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IFIA Magazine March 2025

Daily media reports reveal all too clearly that the world is out of joint, peace is at risk and tolerance
is being sacrificed to a national mindset. In order to counteract this negative and worrying
development, this should be made possible through close cooperation between IFIA and DEV.

The aim is to explore guidelines on
how innovations can have a positive
impact on social structures in order
to strengthen mutual understanding,
tolerance and acceptance. The
international association is intended
to provide a bridging function between
government bodies and national
inventor institutions that has so far
been largely lacking. International
cooperation should be facilitated,
mutual understanding promoted
and national, cultural and religious
barriers overcome.

Such initiatives, especially for young
people, with the focus on building bridges to overcome national, cultural and religious barriers,
are repeatedly praised by foreign and German ambassadors as successful «short-distance
diplomacy» that often achieves more than discussions at a high political level. Conclusion: We are
not only responsible for what we do, but also for what we don’t do!

well-trained engineers
and scientists. In addition,
new impulses and ideas
that should be discovered,
promoted and reinforced
as early as possible in the
inventive minds of young
«doers». This intention is
particularly strong in Asian
countries. What could
be more obvious than
giving creative tinkerers in
inventors’ associations the
opportunity to use their
The future of all nations - this is no secret in Germany either - lies creativity to strengthen
largely in the untapped resources of innovatively thinking visionaries, and realize motivation for
whose creativity must be recognized and not left unused. This requires innovative ideas.
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