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June 25, 2021Italian participatory research initiativesA conference in Florence brought together the main national actors involved in "science helpdesks", initiatives that aim to make citizens an active part of scientific research -
June 15, 2021Language in the ‘human-machine era’: How will new forms of language technology change our communication, and language itself?The ‘human-machine era’ is coming soon: a time when technology is integrated with our senses, not confined to mobile devices. It means that the hardware will move from our hands into our eyes and ears. Intelligent eyewear and earwear will be able to translate another person’s words, and make it look and sound like they were talking to you in your language. But not only will technology mediate what we see, hear and say in real time – it will be having increasingly complex conversations with us. -
June 9, 2021School-to-work programs are easier with EDITFBK, in collaboration with the Department of Education and Culture of the Autonomous Province of Trento, offers EDIT (Esperienze Didattiche Insieme al Territorio, Teaching Experiences together with Local Communities), a platform based on the concepts of synergy, support and enhancement of skills -
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May 28, 2021FBK has signed the Charter for Equal Opportunities and Equality at WorkThe initiative responds to the invitation of the European Union which declared May as the "EU Diversity Month" -
May 20, 2021Energy: ENEA-Fondazione Bruno Kessler partnership on hydrogen, batteries and renewablesHydrogen, renewable energy, batteries and integration with energy networks. These are the main technological areas covered by the three-year agreement signed by ENEA and Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) for the development of innovative solutions to support the ecological transition of our country. -
May 14, 2021Tackling cyberbullying through innovative monitoring and educational technologiesCoordinated by Fondazione Bruno Kessler and funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020) of the European Union, the KID_ACTIONS project is running from January 2021 to December 2022.
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May 13, 2021Reusable, secure and trustworthy AI solutions in the Network EdgeFondazione Bruno Kessler coordinates [email protected], one of the 9 research projects retained from the 81 proposals submitted to the European Commission in response to the 5G-PPP ICT-52-2020 call: 5G-PPP Smart Connectivity beyond 5G. The project, started in January 2021, lasts 3 years and involves 19 partners among industries, universities and research institutes from 8 countries. -
May 13, 2021Quantum bits ignite the engine of innovationUniversity of Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler and National Institute of Nuclear Physics together to build an ecosystem of quantum sciences and technologies. Thus the [email protected] laboratory in Trento becomes an important node at national and European level for this sector and a unique setting where to design devices and create prototypes for supercomputing, secure communications and sensors -
May 11, 2021FBK-ECT* 2020 Annual ReportReview of the activities carried out by the FBK ECT * (European Center for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas) in the year of the outbreak of the SarsCov2 pandemic -
May 3, 2021Attention to safety, high precision, low power: the first products from the Janus project are making it to the marketSocial distancing and workplace safety: these are the main applications for businesses and communities that the Janus “two-faced” system, created in the laboratories of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the University of Trento, provides. -
April 8, 2021EIT Digital 2022 kicks off: applications are open until May 12, 2021EIT Digital 2022 is aimed at entrepreneurial minds planning to launch or enhance a startup and a deep tech product (Innovation Factory), or to provide entrepreneurial digital technology training programs (Entrepreneurial Academy). -
March 31, 2021HIT joins EIT MANUFACTURINGThe Trentino system of research and innovation in the main initiative that promotes advanced manufacturing in Europe -
March 26, 2021Dyslexia: the power of reading aloudReading aloud, assisted by a technology that "captures" the reader's attention on the written word, allows children with dyslexia to increase their comprehension of a text. This is what emerges from a study, the result of the collaboration between the Bruno Kessler Foundation and the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Trento, which involved 40 boys and girls aged between 8 and 10 years, half diagnosed with dyslexia and the other half with typical reading skills. With “Gary,” an average 24% improvement in reading comprehension scores is possible -
March 25, 2021“PROMETEO” project launched with funding from European FCH JUInternational consortium coordinated by Italy’s Energy Agency ENEA to develop innovative solid oxide electrolyser using concentrated solar power for a zero-emission industry -
March 17, 2021The COVID-19 symptomatic ratioAge-specific likelihood of developing symptoms and of progressing to critical disease after SARS-CoV-2 infection -
March 15, 2021New study reveals the effects of digital tracing in combination with other non-pharmaceutical interventions on the control of the Covid-19 pandemicThe work, the result of a collaboration among the Bruno Kessler Foundation, the Isi Foundation - Turin, the University of Turin and other foreign research institutes, has been published in the authoritative journal Nature Communications. The results analyze in which cases isolation strategies and digital contact tracing via app can help contain re-emerging outbreaks -
March 9, 2021The Human Resources Strategy for ResearchersFBK implements the principles of the European Charter for Researchers. The outcome of the evaluation by the European Commission was positive and FBK was awarded again the HR Excellence in Research certificate -
March 2, 2021VCovid in Italy: 54% of infections are due to the English variant, 4.3% to the Brazilian variant and 0.4% to the South African variantThese numbers come from the new 'flash survey' conducted by ISS and the Ministry of Health in cooperation with regional laboratories and Fondazione Bruno Kessler -
February 5, 2021Support tools for the hydrogen industry. Priorities for the development of the hydrogen supply chain in ItalyThe Report by H2IT - Italian Association of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells has been presented: hydrogen is a key solution for the decarbonization of the energy system -
February 4, 2021Cystic Fibrosis: new image processing methods accelerate studies on drugsA research project on cystic fibrosis, halfway between medicine and computer science, appears promising in increasing the chances of fighting this genetic disease.
