25 | 04 | 2022
World Intellectual Property Day – 26 April, 2022 IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future
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This year's World Intellectual Property Day will be celebrated under the motto "Intellectual Property and Youth: Innovation for a Better Future", and the State Intellectual Property Office wants to draw public attention to the value and importance of innovation and creativity of young people.
Celebrating this year's World Intellectual Property Day recognises the enormous potential of young people as an inexhaustible source of ingenuity and creativity in finding new and better solutions that support the transition of humanity to a sustainable future. Around the world, young people are ready to respond to innovation challenges, using their unique worldview, energy and ingenuity, curiosity and creativity to pave the way for a better future. Innovative, energetic and creative minds help activate the change we need to move towards a more sustainable future.
There are many inspiring examples of creative and innovative young people in Croatia. Mate Rimac, Ivan Mrvoš (Steora), Albert Gajšak (CircuitMess), Ivan Golubić, Frano Živković, Alan Sumina and Zoran Vučinić (Nanobit), to mention just a few of them, are a pledge of our better future.
This year’s World Intellectual Property Day is an opportunity for young people to learn how intellectual property rights can support their goals, help turn their ideas into reality, generate income, create jobs and positively impact the world around them. In addition to intellectual property rights, young people have access to some of the key tools they need to advance their ambitions.
Recognising their potential and importance for a better future together, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) has been paying special attention to young people for many years now. Wishing to instigate their creative and innovative potential and to get them acquainted with the protection of their creative works and innovations as intellectual property, we have organised and held numerous educational and promotional activities for them. One of the SIPO’s most prominent activities, which is also internationally recognised as an example of best practice, is certainly the project intended for children and young people of school age – Intellectual Property Day for Children and Youth, held under the motto “Be Creative, Be Innovative, BE a GIANT” „Budi kreatIVan, Budi inovatIVan, BUDI DIV“. This project, realised within the cooperation with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and with organisational support by Croatian cities and counties, has started in 2017 and comprised six events so far (six Intellectual Property Days for Children and Youth) attended by more than 4100 primary and secondary school students from Zagreb, Varaždin and Varaždin County, Rijeka, Velika Gorica, Zadar and Čakovec. You can find out more about this activity here and the photo gallery is available at the following link.
The entire programme and events within these activities were prepared and held by the SIPO’s experts with the aid of creative forces of external associates and in cooperation with responsible authorities of the state administration and other institutions participating in a mechanism of coordination for the enforcement of intellectual property rights in the Republic of Croatia.
Preparation and implementation of these activities included a large amount of various educational materials on intellectual property for various ages of children and young people – cartoons, video games, short films and interesting quizzes – available to the public on the SIPO’s website that can be accessed here, and on dzivHR YouTube channel at the following link. On this occasion, we would especially like to highlight the video content about young innovators and creative persons (available here) and “M&A in IP World" mobile application as the first such application for children in Europe. More on the application can be accessed at the following link.
For the occasion of this celebration, and in cooperation with University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electric Engineering and Computing, the SIPO prepared also a video about young innovative people, students and researchers from this faculty who are working on the development of new technologies and projects for the future. This content will be available on the SIPO’s website from 25 April, 2022 and we will inform you about it later.
As part of the celebration of this day, the SIPO invited young people to a competition for the best video work on the topic “Young and Innovative – We Change the Future for the Better”, about which you can learn more on the SIPO’s website.
The State Intellectual Property Office will keep on encouraging young people to be innovative and creative by educational and promotional events and by preparing educational tools and materials available to the public.
You can find more on this year’s World Intellectual Property Day on https://www.wipo.int/ip-outreach/en/ipday/ and www.dziv.hr.
For additional information on celebrating the World Intellectual Property Day and the activities implemented by the SIPO for children and youth, please feel free to contact the Service for Cooperation and Education in the Field of Intellectual Property and Communication of the SIPO (mobile phone: 099 2703510, e-mail:akademija@dziv.hr).
About the World Intellectual Property Day
World Intellectual Property Day has been celebrated at the instigation of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) since 2000, and April 26 was chosen as the date of celebration, since the Convention on establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization came into force on that day in 1970. Celebrating this date by organising various promotional, educational and informative activities around the world encourages the development and strengthening of public awareness of the meaning and importance of intellectual property in shaping everyday life and modern society, and in promoting creativity and innovation. This year, the State Intellectual Property Office is celebrating this day with appropriate activities, thus emphasising the role of the intellectual property protection system as one of the drivers of economic, cultural, scientific and overall social development.