Dr. Arne Møller

This morning we received the sad news that Dr. Arne Møller – Full Member of the “Club of Bologna” – died.
Arne always participated in Club’s meetings with enthusiasm offering us his valuable experience in the agricultural mechanization field. He always joined us with a smile becoming, even before a Colleague, a friend.

We will remember him. May his soul rest in peace.

Marco Fiala - Secretary General

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"Giuseppe Pellizzi Prize 2020"

The application for the "Giuseppe Pellizzi Prize 2020" is open!
Deadline for application is 30^th June 2020.

Download Notice and Forms! (Section "PELLIZZI PRIZE")

Marco Fiala - Secretary General

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The 29th CoB Members' meeting (10-11 Nov 2019, Hannover - Germany)

The 29th Members' meeting in Hannover - with 63 participants (51 CoB members and 12 external experts, reprenting 21 Countries, 3 International/Government Organizations and 3 Ag-Machinery Manufacturers Associations/Federations) - was succesfully held in Hannover, during Agritechnica and showed an interested participation.
The presentations in all three work Sessions, of the highest level, aroused great interest, offering many ideas for discussion among participants.
The three Coordinators of the "Study Groups" also illustrated the activities done during 2019 and discuss about the future perspectives.

Abstracts, most of Key Note Reports and presentations are already online (see "Meetings Proceedings - 2019" section).

Marco Fiala - Secretary General

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Management Committee decisions (9 November 2019, Hannover - Germany)

• Management Committee list: O. Marchenko (Russian Federation) Oleg, who died in April 2019, was deleted from the Management Committee (MC) list;
• Full Members list: n.7 new FMs were admitted, while n. 4 FMs were definitively excluded, due to their  retirement or low attendance to CoB meetings (see Section "MEMBER LIST"). A letter of reminder to attend the next meeting will be sent to the n.9 FMs that register a null presence at the last 5 Members' Meeting; in case of absence these FM will be excluded from the CoB;
• 30^th Members' meeting: will be held in Bologna (Italy), 14-15 November, during "EIMA International". This milestone-meeting will be celebrated with a special Round Table event (S1 - CoB vision for a sustainable mechanization for the future) and a projection of a video prepared by FEDERUNACOMA on the CoB history and the parallel evolution of agricultural mechanization from 1989 to 2020. The other subjects to be discussed are: S2 - Agricultural machinery market and perspectives and S3 - Specialized mechanization: machines for viticulture. A Guided Tour to viticulture machines exhibitors will be organized on Nov 15 afternoon;
• Pellizzi Prize 2020: the Notice of the 4^th edition of the prize has been approved. A special "News" on this item will follow in next weeks;
• Study Groups: a new Study Group (SG4 - Evaluation of the incentives for the improvement of agricultural mechanization in the world) has been approved.

Marco Fiala - Secretary General

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