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February 3, 2021ENEA TECH: THE AGREEMENT WITH FBK FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFER HAS KICKED OFFCollaborating to identify possible synergies and development opportunities in research and tech transfer, to contribute to the growth and competitiveness of our country. This is the goal of the agreements signed by ENEA Tech with FBK, IIT, HT -
February 2, 2021Dedagroup Public Services and Fondazione Bruno Kessler together for the development of INTERLINK — a European Open Innovation projectThe INTERLINK 3 - year project aims at creating and enabling new digital collaborative governance models centered on the citizen's needs. The international team is carrying out tests in three Administrations: the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance, the Latvian Ministry for Regional Development and the City of Zaragoza. -
January 28, 2021Identification of therapeutic targets and drug repurposing against Covid19 based on proteins, diseases, drugs, and symptoms network analysisNetwork medicine aims at using networks to uncover patterns in diseases and use them to understand their biology and propose new drugs. -
January 27, 2021Drug logistics, the GPI-HIT-FBK-UNITN project’s prototyping phaseThe collaboration started in February 2020 and the next step will be to improve the performance of the Riedl Phasys robotic cabinet -
January 8, 2021FBK-ISS-INAIL study, reopening with high incidence is risky, even if Rt is lower than 1Relaxing restrictions when the incidence of Sars-CoV-2 infections is still high can lead to a rapid new spike in cases, and therefore in hospitalizations, even if the Rt number is below 1. These are the findings of a study, based on data from the epidemic's 'first wave', conducted by researchers from Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) and the National Institute for Accident Insurance (INAIL) published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States (PNAS). -
December 15, 2020Augmented reality for industrial maintenancePAMA Rovereto adopted an FBK project thanks to HIT and Confindustria Trento Digital Innovation Hub -
November 25, 2020Towards Jupiter’s moons, the radar is readyESA (European Space Agency)'s instrument for the Juice mission, which sees the Trentino research system as a protagonist, has been delivered -
November 17, 2020In search of scents lost: new project explores Europe’s smelly heritageODEUROPA will find references to smells and scents in literature and historical paintings using cutting-edge artificial intelligence techniques. -
November 16, 2020PapyGame: teaching programming turns into a gameThe platform, to which Fondazione Bruno Kessler's researchers contributed, received the award for best software at the MODELS 2020 International Conference
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November 4, 2020Microsoft and FBK in the challenge for sustainable growthAI for Earth is Microsoft's international program that has supported people and organizations facing global environmental challenges since 2017, helping to implement projects based on Artificial Intelligence -
November 3, 2020Predictive models and pandemic scenariosFBK epidemiologist Stefano Merler participated in a round table at the Genoa Science Festival on the theme of mathematical models applied to the study of pandemics -
October 12, 2020Matching family savings to increase college educationIRVAPP researchers describe the college savings accounts programs and present the promising results of a pilot project they have evaluated
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September 25, 2020THE “CHE ARIA” PROJECT AT THE “GIOVANI RICERCATORI CERCANSI” (YOUNG RESEARCHERS NEEDED) CONTEST: EXCELLENT RANKING FOR THE GALILEI HIGH SCHOOLThree students from the Trento-based high school for science have ranked second in the "basic research" category with a project based on a school-to-work experience at FBK -
September 21, 2020Trento e Rovereto Play&Go, oltre 240 mila km sostenibiliIniziata il 26 ottobre scorso, la sfida per una mobilità amica dell'ambiente; si avvale dell'App Viaggia Play&Go messa a punto da Fbk. -
September 4, 2020FBK joins the International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable DevelopmentThe network currently includes 124 international organizations and research institutes aiming to promote the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -
