Management Committee (MC) decisions (11 Nov 2023, Hannover- Germany)

• Management Committee (MC) list: no variation. Current President and MC  Members will end their mandate on November 2024. According to CoB "Internal Rules" (art. 9, 11), Federunacoma will nominate the new MC Members and President too
• Full Members (FM) list: n.1 FM, who passed away (Bill Stout), was deleted, n.3 FM were definitively excluded due to their retirement or low attendance to CoB activities (see "CoB 2023 Annual Report",  "DOCUMENTS" section), n.6 new FM were admitted (Troy Arnold Jensen – AUS, Shinya Kawashiri – JAP, Stanislav Khalin – UKR, Dares Kittiyopas – THA, Saidi S. Mkomwa – KEN, Salah Sukkarieh - AUS). In addition, the n.4 "Pellizzi Winners 2018" (Dana Choi, Marco Grella, Antonio Miranda, Andrii Yatskul), were nominated CoB FM. Congratulation to all the new FM! ...and good work inside the club!
• Internal Rules: no variation
• 33^rd Members' meeting: will be held in Bologna (Italy), 9-10 November 2024, during "EIMA International". The Subjects to discuss will be: S1 - Value creation by public funding of research, development and innovation;   S2 - Biodiversity: real needs, problems to achieving it and the role of agricultural mechanization; S3 - Specific Mechanization: machinery for hay and silage making
• CoB Linkedin profile: just opened, it is already running. Have a look and... join it to keep up to date!
• Pellizzi Prize: the V Edition of the Award will be organized in 2024. Award Ceremony on 10^th November 2024 during 33^rd CoB Memebers' Meeting. Notice and Forms are dowloading at "PELLIZZI PRIZE" section
• Study Groups (SGR): A fifth SGR was formed "Improve the relationship between Universities/Public Research Centers and agricultural machinery industry", coordinated by the FM Marco Ramm

Marco Fiala - Secretary General

"Giuseppe Pellizzi Prize 2024 - (V Edition)"

The application for the "Giuseppe Pellizzi Prize 2024" is open!
Deadline for application is midnight of May 31, 2024

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

Marco Fiala - Secretary General

32nd Members' Meeting is coming...

The 32^nd Members' Meeting of the "Club of Bologna" will be held on 12^th and 13^th November 2023 in Hannover (Germany), during Agritchnica 2023.

The three subjects to be discussed this year in Hannover will be:

• Session 1 – AGRICULTURAL USED AREA (AUA) DECREASE, WORLD POPULATION INCREASE, CLIMATE CHANGE: ROLE OF MECHANIZATION (Coordinator and Chairman: Danilo Monarca - Italy);
• Session 2 – PREDICTIVE AND LONGDISTANCE MAINTENANCE (Coordinator and Chairman: Axel Munack - Gernany);
• Session 3 – SPECIFIC MECHANIZATION: MACHINES FOR SUGARBEET AND POTATO (Coordinator and Chairman: Peter Schuze Lammers - Gernany).

Each Session will have Key-Note Reports (see Agenda) at the end of which - as a distinctive feature of the "Club of Bologna" - a long discussion among the participants will be. Finally, the "Session Rapporteur" (specially chosen from the youngest members of the Club) will collect the comments (“Key Sentences”) that each of those present wants to highlight on the topic.

Key-Note Reports, Presentations, Key Sentences, Session Reports, will be uploaded on Club of Bologna web site (see menu section “Meetings Proceedings”).

Marco Fiala - Secretary General

Download the Agenda of the meeting (click on news title)