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Management Committee (MC) decisions (8 November 2024)
- Management Committee (MC): according to CoB "Internal Rules" (art. 9, 11), FederUnacoma appointed the new CoB President, the new Members of the MC and the FederUnacoma Delegate inside the MC. President nominated the Secretary general. The mandateof the CoB management covers the period Nov 2024-Nov 2027
- CoB Members: n.2 Full Members were deleted, due to their low attendance in past 5 and 10 years (excluding the Covid period). The 3 Pellizzi Prize 2024 finalistswere admitted to CoB (Lu Xun, Zixuan He, Xin Tian). Congratulation to all these young researchers who – for five years – will be hosted in CoB and will participate to all its activities, currently, the total number of CoB members is 107
- Internal Rules: no changes have been made to the current
- 34th CoB Members' Meeting: will be held in Bari (Italy, October 2025), in occasion of “Agrilevante” exhibition. The data will be defined by FederUnacoma in next weeks
- Study Group (SG): a new SG was defined (Relationship between Research and Ag-Machinery industry), and Giuseppe Gavioli will coordinate it
- Pellizzi Prize: for the next edition of the award (2026), the values assigned to each assessment criterion have been changed (Level of originality and innovation compared to the present technologies: 30; Real possibility to transfer the innovation into the market: 25; Resulting benefits for agriculture and farmers: 25; Quality and clearness of the presented Ph.D. Extended Abstract: 20)
Marco Fiala - Secretary General
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 Fuentas (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
EIMA INTERNATIONAL 2024
The 46th edition of EIMA INTERNATIONAL (Bologna, 6-10 November 2024) closed with just under 346,800 attendees (about 20,000 more than last edition). Of these, 63,100 are foreigners from 150 countries. 1750 the exhibiting industries that showeed over 60 thousand models of machines, equipment and components for all agro-forestry production sectors, gardening and green.
Robotics, drones, digital technologies and AI systems represent the new reality of agricultural mechanization, concretely responding to challenges for food security, environmental sustainability and climate change.
Marco Fiala
"Club of Bologna (CoB)" Secretary General
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33rd Members' Meeting: documentation online!!
The 333d Members' Meeting of the "Club of Bologna" ended yesterday and was very successful in terms of participation (73 in total) and presentations of 9 excellent Key-Note Reports, around which there were interesting discussions. The three discussed subjects were:
- Session 1 – Value creation by public funding of research, development and innovation
- Session 2 – Biodiversity and regenerative agriculture: impact and relevance for farming. Challenges and opportunity for ag-mechanization and technology
- Session 3 – Specialized Mechanization: Technologies for grassland management
In the section "MEETINGS PROCEEDINGS" you can already read and download all the documents presented during the two working days.
In the section"PELLIZZI PRIZE/Previous Editions/2024", the presentations of the three finalists of the "Pellizzi Prize 2024" and the Award Ceremony have been also uploaded.
Marco Fiala - Secretary General
Club of Bologna - Linkedin Group
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Marco Fiala - CoB Secretary General