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IFIA Mag azine Se p t ember 2018 IFIA Mag azine Se p t ember 2018

INVENT ARENA 2018 BRINGS OVER 4000

VISITORS & 380 INVENTORS TOGETHER

The second year of the International Exhibi- Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia, Russia,
tion of Technical Innovations, Patents, and Macedonia or Bosnia and Herzegovina), but
Inventions INVENT ARENA was held in Třinec also from more distant destinations, such as
from 20th to 22nd June 2018. Taiwan, China, United Arab Emirates, Saudi
Arabia or Indonesia.
The 2018 INVENT ARENA was held under
the auspices of Mr. Alireza Rastegar, the For three days, over 4 000 visitors could see
President of the International Federation more than 140 inventions and innovations
of Inventors’ Associations, the Ministry of which were signed up by over 380 inventors
Education, Youth and Sports, the Ministry for the best invention competition. The ex-
of Industry and Trade, the Czech Chamber hibits were judged by the international jury
of Commerce, the Czech Academy of Sci- of experts from among the organizers and
ences, the Technology Agency of the Czech representatives of foreign inventors’ organi-
Republic and Věra Palkovská, Mayor of the zations. The best innovations were awarded
City of Třinec. by the gold, silver and bronze medals or by
one of the special prizes.
This year’s Invent Arena was financially sup-
ported by the Moravian - Silesian Region, The Gold IFIA Medal was granted to ROTA-
the city of Trinec and by the Steel Union. PHONE, a new mechanical sensor system
and measurement method for detection of
Over 47 exhibitors from 22 countries all seismic ground motions.
over the world took part in the exhibition.
The larger part of the 1 500 m2 exhibition The Grand Prix winner was selected out
space belonged to the domestic exhibi- of the winners of the eight categories; the
tors. The second part was occupied by the prize winner was “Pipeline leakage detec-
foreign exhibitors, who arrived mainly from tion system” of ENV
other European countries (Poland, Slovakia,

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