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FEMAI-INNOVACITIES:

Two International Fairs

Jointly Organized in Brazil

each category were awarded with first and second place medals
and trophies. The project with the highest score in all categories
was awarded with the Grand Prize. Also the two best projects of
the InnovaHealth Innovation Hackathon which have developed
solutions using the Information and Communication Technology
were awarded. A project was also nominated to the Alireza Ra-
stegar Award (Young Innovator of the Future). According to the
classifications, the authors were conferred trophies, medals, inter-
national certificates, smart phones, and books edited in Paraná.

ABIPIR, UNIOESTE, ACIT and IFIA left as a legacy of the 9th Inno-
vacities International Business the Open Letter of TOLEDO. In this
The 9th annual of International Fair of Applied Science, Inventions, document, the diagnostic elements of the innovation challenges
Innovations and Business –INNOVACITIES - was held from 20 to 22 in the State of Paraná, suggestions for referrals and possible solu-
September 2017 in Toledo, Paraná, Brazil by ABIPIR and co-organized tions to the demands were identified during FEMAI-INNOVACID-
by UNIOESTE – State University of the West of Paraná. INNOVACITIES ADES. In the document, ABIPIR declares its willingness to contrib-
was simultaneously premiered with the 5th FEMAI – Machinery, Au- ute voluntarily to enhancing innovation in the State of Paraná and
tomation and Industry Fair held by Trade and Business Association of tri-national region in order to promote the sustainable territorial
Toledo (ACIT). development with competent organs and organizations.

Focusing on Innovative Business, Academia and Territorial Develop-
ment with an expressive brand of union of 55 partners, FEMAI-INNO-
VACITIES has become an immediate success. More than 4,000 visitors
were present during the three-day event including entrepreneurs,
inventors, students, teachers, development agencies, investors and
representatives of the Universities.

During the opening ceremony, a relevant Protocol of Intentions was
signed between State Secretariat for Science, Technology and Higher
Education of Paraná, ABIPIR and IFIA for registration of the Paranaense
System of Innovation in the IFIA International Circuit of Events.
At the end of the event, 45 projects from 18 competent institutions
were awarded in various categories. The highest rated projects in

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