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IFIA Magazine - Mar ch 2021 |

associations and societies worldwide.
This year, due to the recent pandemic of COVID19-, The International & European Association
Awards had to adapt their system to the new circumstances. All the nominations were submitted
online, and the functionality of the system enabled them to use scoring and weighing in the
judging – moving away from a ranking approach. This rigorous scoring approach has been highly
appreciated by the judges and enabled them to fix a threshold score above which nominations
go through to be one finalist. Previously it was the top three in ranking that went through.
The number of nominations received this year was %50 higher than previous awards, and
the sophisticated tracking and emailing system was part of how it was achieved. The judges
remarked on this year’s entries as being nearly all very good, making judging more challenging.
This year, The International Federation of Inventors’ Association has submitted the organization
as a nominee to The International & European Association Awards 2020. In around 20 categories,
IFIA has been nominated for the award of The International Association of the Year. IFIA
owes this accomplishment to expanding the scope of its activities in the past years through
its operations and has fulfilled its assignments. Lately, IFIA has submitted the documents of
the things that have been done to The Association of Association Executives, and eventually,
because of the achievements and the expansion of invention culture, we were nominated in
The International & European Association Awards.
Recently, we have been informed that happily, IFIA is now among the finalists of the mentioned
category.
After all, as the representative of the inventor and innovator society, we hope that by achieving
this award, we would make our beloved and creative society proud once more.

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