A report on the latest ETRIA Members Meeting which was held during the TRIZ Future Conference 2009 on November 6, 2009 in Timisoara, 2009, is available as a PDF document at this link. The report presents topics which were discussed during the meeting as well as ETRIA financial situation.

As TRIZ is now wiedly spread throughout the world, it has undoubtedly randomly evolved throughout people and organization perceptions and uses.

Under ETRIA's organization and most of its worldwidely spread members, a survey has been launched, touching both academical, industrial and consulting institutions.

The idea is to capture an image as reliable as possible of the worldwide perceptions of TRIZ and ongoing directions based on reported facts by worldwide key persons.

According to this objective the proposed survey consists in five chapters and a total of 70 questions organized as a system (depending on the answers a different set of questions is porposed).

The survey is made sufficiently short in order for people not to spend more than 20 min to fill it (if data's are available to them).

All ETRIA Country Representatives are kindly invited to contribute to this initiative.

Please contact Denis Cavallucci denis.cavallucci (at) insa-strasbourg.fr for further details and to participate to the survey.

The Organizing Committe of TRIZ Future 2009, in Timisoara, Romania, has announced the official website of the conference and the first call for papers. The website is available at http://www.eng.upt.ro/trizfuture2009/