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EUROAVIA local groupUniversity of Bologna, Forlì campusSince 2019

Aerospace is a team sport

We’re the Forlì–Bologna local group of EUROAVIA, the European Association of Aerospace Students. We organise company visits, courses and competition teams, and our members take part in EUROAVIA events all over Europe.

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Team 22 – AirOne at the Air Cargo Challenge The Ferrari Museum, then orbital dynamics with AstroViktor 2024/25: official recognition and a win in Berlin

The EUROAVIA mottoBuild the Wings of Your Future

About

We’re students at the Forlì campus, organising the visits, courses and trips we wished our degree came with.

250+ Members in Forlì–Bologna
41 EUROAVIA local groups
16 Countries
4,000+ EUROAVIAns

EUROAVIA was founded in 1959 to bring aerospace students closer to the industry they want to work in. Our local group was founded on 16 January 2019, is affiliated with the University of Bologna’s Forlì campus, and is run entirely by students.

Anyone can suggest an event or a project. If enough people are interested, we find a way to make it happen, and a lot of the timeline below started like that. Most members study aerospace engineering, but you don’t have to.

Team

Who runs
the group.

The people who run the association and lead our working groups.

Local Board

The Executive Members will be chosen soon.

Team leaders

What we do

What we
get up to.

  • Visits

    Company visits

    Factories, hangars, control rooms and labs that aren’t normally open to students. Recently: Lamborghini, Pagani, the Ferrari Museum, Bologna Marconi Airport, NPC Spacemind and the Medicina radio telescopes.

  • Training

    Courses and talks

    Things your degree doesn’t cover, or covers too quickly. So far that has meant a CFD course, a Python and neural networks workshop, and talks like AstroViktor’s on orbital dynamics and trajectory optimisation.

  • Teams

    Competitions

    We put teams together for international competitions. Aether won the PACE Future Innovators Awards in Berlin, UniBOss won the Ideathon final in Munich, and Team 22 – AirOne took our first aircraft to the Air Cargo Challenge. If you’d like to be on the next one, tell us.

    About AirOne, our technical team
  • Abroad

    Events across Europe

    Members can apply for the workshops, symposia and competitions run by the other 40 local groups, usually a week long, in cities such as Munich, Toulouse and Lisbon. Now and then we host one ourselves.

  • Inside

    Working groups

    The association is run by its members. Join a working group (PR, design, communication or IT) and learn the ropes from team leaders who have done it before. It is open to students from any faculty, and it counts on a CV.

    How the working groups work, and how to join

Story

What we’ve
done so far.

Some of the events, visits and competitions from the last seven years, oldest first.

201916 Jan

Day one.

After two years of paperwork, EUROAVIA Forlì–Bologna became an official local group. Later that year we ran our first international event, the Aerodynamics Symposium.

20232022/23

EUROAVIA Cup.

We won the EUROAVIA Cup, given to the local group with the best record in international activities over the 2022/23 business year.

2023Apr–Jun

Flight Club.

With no funding and no university recognition yet, about a dozen members designed, built and flew their own RC trainer. FCP1 first flew on 26 June.
20233–8 Oct

InSpace.

During World Space Week, sixteen students from around Europe spent six days in Forlì: lab visits at the Tecnopolo, talks on deep space and a Python workshop.
2023Nov

Ideathon, Munich.

24 hours to solve a challenge set by GDT Systems and ANSYS. Our team, UniBOss, won the final.

202413 Apr

Five years.

Our fifth anniversary, at the Teaching Hub in Forlì. Panels on the space economy, AI and women in space, a company fair, then an aperitivo with a live band.
2024Oct

Fly with us.

Members went up in ultralight aircraft over Romagna.

2024Dec

Sant’Agata and Marconi.

The Lamborghini factory and museum, then a tour of Bologna Marconi Airport that ended in the fire service’s helicopter hangar.

202514 May

First in Berlin.

Aether won the PACE Future Innovators Awards after presenting their project to Airbus, Lufthansa and Leonardo. For most of the team, it was their first competition.

202525–30 Aug

Rockets in Forlì.

We hosted the final of the sixth Airbus Sloshing Rocket Workshop: 30 students from Greece, Turkey, Spain and Romania, rocket launches and an industry forum.
202627–29 Apr

Pit lane to orbit.

