As reported, Rovshan Abbasov, Head of the Department of Geography and Environment at Khazar University, is currently a visiting professor at Florida State University. During this visit, Rovshan Abbasov is holding numerous meetings.

On February 15, Rovshan Abbasov met with James Hunt and Andrew Brady, Director of the FSU Institutional Research Center. The main directions of FSU development, statistics of students and research work were discussed at this meeting.

On the same day, Rovshan Abbasov met with Brent Edington, Director of the Research Commercialization Center. Mr.Edington gave detailed information on the commercialization of FSU research findings and the establishing of start-ups.

On February 16, the first meeting took place with Kerry Peluso, FSU Vice President of Research, and Pamela Ray, Leader of the Sponsored Research Group. Pamela Ray spoke about the main grants, awards and their sources received by FSU, research project proposals and their management, and the role of project teams in the development of the received grants.

Then Rovshan Abbasov participated in a seminar on "How to find financial resources for research" organized by Carolyn Bradley, Director of the Research Development Center. In this system, each university employee creates his own profile and accesses an information network called "My financial sources". This information network provides each profile owner with relevant information.