About ICA (Iran’s Creativity Association)

The main idea of ICA was formed in 1380, starting in two main sectors. The ICA’s professional activities were mainly concerned with students and in two different fields. The first being magazines targeting students as Expediential Talents named Tavan and a specialized magazine for kids named Pnjareh. The second filed was holding and offering specialized classes and courses for students. These activities started by the special magazine for expediential talent students in the field of mathematics, targeting the middle-school and high-school students. Then, Panjareh, was published which aimed at collecting and studying creativity materials, publishing them and using them in courses and classes at the same time. Until 1387 more than 200 issues of the magazines, targeting different age groups and audiences, including students, teachers, educators, and administrators were published.

The second team started its activity also at 1380, in the form of summer camps at schools including math, physics, astronomy and creative experiments at Sharif, Estefan Industrial, Semnan, Zanjan, and Mashhad universities.

However, the ICA was mainly concerned with the investigation of the small share that Middle Eastern countries have in the processes of inventions, discoveries and innovations in the recent century; which led us to the formation of the idea behind this association, creativity. Since 1384 the members of the two sectors have come together and have formed a professional and expert team to correspond with international corporations focusing on creativity. They have also translated articles and have described how they went about the issue at hand. The two teams founded Panjare-ye Khalaghiat Institute to create creativity packages, including courses, books, magazines, seminars, workshops, both theoretical and practical, counseling editorials and multi-media products. These packages were created and implemented at schools, corporations, non-profit organizations and other institutes in Tehran.

Considering the growth of the ICA and its expansion in other cities, the license for Iranian Creativity Associations (NGO) was applied for and granted by the Home Office (Ministry of Interior) and has been an active association ever since.