Creativity & Innovation

GENIUS - EUROPE

 International Fair of Inventions and Competition of Graduates in Technical Field

Budapest Fair Center,  
9th - 13 th of September 2009

Refreshed: 23. 03. 2009

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

·         This will be a demonstration of the creativity and innovation, which are the best resources for a better world.

·         This event is connected with the “European Year of Creativity & Innovation”.

·         This event is connected with the 113th Budapest International Fair (BNV).

·         Presentation of new inventions  and graduates' works

·         A competition for inventors  to be based on the spirit of the Intellectual Olympiad.

·         A competition for creative graduates in technical field

·         A marketplace of inventions.

·         Exhibition area free of charge for the collective presentation of IFIA members and Hungarian independent inventors and graduates.

·         There will also be a virtual exhibition (http://www.inventor.hu).

·         To be held simultaneously an International Conference: “Science, Creativity and Innovation”.

  

Definition of the GENIUS-EUROPE:

 

This is the sixth GENIUS, a competition of inventors, students and a solemn event in Budapest on the occasion of the European Year of Creativity & Innovation as well as on the Internet at: www.inventor.hu. This is simultaneously a market place of inventions  made on the basis of patents.

 

Organized by: The Association of Hungarian Inventors (MAFE) and the International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (IFIA)

 

The Association of Hungarian Inventors (MAFE) is a non-profit, public welfare organization. It was refunded in 1989 in the beginning of democratic transformation period. Between 1945 and 1989 under the communist regime the inventors did not have any organization in Hungary. The Association is a member of the International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (IFIA).

 MAFE represents more than 5 000 inventors and MEFE has eight hundreds active members. The President of the Association is Csaba Szántay, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, one of the most famous Hungarian scientists and inventor. The Secretary General is András Vedres, the President of IFIA

 

IFIA is the universal acronym for the International Federation of Inventors' Associations, a non-profit and non-governmental organization created in 1968. Today, IFIA has near 300 members from more than 80 countries. It is the only organization which groups inventors associations worldwide, and as such a unique spokesman for inventors.

IFIA enjoys observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a member of the Standing Advisory Committee before the European Patent Office (SACEPO), in Munich, Germany.

IFIA's objectives are to improve the status of inventors at national and international levels, and to promote cooperation between inventors associations.

 

General Director of GENIUS:

VEDRES, András

Mailing address: P.O. Box: 319, H-1591 Budapest, Hungary

Tel.: + (36 20) 945 80 78; Fax: + (36 1) 422 0936

Internet: http://www.inventor.hu

E-mail: ifia@inventor.hu

  

The previously organized GENIUS events in Budapest:

 

MAFE had organized the first GENIUS International Fair of Inventions to commemorate the centenary of the Hungarian Patent Law in 1996. More than 300 inventions from twenty countries were exhibited.

 To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the creation of the International Federation of Inventors' Associations (IFIA), MAFE had organized second GENIUS - First Inventors' Olympiad - International Fair of Inventions, and Jubilee IFIA GA with world conference in 1998. Inventors participating in this event came from nearly fifty countries. Some fifty thousand people visited the exhibition.

 The third GENIUS was in 2000 on the occasion of the Hungarian Millennium presented 439 inventions from 39 countries.

 MAFE had organized the fourth GENIUS exhibition in 2002. The message of this event was the importance of environmental protection. More than 300 environmental inventions from 80 countries (IFIA collection of 1000inventions) were good evidences.

 The fifths GENIUS had been organized on the occasion of the European Union’s enlargement in 2004. There were thousand inventions and works of art together presented.

 The sixth GENIUS (2006) had been organized on the occasion of the opening of the IFIA Office in Budapest (420 items from 20 counties).

 

Site and date: Budapest, Fair Center, 9th to 13th September 2009

The Budapest Fair Centre lies on an area of 36 hectares. It welcomes partners on a 60 000 sqm gross indoor exhibition area and 50 000 sqm free area. The Budapest Fair Centre provides an environment of high quality and excellent standard as well as reliable services for nearly 30 exhibitions and venues a year. Its areas are suitable for organizing meetings for 15-50 participants, conferences for a few hundred attendees, or even congresses for several thousand participants.

