IFIA Jubilee General Assembly – 2008

18 October, 2008 - Suzhou, China

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The IFIA President had convened the IFIA General Assembly 2008 on the evidence of IFIA Statutes - Article 6 according to follows:

 Date: October 18, 2008 hour 9:00-12:00 

Venue: 5D Hall, Meeting Room of the International Expo Center, Modern Avenue, Suzhou, China

Agenda :

1.       Calling of the delegates:

List of the head of delegations (from 26 countries, bolt names have voting rights)

1. Al-Bannai Omar, KSC – Kuwait
2. Al-Fawzan, Mohammad, Mawhiba, Saudi-Arabia
3. Al-Rasheed, Khaled, IP – Saudi Arabia
4. Borak, Djuro, BAI – Serbia
5. Cabrera, Annibal R., AAI – Argentine
6. De Villeroch้, Gerard, FNAFI- France
7. Dlouhy, Pavel, CUIR – Czech Republic
8. Gulea, Aurelian Dr., MAIR – Moldova
9. Hafner, Ana, ASI – Slovenia
10. Hujic, Husein, SIBIH – Bosnia Herzegovina
11. Justs, Marek, LIA – Latvia
12. Lander, Jini, Yankee - USA
13. Lugosi, George, SITS – Australia
14. Malang, Virgilio L. Dr., MIDS – Philippines
15. Mingyi, Fan, CAI – China
16. Nilsson, Lennart, SUF – Sweden
17. Oh, Seung-teak Dr., KIPA – Korea, Rep. of
18. Ong, Agustine S. H. Dr., MINDS – Malaysia
19. Petriasev, Vladimir, ARH – Russia
20. Plesa, Octavian, AIR – Romania
21. Pyzel, Wouter, NOVU – Holland,
22. Rastegar Abbasalizah, Ali Reza, FIRI – Iran
23. Rausevic, Vojislav, UIH – Croatia
24. Rylski, Adam, SPWiR – Poland
25. Sanhory, Mohamed E., SGIU – Sudan
26. Souley, Hassan Idrissa Dr., ANPII – Niger
27. Sz๖ll๖sy, Jแnos, MAFE – Hungary

2.       Opening of GA by the President

3.       Approval of the Agenda

The delegates had been accepted this agenda

4.       Reports about the work of the IFIA members and the IFIA Office from the last GA (2006) – reported by delegates and IFIA President

1. IFIA Office Work in 2006 ,  2007, and first part of 2008: First International Inventor's Day, ExCo meeting (April 3, Palexpo-Geneva)

2. Delegates reported their work (2006-2008)

5.       Financial report of IFIA by the President and approval

The President reported the Balance sheet according to the decision of ExCo:

 

IFIA Balance sheet - year 2007
Balance sheet	2006.12.31	2006.12.31	2006.12.31	2007.12.31	2007.12.31	2007.12.31
	USD	EUR	HUF	USD	EUR	HUF
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents	9 594	6 335	0	19 149	6 783	43 285
Accounts receivable (Debtors)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Inventories	0	0	0	0	0	0
Prepaid expenses	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other current assets	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total assets	9 594	6 335	0	19 149	6 783	43 285
Liabilities
Balance	9 594	6 335	0	19 149	6 783	43 285
Accounts payable (Creditors)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shortterm provisions	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other current liabilities	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total liabilities	9 594	6 335	0	19 149	6 783	43 285
Account
Initial				9 594	6 335	-
Income				21 796	1 200	25 000 000
Expenses				12 241	752	24 956 715
Balance	9594	6335	0	19 149	6 783	43 285

 

IFIA Balance sheet - year 2007
Balance sheet	2006.12.31	2006.12.31	2006.12.31	2007.12.31	2007.12.31	2007.12.31
	USD	EUR	HUF	USD	EUR	HUF
Account
Initial				9 594	6 335	-
Income				21 796	1 200	25 000 000
Expenses				12 241	752	24 956 715
Balance	9594	6335	0	19 149	6 783	43 285

 

 

The delegates had unanimously approved this document.

6.       Working to year 2010 proposed by the President

Main events:

• 2nd International Inventors' Day

• World Cup of Inventions

Commercialization of inventions

• International exhibitions supported by IFIA (selected by the ExCo)

• Organization of the IFIA Technology Transfer Center (prepared by the ExCo)

Information

• Conferences and seminars (selected by the ExCo)

• Internet

7.       Debate on IFIA working program

• 2nd International Inventors' Day

Proposal was received by the NRCT (February 2 - Bangkok, Thailand). Support is free of charge 3x3 booth/exhibitor.

