The EurAgEng Innovation & Development Award (formerly known as the Industry Innovation Award) has become a regular feature of AgEng conferences since AgEng2000. The Award is intended to widen the appeal of the conferences to engineers from industry and is awarded at the AgEng conferences for the best quality paper on Innovation and Development from industry, or a combination of industry and academia.

Companies are encouraged to present papers on research and development leading to innovative products likely to be marketed commercially. The papers are judged by a distinguished team from EurAgEng and the winners are presented with the EurAgEng Innovation and Development Award.

AgEng2008

At AgEng2008 the winning paper was Segregating Different Qualities of Grain during Harvesting by Hahn, J and Risius, H of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Fachgebiet Agrartechnik, Germany, and Korte, H of CLAAS SE GmbH. In the picture, Prof J Hahn and Dr H Risius (right) of Humboldt-University, Berlin receive the award from Prof Ettore Gasparetto (left).

AgEng2006

At AgEng2006, the winner of the award at AgEng2006 was David Shelton of Shelton Sportsturf Drainage Solutions with his paper on Developments in Sportsturf Drainage Machinery and Techniques. David and Eileen Shelton are pictured receiving the award from Prof Aad Jongebreur at the Awards Ceremony.

AgEng2004

At AgEng2004, the winner was Andreas Brunnert from Claas CSE with his presentation on Automatic Guidance of Harvesting Machines.