Address: 1101 Budapest Albertirsai út 10. (Expo tér 1.)

 

Participation conditions:

Inventions can be exhibited only if they have been invented, or innovated less than five years ago or were not used earlier than five years ago, independently of the patent protection form or the territory where the protection is in force. In this respect all technical creations are considered to be an invention, including the industrial designs, new species of plants or animals and the computer software that have a strictly technical application.

The foreign graduated university student participants must be members of an IFIA delegation only. Their works will be evaluated separate.

If inventor(s) would like to participate in the GENIUS competition, he/she/they has/have to send information about his/her/their invention in the following form:

 

Invention Entry form

1. The Invention (title)

·         The problem to be solved: (maximum 3 lines)

·         Definition: (maximum 3 lines)

·         Presentation: (maximum half side + illustration)

·         Application: (maximum 3 lines)

·         Advantages: (maximum 3 lines)

·         Stage of development: (some words)

·         Documentation available: (some words)

2. The inventor(s) 

·         Name(s): (with portrait/s)

·         Self introduction: (maximum 3 lines)

3. The protection (some words)

·         Form:

·         Priority:

·         Countries where it is in force:

4. Business intention (maximum 3 lines)

5. Contact

·         Name:

·         Phone:

·         Fax:

·         E-mail:

·         Mailing address:

 

The submitted works of graduated university student would like to participate in the GENIUS competition, he/she/they has/have to send information about his/her/their work in the following form:

 

Diploma Work Entry form

1. The diploma work

·         Title: (maximum 3-5 words):

·         Specialization in technical field (words; e.g. chemistry, physics, engineering etc.)

·         Definition: (maximum 3 lines)

·         Presentation: (maximum half side + illustration)

2. The creator 

·         Name:

·         Self introduction: (maximum 3 lines):

·         University and faculty: (denomination):

3. The date and place of creation (some words):

·         Date:

·         Country, city:

4. Contact

·         Name:

·         Phone:

·         Fax:

·         E-mail:

·         Mailing address:

 

The applications must be collected and submitted by an IFIA member organization. The deadline for submission is June 30, 2009. Send it by E-mail: genius@inventor.hu (attach plain text file format and JPG file in 72 dpi only) or mail to: P.O. Box: 426, H-1519 Budapest, Hungary.

 

Facilities:

 

IFIA members (inventor, creator organizations) are entitled to get  a 2 square meters carpeted show area per invention or work of university student (consisting of a wall, showcase) free of charge; limitation maximum 16 items per one IFIA organization. Deadline of booth reservation is: May 31, 2009.

The evaluation, the jury and the awards:

The judgment of the inventions takes place on the basis of the “Invention Entry”. The inventions will be evaluated according to their inventiveness (with weighting of 35 %), possible future benefits (with weighting of 35 %) and quality of display and presentation (with weighting of 30 %). The winner in each section will receive GENIUS-EUROPE prize. The other qualified inventors will receive GENIUS medals.

 The Sections of the GENIUS

Inventions, grouped according to the International Patent Classification:

- Section A-1: Human Necessities I. (e.g. agriculture, foodstuffs, personal or domestic articles)

- Section A-2: Human Necessities II. (e.g. health, amusement, sports, games etc.)

- Section B: Performing Operations, Transporting (e.g. separating, mixing, shaping, printing, transporting etc.)

- Section C: Chemistry, Metallurgy

- Section D: Textiles, Paper

- Section E: Fixed Constructions (e.g. building, mining etc.)

- Section F: Mechanical Engineering, Lighting, Heating, and Weapons

- Section G-1: Physics I. (e.g. instruments, photography, cinematography, musical instruments, nucleotics etc.)

- Section G-2: Physics II. (e.g. controlling, computing, computer software that have a strictly technical application, educating)

- Section H: Electricity

 

The judgment of the works of graduates takes place on the basis of the “Diploma Work Entry Form”. The works will be evaluated according to the professional level  (with weighting of 35 %), the level of inventiveness (with weighting of 35 %) and quality of display and presentation (with weighting of 30 %). The winner in each technical fields will receive  GENIUS-EUROPE prize. The other qualified creators will receive GENIUS medals.