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The EAA is involved in the celebration of this event which aims at raising awareness of noise on the welfare and health of people worldwide. The next edition of INAD is Wednesday, April 24, 2019.

Today, a new film “Sounds of my place” produced by EAA and supported by Head Genuit Foundation is now
awailable on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TWHL3nHQ7s
(You can also download the video here)
The film describes the INAD 2017 activities for promoting the awareness on noise problems, in relation to
environmental issues and well-being in general.

The film reports the interviews by EAA INAD IN EUROPE Steering Committee and EAA board on INAD-
organization, the importance to protect and to preserve the soundscapes of our living environment.

About 2000 students from 9 Member States participated at the competition “Sounds of my place”, producing
original audio, video, drawings and texts.
The students’ works show natural environments with their own sounds, like those from animals, water
streams and sea waves, bird twittering, as well as anthropic sounds at schools, markets, and so forth. The
large variety of soundscapes, let say the “sonic diversity” as transposition of the biodiversity concept, is also
a sign of social and cultural identity to be preserved.
The high quality and the originality of the students’ works were impressive and it is reasonable that their
awarness of noise pollution will encourage less noisy behaviours of people, necessary for preserving and
recovering a more sustainable sonic environment, which promotes our health and well being.
In the film 42 national winning materials are shown, in addition to other disseminating materials of the INAD
activities in the past editions.
The Steering Committee and the INAD working group all, thank all the organizers and the participants at INAD
2017 warmly for the enourmous job well done and for the enthusiasm they put in such a successful event.

You can also visit the EAA dedicated webpages about this 2017 edition which provided more information about the series of events addressed on the 26th of April 2017.

Please also visit the INAD resources on Documenta about this INAD, the previous & next editions.

EURONOISE are the major conferences on acoustics sponsored by the European Acoustics Association (EAA).
The last edition was held in Heraklion - Crete, Greece between May the 27th and May the 31st 2018. The event was organised by the Hellenic Institute of Acoustics (HELINA) on behalf of EAA.

EAA has offered 10 grants for young participants in Euronoise 2018 and 6 best paper & presentation awards to young researchers (sponsored by HEAD Genuit Foundation)

Acoustics'17 was the joint 8th FORUM ACUSTICUM & 173rd ASA meeting, held during June 25-29, 2017.

Check the results of the EAA best paper and presentation awards for young researchers.

Below is a picture of the EAA award ceremony which held on Tuesday the 27th of June, 2017.

Photo by Klaus Genuit. From left to right: Michael Taroudakis (former president of EAA, current president of ICA), Antonio Perez-Lopez (receiving the EAA AWARD for contributions to the promotion of Acoustics in Europe), Jorge Patricio (president of EAA), Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp (vice-president of EAA, representing Hugo Fastl who received the EAA AWARD for lifetime achievements in Acoustics but cannot attend the conference for medical reasons) and Michael Vorlaender (president of DEGA).

Read more about these EAA 2017 awards to Hugo Fastl & Antonio Perez-Lopez with their speeches here.

EAA also organized its annual General Assembly in Boston right before the conference, on Saturday the 24th of June.
Below is a picture of the participants of this General Assembly:

Last but not least, during this joint ASA-EAA meeting, ASA has delivered the following diploma to EAA for its 25-year anniversary:

Thanks ASA.