By Trend

Baku hosted an award ceremony for participants and teams of the TEKNOFEST International Aviation, Space and Technology Festival, Trend reports.

Schoolchildren, students, startup developers and entrepreneurs took part in these competitions.

The awards were held at the Smart Qarabag Hackaton and Baku Open Cyber Cup competitions, the European Esports Championship-2022, Agro Tech (agricultural technologies), unmanned aerial vehicles and green technologies, Baku Skills, Planer, social oriented technologies.

All participants of the TEKNOFEST, as well as mentors were awarded cash prizes and valuable gifts.

TEKNOFEST International Aviation, Space and Technology Festival is being held in Azerbaijan from May 26 through May 29.

TEKNOFEST in Baku is held by the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of Azerbaijan. At the same time, the TEKNOFEST production office operates in Baku. The full staff of the office consists of Azerbaijani specialists.

The event has been held annually since 2018, with the joint organization of the Turkish Technology Team Foundation, which is managed by the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology and the technical director of Baykar Makina, in partnership with more than 60 Turkish state institutions, universities and private companies.

The goal is to popularize such areas as aviation, space industry and digital economy, to encourage entrepreneurship in these areas, to identify the knowledge and skills of young engineers through competitions organized within the framework of the festival, as well as to present national technologies to the general public.

Trend News Agency, Day.Az, Milli.Az, Azernews, Eastweststream, Today.Az and Turkic.World are official media partners of TEKNOFEST.