Virtual No 2, August 2015

During the Second Virtual Executive Committee meeting held on 18 August 2015, the membership requests of the following associations were presented:

1- Istanbul AYDIN University – Turkey (Corresponding Member)
2- Anatolian Inventions and Inventors Association – Turkey (Full Member)
3- The First Institute of Canadian Inventors – Canada (Full Member)
4- Inventors club of Georgia – Georgia (Full Member)
5- Iraqi Inventors & Innovators Society (Corresponding Member)
6- United Arab Emirates University, UAE (Collaborating Member)

Moreover, organization of the upcoming events was examined by EXCO members:

• Istanbul International Invention Fair (ISIF) 3-6 March – Istanbul, Turkey
• Egypt invent 8- 10 March – Elgezira Cairo, Egypt
• Young creative 6-7 September – Fayoum, Egypt
• Moscow International Inventions and Innovative Technology Salon 29th of March to 1st of April – Russia

Fourteen out of twenty EXCO members cast a positive vote on the membership of above-mentioned events and associations, namely:

Dr. Mladen Karic, Bosnia
Dr. Marcelo Vivacqua, Brazil
Mr. Zoran Barisic, Croatia
Mrs. Vivi Aakjaer, Denmark
Mr. Winfried Sturm, Germany
Mrs. Elinora Inga S., Iceland
Dr. Aynampudi Subbarao, India
Mr. Hossein Vaezi, I.R. Iran
Prof. Hazim J. Al-Daraji, Iraq
Mr. Joel S. Momodu, Nigeria
Dr. Hassane Idrissa Souley, Niger
Dr. Virgilio Malang, Philippines
Mr. Fernando Lopes, Portugal
Dr. Ana Hafner, Slovenia

In addition, the organization of IFIA Extraordinary General Assembly upon the convocation of IFIA President to discuss IFIA Statutes amendment was announced to the members.