Eazi Start Startup Center

the establishment of a startup center for the realization of students’ creativity and initiatives at azerbaijan state oil and industry university was initiated by rector mustafa babanli in the autumn of 2015. named as “eazi start”, the center includes a startup school, a coworking space, and a laboratory. at the startup school, as a first step, it was agreed to collaborate with experts from ukraine and israel in order to hold trainings providing the most creative students with basic knowledge about startup, invention, and business. the first stage lasted for six months - from january through to june 2016. partners and mentors of the center igor peer (be next it business incubator, israel) and inna malyukova (sikorsky challenge startup school and business incubator, ukraine) held trainings for participants. according to the program, during the first two months, group trainings included general information about startups and innovative business, whereas during the following two month