Ref.No.: VA008/18/02/2009

Circular No 8

Dear IFIA member,

The IFIA 40^th Birthday Jubilee Year was closed. It was unforgettable and fantastic year! The main celebration in Suzhou was the greatest innovation event of the history thanks to your activity and support of the China Association of Invention. Our world federation meets with new challenge in year 2009. This is the world economy crisis. The IFIA answer is: more inventors – more inventions – wide innovation and general prosperity! Therefore our activity must be more efficient and more professional.

Information

1.) The new ExCo members were elected by the IFIA General Assembly 2008 in Suzhou:

Lennart Nilsson, Sweden

Mohammed Al-Fawzan, Saudi Arabia

Octavian Plesa, Romania

Pavao Havlicek, Croatia, EIN

Virgilio Malang, Philipines

Vladimir Petriasov, Russia

Wouter Pijzel, Holland

Adam Rylski, Poland

Alireza Rastegar, Iran

Augustine S. H. Ong, Malaysia

Fan Mingyi, China

Gerard de Villeroche, France

Hussein Hujic, BIH

Idrissa Hassane Souley, Niger, AIN

Joel Shaka Momodu, Nigeria

2.) The IFIA members’ main activity is proposed to select and to present the new inventions on official IFIA exhibitions decided by IFIA ExCo. Here is the list of official IFIA exhibitions where free or reduced cost booths for our members are provided by the appropriate organizer:

1. KIWIE Korean International Women Inventor Exhibition - May 1-5, Seoul

2. ITEX - May 15-17, Kuala Lumpur

3. IWIS  - June 2-4, Warsaw

4. Al-Basel International Invention Fair - July 15-20, Damascus

5. Inventors' World Cup - September 4- 6, Sangeorgiu -Romania

6. GENIUS - EUROPE International Fair of Inventions - September 9-13, Budapest

7. ARCA International Fair of Inventions - September 16-20, Zagreb

8. IENA - November 5-8, Nuremberg

9. SIIF Seoul International Invention Fair - December 3-9, Seoul

The exhibition No 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are authorized events of European Union project “Year of Creativity & Innovation”. You have two possibilities: to show your inventions on separate booth organized by yourself or to present your items on collective IFIA booth organized by IFIA Office. Send please your application as soon as possible to ifia@inventor.hu one month before the selected exhibition.

3.) According to the decision of GA the member fee system is changed. The sum of your member fee will be determined by your offer. I hope your member fee offer will be higher than the original amount. Please remit your member fee to the IFIA bank (Swift Number : UBSWCHZH 12 B ♦ IBAN: CH15 0027 9279 C8-108.868.2). Then IFIA Office will send to you the appropriate document about your payment.

I hope your organization will participate on IFIA events and you will send your member fee to contribute to the success of the IFIA.

Sincerely yours,

András VEDRES the President