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Technical Culture Prof. Ante Markotić, .Ph.D Head of the Nikola
Tesla Innovation Centre Prof. Nedjeljko Perić, .Ph.D President of
the International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (IFIA) Mr.
Alireza Rastegar, Representative of International Delegations
Dr. Xuan Zengpei, Secretary-General of the China Association
of Inventions (CAI ) and Member of the Executive Committee
of IFIA, Husein Hujić, one of IFIA Directors and President
of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Association of Innovators,
Representative of Innovators from the Republic of Slovenia
Urška Fric, Representative of Innovators from Macedonia Mirko
Uzelac and President of the Union of Croatian Innovators Ivan
Bračić.
Over 200 participants and innovators attended the three-
day event and innovators from over 15 European and world
countries presented numerous premiere solutions in the
functional, design and content segments. The exhibition
gathered participants from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Serbia, Slovenia, Republic of Northern Macedonia, Czech
Republic, Poland, Germany, Turkey, I.R. Iran, Egypt, Kameron,
Syria, India, Indonesia, and China. It is important to mention
that a large number of exhibited innovations were presented by
young innovators attending elementary school, high school and
studying at faculties in almost all parts of Croatia.
At this year’s ARCA especially interesting was the ‘New
Technologies in the Blue Sector: Green Innovations in Croatian
Shipbuilding’ conference and the event program for all three
days included educational workshops for elementary school
students: creative and technical pop-up workshops, high
school robotic workshop, a lecture and workshop for students
of 1st Tesla Technical School held by a lecturer from Germany
Mr. Winfried Sturm. The exhibition also included lectures by
Tihomir Hodak, MSc titled ‘Intellectual Capital and its Increasing
Importance for Economic Development’.
At the 17th International Innovation Exhibition ARCA 2019
awards and acknowledgments were garnered by innovations in
the senior and junior categories. The ARCA 2019 Jury members
were President of the Jury Zoran Barišić, Husein Huić, Ljiljana
Markuš Cizelj, .Ph.D Rene Kajp, Krešimir Štih, Mihajlo Čizmić,
Marčelo Marić, and Zvonimir Vađon.
As many as 161 innovations entered the ARCA 2019, of which 35
in the junior category.
After considering all the entries and evaluating them according
to the standards of excellence, their expertise and the best

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