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AZERBAIJAN &

YEMEN JOIN IFIA

FULL MEMBERS

During IFIA’s 20th Virtual Executive Committee meeting, organized on
29 August 2018, two newly-received membership requests from Bolivia
and Azerbaijan were examined and gained the majority of positive votes
from the participating members.

Azerbaijan Inventors (AZIN), a non-profit organization responsible for novel
research on sciences and supporting inventors, researchers, scientist and cre-
ative students in university and schools of Azerbaijan under the supervision of
Baku State University and also Azerbaijan’s Patent Office was admitted as IFIA’s
full member.

AZIN provides a plenty of practices to develop innovation and technology and fa-
cilitate the process of patenting them for individuals and entities. In addition, AZIN
attempts to introduce Azerbaijan’s Patents and Technology to the world and transfer
them globally.

The Technical University of Oruro (TUO), an institution of higher education, was accepted
as IFIA’s full member, as well. TUO aims to train qualified professionals in undergradu-
ate and post-graduate careers with high human quality recovering ancestral knowledge
through an academic offer of quality which stimulates the development of teaching, re-
search, extension, innovation and connection with the environment. One of TUO’s main mis-
sions is contributing to human development and sustainable development.

TUO carries out the development of science, technology and innovation through agreements
with various universities abroad. The TUO has patented products in the National Intellectual Prop-
erty Services of Bolivia.

During IFIA’s 18th Virtual Executive Committee meetings, organized on May 22 The Union of Arabian
Academics (TUOAA) was accepted to join IFIA members.

TUOAA aims at communicating, coordinating and exchanging ideas and experiences among academ-
ics, researchers and scientists in the Arab world. TUOAA works to unify the trends of research topics, to
achieve and implement the objectives of Arab scientific researchers in order to contribute to building and
achieving Modern Arab strategy.

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