16 October 2025
Management Committee decisions (10 Oct 2025)
- 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 (Cristian Birkmann, DEU; Gan Hao, 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 2034 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.
- 35th 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 35th 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.
Marco Fiala - Secretary General
16 October 2025
34th CoB Members' Meeting (Bari, AGRILEVANTE)
Session 1
How Technology and Farmers' Needs Shape Next-gen Tractors
Streaming
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16 October 2025
34th CoB Members' Meeting (Bari, AGRILEVANTE)
Session 2
SPECIALIZED MECHANIZATION: Machinery for Olive Growing and Oil Extraction
Straaming
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16 October 2025
34th CoB Members' Meeting (Bari, AGRILEVANTE)
Interview to CoB President (italian language)
Streaming
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12 November 2024
CoB: new President and new Management Committee !!
According to the CoB’s Internal Rules, FederUnacoma appointed - for the period November 2024 - November 2027 - the new President of the "Club of Bologna" and the new Management Committee.
Presidency was assumed by Danilo Monarca (Univesity "la Tuscia", Viterbo - Italy), who appointed as Secretary General Marco Fiala (University "La Statale" of Milan - Italy).
Management Committee (MC) is now composed of: Giuseppe Gavioli (ITA), Paolo Gay (ITA), Roberto Oberti (ITA), Peter Schulze-Lammers (DEU), Peter Pickel (DEU), Deun Choi (USA), Spyros Fountas (GRC), Benno Pichelaimer (DEU). The FederUnacoma Delegate in the MC is: Fabio Ricci (ITA).
As Invited Members, the Past Presidents are also part of the MC: Ettore Gasparetto (ITA), Luigi Bodria (ITA) and Paolo Balsari (ITA).
A big and heartfelt thanks to the previous President and MC Members and a wish for fruitful work to the new!
Marco Fiala - Secretary General
07 March 2024
Club of Bologna - Linkedin Group
The "Club of Bologna" Linkedin Group was designed!
Follow the group! You will to be always updated!
Marco Fiala - CoB Secretary General
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25 October 2021
Ag-Mechanization and the "Club of Bologna"... a long story
From Federunacoma "Three Decades of Ideas and Strategies for Agricultural Mechanisation", an amazing video to celebrate our 30th meetings!
Marco Fiala - Secretary General
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