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ARCA 2021 WAS HELD IN

ZAGREB 14 -16 OCTOBER 2021

ARCA 2021 Report
THE UNION OF CROATIAN INNOVATORS HOSTED A PHYS-
ICAL INNOVATION EVENT (AGAIN)
The 19th International Exhibition of Inventions, ARCA 2021
was held in Zagreb 14.-16. October 2021.
ARCA 2021, The 19. International Exhibition of Inventions un-
der the auspices of the President of the Republic of Croatia,
Mr. Zoran Milanovic, was held in Zagreb 14. –16.2021. by The
Union Of Croatian Innovators (UIH).
This year’s installment of the exhibition was traditionally supported
by the Ministries of Economy and Sustainable Development; Sci-
ence and Education, the Croatian Chamber of Economy, the Uni-
versity of Zagreb, and the Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovation,
and Investments. It should be of special notice is that this year’s
ARCA, although held in a somewhat reduced format, like the year
before, still drew the attention of all national media. At the open-
ing ceremony, Dr. Miljenko Simpraga, Vice-Rector for Innovations,
Technology Transfer and Communications of the University of Za-
greb, and the President of the Union of Croatian Innovators, un-
derlined the necessity for the community of innovators, especially
the R&D institutions, to pay more attention in the development of
social inventions, in order to raise human behavior standards as-
sociated with answering the global challenges.
Having in mind that ARCA 2021 is listed as one of the Main IFIA
Events, the number of presented innovations was significant, both
presented by domestic Croatian inventors as well as international
ones, mainly from Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iran, Tur-
key, Northern Macedonia, China, and Poland. In total, around 200
innovations were exhibited.

A marked number of innovations presented were contributed by
youth, comprising students of technical secondary education insti-
tutions, as well as university students. For the youth, including the
youngest group of elementary school age, ARCA 2020 featured a

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