CROATIAN INNOVATORS WIN NINE MEDALS AT NUREMBERG EXHIBITION ( Editorial: --> 7558 )

( Editorial: --> 7558 ) NUREMBERG, Nov 2 (Hina) - The international exhibition of innovations and inventions IENA 97 in Nuremberg, Germany, is closing on Sunday. The show gathered 650 innovators from 24 countries who presented 438 innovations. Among them were 20 authors from Croatia who displayed 13 innovations, including five by primary and secondary school students from Varazdin, Rijeka and Zagreb. At a ceremony on Saturday evening, Croatian innovators were granted two gold, two silver and five bronze medals. Gold medals were received by Ivo Jelavic of Split for his "coded safety seal" and a group of authors from the Djuro Djakovic company of Slavonski Brod for their "new technology of preparing cattle feed by thermal treatment of plant remnants". Silver medal were granted to secondary school students Nikola Gmajnic and Goran Kanizaj for designing a software by means of which a robot can be moved by a verbal command, and Dragutin Babic of Rijeka for his "new model of kiosk". The owner of Fischer Technik, one of the world's leading creative toy manufacturers, showed special interest in the innovation by the Varazdin students. (hina) vm 021538 MET nov 97