The diploma granted to the finalists facilitates their access to some university faculties as it replaces the entrance examination which is the selection system adopted by the Polish universities. SUF is the oldest inventors association in the world, founded already in 1886. SUF s task is to promote inventive activities in society in general, especially the conditions for inventors. Therefore young people work with and for young people, this creates confidence and credibility among the ones involved in the counselling. The counselling has shown that all kinds of young people have ideas.
University students are just as common as e.g., immigrants and young single mothers.
The uniting aspects is that they all have ideas that they believe in and want to develop further. The Minhang Association of Young Inventors in Shanghai consists of over 500 students under age 18. It claims to be the largest association of its kind in China, and is a Corresponding Member of IFIA since mid-1987. Every member of the association takes a course in creativity and inventing and is requested to make a creative design. The president of the Association, Xiang Sheng-ying, was only aged 16 in 1997.