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IFIA Magazine
March 2023

This article aims to focus on the urgent need
to help save our planet. We are obliged to
do everything we can to achieve this. Above
all, we must take care of nature with new
innovative inventions. Every nation needs
the minds of all inventors, especially young
ones, to realize a hopeful future.
The current earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
show once again our helplessness in the
face of the powerful forces of nature.
Instead of falling into resignation and de-
spondency, we should let ourselves be guid-
ed by the inexhaustible creativity to realize
visions and innovative inventions to help our
planet.
Of particular importance here would be
so-called green inventions. These include,
above all, developments to save energy, re-
duce air pollution and reduce fossil fuels.
Given the Turkish-Syrian earthquake, re-
search should also be conducted on even
more earthquake-resistant construction
methods for optimal precaution. Important
are also further developments for aftercare
immediately during or after an earthquake,
whereby sensor-based gas, electricity, and
water shutdowns are possible, as was real-
ized by a Romanian inventor with the sys-
tem “iSentinel.” It is to be hoped that young
inventors will continue to positively influ-
ence the future of our planet with innovative
ideas. Important will be the continuous close
involvement of young inventors in the IFIA
family, which is already being implemented
since IFIA President Alireza Rastegard took
over the leadership of the International Fed-
eration Inventors’ Associations.
In my function as an international STEM-Am-
bassador (Science,Technology, Engineering,
Mathematics) I use the worldwide partici-
pation in international inventor exhibitions,
supported by foreign embassies, to establish
cooperation with schools and universities.

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