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ASIC - Association for science and information on coffee

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Following two colloquia on coffee, organized in Paris by the Institut Français du Café et du Cacao (IFCC), the Association Scientifique Internationale pour le Café (ASIC) was founded in 1966. Its first Board was composed of:

  • Dr. Enesto Illy was its first President
  • Dr. P. Navellier the first Scientific Secretary
  • Dr. René Coste the first Administrative Secretary of the ASIC.

The ASIC was created to fulfil the unanimously expressed desire of the participants at these meetings to dispose of a permanent organization, which would periodically bring together specialists from all over the world working in the different fields of coffee science and technology, giving them an opportunity of presenting and comparing their investigations.

ASIC came into existence, on the initiative of a few individuals and with the support of the IFCC, in the form of a "non-governmental" association as defined by the French law. The objectives and mode of operation of ASIC are defined in the following articles of the by-laws:

"To establish an inventory of scientific and applied knowledge and to encourage, carry out and coordinate research likely to contribute to a better use of coffee and its derivatives and to the improvement of coffee quality in the mutual interest of producers, wholesalers, industrialists and consumers." (Art. 1)

In September 2006, the General Assembly approved the change of ASIC's name to "Association for the Science and Information on Coffee - Association pour la Science et l'Information sur le Café".

Since its creation, ASIC has organized a series of international scientific conferences in different coffee producing or consuming countries (see Proceedings). Today, ASIC is the only completely independent and non-profit organization in the world whose scientific vocation is specifically devoted to the coffee tree, the coffee bean and the coffee drink.

 

List of ASIC Conferences

 
#

  Location

  Year  | Date
1   Paris; France   1963 | May 20 – 22
2   Paris; France   1965 | May 3 – 7
3   Trieste; Italy    1967 | June 2 – 9
4   Amsterdam; The Netherlands   1969 | June 2 - 6
5   Lisbon; Portugal    1971 | June 14 - 19
6   Bogota; Colombia   1973 | June 4 – 9
7   Hamburg; Germany   1975 | June 9 - 14
8   Abidjan; Ivory Coast      1977 | Nov 28 – Dec 3
9   London; UK   1980 | June 16 - 20
10   Salvador (Bahia); Brazil      1982 | October 11 - 14
11   Lomé; Togo   1985 | February 11 - 15
12   Montreux; Switzerland    1987 | June 19 – July 3
13   Paipa; Colombia   1989 | August 21 - 25
14   San Francisco; USA   1991 | July 14 - 19
15   Montpellier; France   1993 | June 6 - 11
16   Kyoto; Japan   1995 | April 9 - 14
17   Nairobi; Kenya   1997 | July 20 - 25
18   Helsinki; Finland   1999 | August 2 - 6
19   Trieste; Italy   2001 |May 14 - 18
20   Bangalore; India   2004 | October 11 - 15
21   Montpellier; France   2006 | September 10 - 15
22   Campinas; Brazil   2008 | September 14 - 19
23   Bali; Indonesia   2010 | October 3 - 8
24   San Jose; Costa Rica   2012 | November 12 - 16
25   Armenia; Colombia   2014 | September 8 - 13
26   Kunming (Yunnan); China   2016 | November 14 - 17
27   Portland; USA   2018 | September 16 - 20