In 1980, Professor Encarnação was one of the founders of Eurographics, the European Association for Computer Graphics, from 1980 to 1984 its first chairman and from 1985 to 1991 the chairman of its Professional Board.[7] Professor Encarnação founded the Fraunhofer IGD[8] in 1987 and several Start-Ups between 1975 and 2009. In 1999 he founded the INI-GraphicsNet, an International Network of Institutions for R&D and Applications in Computer Graphics, which is today a network of legally independent but closely cooperating research entities in Germany, Italy, Panama, Portugal and Spain. Since 2010 this network is operating under the new name GraphicsMedia.net - Wikipedia