• World Cup of Inventions

Proposal was received by  the AIR (September 16-20 - Sangeorgiu Mures, Romania). Support are free of charge 2x6 booth/exhibitor and free hotel accommodation for leader of exhibitor

8.       Decisions concerning the IFIA working program

Decisions which were approved by GA:

1. Because there is political scandal in Bangkok the President must decide the acceptance Bangkok invitation until first of December finding other applicants for organization the 2nd IID.

2. The GA was accepted the invitation of AIR to organize World Cup of inventions in Romania.

9.       Resignation of present ExCo

The President declared that the mandates of the ExCo members who had been elected in 2006 are expired.

The IFIA President expressed the thanks to the ExCo members who had been elected in 2006 and handed over IFIA Outstanding Service Medals to the next IFIA leaders:

Adam Rylski dr. – SPWiR

Augustine S. H. Ong – MINDS

B้la Boros – South Pacific Innovation Transfer Society

Gerard A. De Villeroch้ – FNAFI

Idrissa Hassane Souley dr. – ANPII

Lennart Nilsson – SUF

Mohammed Al-Fawzan – MAWHIBA

Omar Al-Bannai – KSC

Wouter Pijzel - NOVU

 

10.   Election of new ExCo

1. The new ExCo be real working group no representative body of IFIA. The ExCo members be good organizers with cooperation  ability - proposed Lennart Nilsson (Sweden)

2. The members of the new ExCo be 15 representatives instead of 11 one - proposed the President

 

The delegates had unanimously approved these 2 proposals.

 

The GA was elected the next representatives of IFIA members as ExCo members with mandate to 2010:

1. Mr. Adam Rylski, Poland
2. Mr. Alireza Rastegar, Iran
3. Mr. Augustine S. H. Ong, Malaysia
4. Mr. Fan Mingyi, China
5. Mr. Gerard de Villeroche, France
6. Mr. Hussein Hujic, BIH
7. Mr. Idrissa Hassane Souley, Niger, AIN
8. Mr. Joel Shaka Momodu, Nigeria
9. Mr. Lennart Nilsson, Sweden
10. Mr. Mohammed Al-Fawzan, Saudi Arabia
11. Mr. Octavian Plesa, Romania
12. Mr. Pavao Havlicek, Croatia, EIN
13. Mr. Virgilio Malang, Philipines
14. Mr. Vladimir Petriasov, Russia
15. Mr. Wouter Pijzel, Holland

11.   Others

1. The first ExCo meeting will be organized in Budapest: January 8-10 2009 and the second one will be in in the second part of the year 2009 - proposed by the President.

2. The venue and the date of next IFIA GA (2010) will be determined by IFIA ExCo - proposed by the President.

3. The member fee is low. It is based on individual conventions which was determined many years before. The best way of the rise of the member fee is the spontaneity. Each IFIA member pay raised member fee according its financial conditions in 2009 - proposed by Omar Al-Bannai (Kuwait).

 

The delegates had unanimously approved these 3 proposals.

12.   Closing of the session by the President

 Photos

General Assembly - Wouter Pijzel's remark	The elected new ExCo

Further events in Suzhou

The China Association of Inventors, Suzhou Local Government and IFIA organized the "Inventor Festival" (16-20 October, 2008 - Suzhou, China. This event was the main celebration of 40th birthday of the IFIA. The further parts of the "Inventor Festival" were:

• 6^th International Exhibition of Invention - China, Suzhou

This exhibition was the greatest innovation show of the history. Chinese participants presented 2500 inventions and other IFIA members from 40 countries exhibited near 700 inventions by more than 300 delegates. > > > IFIA members' presented inventions > > > exhibitor list and booth directory   > > > IFIA Jury 

The IFIA organized 4 special shows connected to this exhibition: "IFIA Story", "Inventions of Cartoonists", "Inventors and Inventions on Stamps" and "Computer Implemented Inventions"

• Final of the World Cup of Computer Implemented Inventions - Sponsored by Microsoft 

There was the part of the 6^th International Exhibition of Invention - China this final > > > more information. The participants had been shown 43 items. The world championship is professor Wang Yongmin (China). His invention is: Mouth with Microcomputer - "Chinakey"

• IFIA Conference "The Future"> > > program