Scientific and Dissemination Mission

The International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA) is an non-for-profit non-government organization. The aim is to promote scientific and industrial interchanges between members of existing associations, standardization bodies, and fora, and to establish bridges between different scientific, academic and industrial cultures. The declared goal is to promote research results of young scientists along with those of well-known experts.

IARIA has four uniquely identifiable vision targets under the umbrella accessibility, visibility and free promotion for all.

(i) Guaranteeing knowledge and free access for all (IARIA proceedings and journals are free-access with no subscription and no-publication-fees for journal (see ThinkMind Digital Library www.thinkmind.org)); i.e, accessibility to all.

(ii) Promoting  the young researchers, the future society scientists  (we invite PhD students providing solid tutorials, shadowed by their Supervisors ); i.e, visibility for all.

(iii) Coaching/assisting young researchers on how to write scientific papers, publish scientific results at high scientific visibility, and get their place in the scientific community;  i.e, promotion for all.

(iv) Freely assisting all authors for polishing their contributions (editorial/spelling/grammar aspects).

IARIA is focusing on advanced technologies, tomorrow’s products and inventions, and promotes them through various events and publications. Most of the events are targeting advanced results; IARIA offers the stage for world-wide promotion via special conferences and journals on advanced topics.

IARIA is relying on individual and corporate voluntary support and active scientists for bridging relationships with existing scientific organizations and customizing relationships with standard bodies.

IARIA targets International academia, universities, and research institutes for contribution to its events and actively promotes the outstanding results via IARIA awards, IARIA Journals, and publishing houses.

IARIA is also a school where young researches learn how to chair a technical session for the first time, and where young authors are coached how to edit a publishable contribution via a few iterations.

IARIA promotes equal access to community resources by organizing free tutorials along with the conferences, funding free publication in IARIA journals of extended versions from papers presented to IARIA conferences, and facilitating free-access to the conference proceedings.

Organization

The Board, Chairs, Speakers, Panelists, and Technical Program Committee members act as volunteers. Everybody pays the registration to any event when attending.

Lowest fees are for IARIA Fellows and full time students.

There are
- over 17 Board members
- over 100 IARIA fellows
- over 6-7,000 committee members and reviewers

The logistic services are ensured by 18 paid staff members and 7 specialized contractors. The conference logistics teams have 14 members [http://www.iaria.org/conferences.html] and the journal logistics team 4 members [www.iariajournals.org]

The logistic teams provide basic services (site maintenance, registration, support letters, program scheduling, etc.) and coordinate the 7 contractors delivering special services: hotel/tours, financial/accounting, legal, publication, publicity, post-event services, long term services (www.thinkmind.org digital library, printed proceedings, etc.).

IARIA Founders and active volunteers

• Tulin Atmaca, France
• Petre Dini, USA
• Mario Freire, Portugal
• Pascal Lorenz, France

IARIA early active Board volunteers

• Jaime Lloret Mauri, Spain
• Freimut Bodendorf, Germany
  
• Tibor Gyires, USA
• Friedrich Laux, Germany
• Eugen Borcoci, Romania
• Carlos Becker Westphall, Brazil
• Stephan Böhm, Germany
• Luigi Lavazza, Italy

IARIA outstanding volunteers

• IARIA Board
• IARIA Fellows

IARIA day-to-day volunteers

• Conference Chairs
• Members of the Technical Committees
• Members of the Journal Editorial Boards

IARIA committee coverage

IARIA fellows we lost, in memoriam:

• Elaine Lawrence, Australia
• Leszek Koszalka, Poland
• Bernard Stepien, Canada