A visit to the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, pit-stop challenge included. Two days later AstroViktor gave a talk on how spacecraft trajectories are designed.
2026Jul

Team 22 – AirOne.

Our first Air Cargo Challenge, in Stuttgart. The budget was small, the wing snapped two days before we left, and we drove there in a nine-seater van called Giorgia. The backup aircraft flew, and landed.
2026/27Next

Next year.

The 2026/27 programme is still being put together. Join now and you can help decide what goes on it.

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News

From the
group.

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Calendar

What’s
coming up.

Our own events, and the international EUROAVIA events members can apply for. Add them to your calendar.

Upcoming

  1. International · 3–8 Nov 2026 · Bruges, Belgium

    Ideathon 2026

    An international EUROAVIA event. Details and how to apply are on euroavia.eu.

    Details

Network

One membership.
Sixteen countries.

Joining us makes you a member of EUROAVIA as a whole: more than 4,000 students in 41 local groups across 16 countries. All of them run events you can apply for: click a city to see what its group is up to.

AachenGermany AthensGreece BeogradSerbia BraunschweigGermany BucharestRomania CairoEgypt CovilhãPortugal EskişehirTurkey IstanbulTurkey KocaeliTurkey LeuvenBelgium LyonFrance MinhoPortugal NapoliItaly ParisFrance PisaItaly SamsunTurkey StuttgartGermany TerrassaSpain ValènciaSpain
AnkaraTurkey AveiroPortugal BordeauxFrance BremenGermany CádizSpain CastelldefelsSpain DresdenGermany Forlì-BolognaItaly IzmirTurkey LagosNigeria LisboaPortugal MilanoItaly MunichGermany OostendeBelgium PatrasGreece RzeszówPoland SevillaSpain TampereFinland ToulouseFrance ZagrebCroatia
All local groups on euroavia.eu

Partners

Partners
and sponsors.

Partner with us

We put companies in front of aerospace and engineering students at the University of Bologna through company visits, talks, career fairs and our competition teams. If you’d like to support what we do, we’d be glad to hear from you.

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Merch

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merch.

T-shirts and more with our logo. Ask for them at any event or write to us. Joining this year? Add the T-shirt when you sign up and pay €15 for both.

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    €15

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  • Hoodie

    The EUROAVIA Forlì–Bologna hoodie. Ask us for the price and the sizes we have.

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FAQ

Before
you join.

Do I need to study aerospace engineering?

No. An association needs a lot more than engineers. Behind every event someone looks after the design, the social media, the relations with companies, the budget and the logistics, and any member can take on one of those roles, whatever their degree. An economics student could look after our finances, for example, and a communication student could run our social channels.

You can also simply come to the events. Plenty of our members study something else and have aerospace as a second passion.

What are the working groups?

They are the teams that keep the association going: PR, design, communication and IT. There is also AirOne, our technical team, which builds an aircraft for the Air Cargo Challenge. Members can ask to join any of them at any time from the working groups page.

They are open to anyone who is keen, and you won’t be left to work it out alone. Each group has a team leader, and members who have done it before will show you how things work. If you’re interested, tick the groups you like when you sign up. Here is how each one works.

Does it look good on a CV?

Yes, and not only for engineers. Experience in an international aerospace student association stands out on any CV. A communication student who has run the social media of an aerospace group, or an economics student who has managed its budget, has something concrete to talk about in an interview. Other student teams at the university take on people from other faculties for the same reason.

How much time does it take?

It’s up to you. Some members only come to the events they like; others join a working group and help run things. There’s no minimum. If you take on a role, we only ask you to keep the team posted, including when you can’t make it.

What does the fee cover?

Your annual EUROAVIA membership. It gives you access to our local events and lets you apply for workshops, symposia and competitions run by local groups across Europe.

Do I need to study at the University of Bologna?

Yes. Under our statute, members must be enrolled on a degree programme at the University of Bologna. Any programme is fine, in Forlì, Bologna or one of the other campuses.

I study in Bologna. Can I join?

Yes. We run activities in both cities, and some of our visits, like Marconi Airport and the Medicina radio telescopes, are closer to Bologna than to Forlì.

Are events in Italian or English?

Both. International events are in English, and many local ones can be too: our visit to Lamborghini, for example, had guided tours in English as well as Italian, with groups split by language depending on who signed up.

Nobody expects perfect English. Most people at international events aren’t native speakers either.