The final stage of the BUCA IMSEF International Science Competition will take place on December 18, 2020 in Izmir, Turkey. In connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, 74 projects from 24 countries and 90 projects from 27 cities of Turkey will take part in the final stage of the competition for youth research projects, which will be held online on the ZOOM platform. Azerbaijan in this competition is represented by Raya Hasanli, a student of secondary school №16 named after Samad Vurgun in Mingachevir. Her project “Obtaining medicinal almond oil from bitter almonds”, implemented at acad.A.Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives, under the leadership of Deputy Director for Science, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor Afsun Sujayev, Researcher Mirali Isakov and School Director Sevinj Hasanova, will fight for the first place.