continents. Open to entrants from all horizons, the competition aims to develop entrepreneurship and forge ties between space stakeholders and citizens by setting challenges for teams to solve based on patents, software, date or space infrastructures. ActInSpace was initiated by CNES in May 2014 (source: actinspace.org).