As already announced before, UFAZ will host the ActInSpace international hackathon on November 18-19, 2022. In view of the upcoming event, on November 10th, ActInSpace organizing committee of UFAZ held a warm up meeting with the participating teams from different universities and with experts 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 experts of ActInSpace Azerbaijan, UFAZ Computer Science Professor Samer El Zant made a presentation to UFAZ students about the essence and meaning of the start up projects, as well as the role of mentors in the hackathon.

Just to remind our readers, on Friday November 18 and Saturday November 19 CNES and ESA 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 34 countries and 66 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. More than 150 university students and 32 teams have already registered to participate in the competition. The winning team will be sent to Toulouse, France to represent Azerbaijan in the international finals in February.