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IFIA President Awards IFIA

Memorial Medal to IWIS

Sponsors

Inaugurated on 9 October 2017 in the Main Hall of the Warsaw University of Technology, the 11th annual of
International Warsaw Invention Show was successfully closed on 11 October. As in previous years, the event
was organized by the Association of Polish Inventors and Innovators in cooperation with the Polish Pat-
ent Office and the Warsaw University of Technology. The event also enjoyed the patronage of International
Federation of Inventors’ Association (IFIA) and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education among others.

The support and assistance provided by the Warsaw University of Technology as well as Ministry of Science
and Higher Education enabled the Association of Polish Inventors and Innovators to convene the inventors
around the globe in an international platform titled “IWIS”. IWIS provided the participants a unique chance
to showcase their innovative technologies, gain international recognition, meet technology buyers and
market their innovations.

To appreciate such a fruitful cooperation, IFIA President, Alireza Rastegar, conferred IFIA Memorial Medal to
the Rector of Warsaw University of Technology, Professor Jan Szmidt and Minister of Science and High Edu-
cation, His Excellency Piotr Dardziński on 9 October 2017 during the opening ceremony.

IFIA holds the conviction that private and governmental sectors need to join forces to realize the potentials
of young people who have an innate talent for invention and innovation. IWIS is an exemplary event where
the collaboration between various actors has made it feasible for the world inventors and innovators to ex-
hibit their innovative technologies and products and to be internationally recognized.

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