On May 19, 2026 Akaki Tsereteli State University academic staff and students from the Faculty of Technical Engineering participated in the Eastern Partnership Innovation Competition within the framework of the Erasmus+ CBHE project LISS24 organized in Georgia on the premises of Georgian Technical University. The teams were formed by the participants of the local innovation competitions held in Georgian and Armenian universities. 11 student teams and 30 student participants from six LISS24 partner universities participated in the competition. Invited international experts provided teams with themes and challenges. Students worked in teams and created new solutions to proposed societal challenges. The event was organized to showcase the work completed during local-level innovation and sales competitions in Georgia and Armenia and to give the students an opportunity to meet their peers from other universities.

The teams from Akaki Tsereteli State University presented two projects: “Smart House,” and “Smart Waste Bin with Automatic Separation System”. The students are participants of the course “B2B Sales in Engineering” developed within the framework of the LISS project and now being offered as an elective subject for the VIII spring semester students majoring in “Construction” educational program at the Faculty of Technical Engineering. The next Eastern Partnership Innovation Competition will be organized in Armenia in June, 2026.

The project “Learn-Innovate-Sell-Succeed LISS24” aims to enhance B2B sales competencies and foster innovation capacities at universities in Armenia and Georgia, particularly in the field of engineering within the new digital era. The project is coordinated by Turku University of Applied Sciences (Finland).