Dear colleague,

It is our pleasure to announce TFC21, the ETRIA World Conference “TRIZ Future” 2021 titled “Creative solutions for a sustainable development”. The conference will take place in Bolzano, Italy, and online on Sep 22-24 2021. All the information is available here.

The Conference is organized by the European TRIZ Association (ETRIA) together with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (unibz). The conference’s main partner is the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

The conference topics range from systematic innovation and creative design to engineering and digital technologies to solve complex problems in any field of human activity with a particular focus on advanced systems for tackling environmental issues and other global challenges. Of course, contributions including references to the TRIZ theory and tools are welcomed. The full call for papers with the list of relevant topics can be found here. Scientific papers will be indexed on Scopus.

We are also glad to announce that the submission system is now open. You can access the submission page through this link.  At the present stage, you can submit an abstract of your contribution; please use the template for scientific and practitioners’ abstracts available here. The first deadline for submitting abstracts is January 31st.

I look forward to receiving your valuable contributions.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the General Chair Yuri Borgianni (yuri.borgianni@unibz.it)