Seljan Karimli, a student of the Faculty of Information Technologies and Telecommunications of Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU), and Anabaji Amiraslanova and Omar Mammadzadeh, students of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Metallurgy, participated in the “First Azerbaijan International Investment Forum” held in Baku. The goal of the forum was to develop global cooperation, deepen regional economic integration, introduce favorable opportunities available in the country, as well as present the economic reforms implemented by the Azerbaijani government on an international scale.

Startups of AzTU students were also demonstrated in the “Agro Technology” section of the forum. In particular, this pavilion demonstrated automation of irrigation networks, sensor technologies, a single platform for selling plants produced using biotechnological methods, and software for intelligent management of agricultural activities. In addition, the startups presented a project aimed at obtaining environmentally friendly and economically profitable fertilizer through filtration from fish waste collected in water bodies and aquariums, a local GPS tracking system in livestock farming, the production of propanediol molecules in an ecological environment through biological fermentation, as well as a mobile application that allows for the identification of plant diseases, and other innovative ideas.