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Our Full Member Prof. Hermann Auernhammer (Technical University of Munich - TUM; https://www.tum.de/en/) informed us about the possibility of free access to "AgTecCollection in mediaTUM" at https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/agteccollection.
It is a very interesting database concerning Agricultural Machinery and Mechanization sector, very useful for all the people (manufacturers, consultants, experts, students) interested in this topic and with visits from more than 140 Countries worldwide.

Marco Fiala  - Secrtery General

• Management Committee (MC): 9 MC Members and 2 Past-Presidents (PP) had its first meeting in presence on 10 October in Bari (AGRILEVANTE)
• Communication activities: to improve communication among MC Members will be created: (i) a chat-group, (ii) a shared folder on cloud. Roberto Oberti will support Marco Fiala (Secretry General) and Patrizia Menicucci (Administrative Secretary, FederUnacoma) in communication task. CoB website and CoB  LinkedIn group must be boosted.
• CoB Members: 5 Full Members (FM) were deleted, due to their low attendance in past years (excluding the Covid period). 3 Pellizzi Prize 2020 - IV Edition winnners (Christian Birkmann, DEU; Hao Gan, USA; Xin Zhang, USA), after five years hosted in CoB, were confirmed as FM. Welcome and congratulations to all these young new Members! Currently, CoB  Members are 103 (11 MC, 3 PP, 82 FM, 4 Pellizzi Prize 2024 Winners), representing 29 Countries, 7 Federations/Associations, 16 Organizations. Efforts to identify potential new Members, particularly in world areas currently not represented.
• Internal Rules: no changes have been made to the current text.
• 35^th CoB Members' Meeting: will be held in Bologna (13-14 November, 2026), in occasion of “EIMA International” exhibition. Topics: Session 1: Maechanization for Emerging Countries; Session2: Conservative Soil Tillage, (iii) Special Mechanization (sector to be defined).
• Study Group (SGR): SGR2 Dissemination was dismissed. Giuseppe Gavioli, coordinator of SGR5 Collaboration between University and Industry, presented the internal working teams and the SGR aims. SGRs activities and results must be update and disseminate.
• Pellizzi Prize: the next VI Edition was approved and scheduled for 35^th Members' meeting in Bologna. The award "Notice and Forms" will be published up to 31 Jan 2026 and te terms of application is 31 May 2026.