August 5, 2020EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OF TRANSLATED, FBK AND PERVOICE FOR REAL-TIME TRANSLATION OF DEBATESA contract was signed to transcribe and translate the speeches of parliamentarians with an innovative system. The new technology preserves human sensitivity towards the nuances of language incomprehensible to machines -
July 3, 2020Tecnologia made in FBK per il telescopio dell’osservatorio VERITAS in ArizonaFBK è un leader mondiale nel campo dei fotomoltiplicatori al silicio SiPM che sviluppa da oltre 10 anni per grandi esperimenti di fisica di frontiera e per applicazioni industriali
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June 30, 2020FBK PARTNERS WITH WHO ON NEW INITIATIVE TO MONITOR COVID-19 INFODEMICS FROM AROUND THE WORLDFBK team of researchers led by Manlio De Domenico will develop a computational platform for interactive monitoring and visualization of COVID-19 infodemic on social media and a report on the global state of COVID-19 infodemic. -
May 26, 2020TrentinoSalute 4.0: the activities for the next three years have been financedTrentinoSalute4.0 will carry on its activities for the three-year period 2020-2022: the Province Government decided today, on the advice of the councilor for health Stefania Segnana, to allocate to the Competence Center on Digital Health, jointly managed by the Province, the Trento Province Healthcare System and Fondazione Bruno Kessler, one and a half million euros for the next three years -
April 16, 2020EUROPEAN INNOVATION COUNCIL (EIC): A NEW TOOL TO SUPPORT RESEARCH AND INNOVATIONIn less than a year, "Horizon Europe", the new European Union Framework Program for Research and Innovation, will be launched; a budget of 100 Billion Euros for the period 2021-2027 -
March 24, 2020FBK Live – Fake news and coronavirus: from the epidemic to the infodemicThe first appointment of "FBK Live - La ricerca live" was broadcasted live on Facebook and Youtube. Guests are FBK researcher Manlio De Domenico and visual thinker Jacopo Sacquegno -
March 12, 2020EIT Digital 2021 – deadline May 7, 2020EIT Digital launched the call for the building of "EIT Digital 2021" activities. Five strategic areas: Digital Tech, Digital Industry, Digital Cities, Digital Wellbeing and Digital Finance. -
February 18, 2020ECT * hosted a remembrance ceremony for Professor Renzo Leonardi, the “father” of Trentino physics and of the Proton Therapy CenterProfessor Renzo Leonardi, one of the "fathers" of physics in Trento and of the Povo department of the University, as well as of ECT *, the European Center for Theoretical Nuclear Physics at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, passed away on July 6, at the age of 79 -
December 8, 2019The first functional atlas of the human brain based on intra-operative mapping data has been publishedThe amount and complexity of information processed by the human brain at any given moment is huge and varies extremely from one individual to another. Understanding the anatomical structure and functional mechanisms of information processing that occur between the different brain circuits is one of the greatest challenges for research in clinical neuroscience of the third millennium
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October 2, 2019ICIAP 2019 conference proceedingsThe conference traditionally covers both classic and the most recent trends in image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition, addressing both theoretical and applicative aspects, promoting connections and synergies among senior scholars and students, universities, research institutes, and companies. -
January 16, 2019Mission Report. FBK’s results and their impact on societyThe mission of Fondazione Bruno Kessler is to build a concrete and effective relationship between research of excellence and the demand for innovation that comes from the most diverse sectors of society. The final balance depicts the results achieved and offers all stakeholders an opportunity for discussion based on data -
November 20, 2018Pandemic: prevention and early intervention strategiesThe prestigious scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has published the article "Measurability of the epidemic reproduction number in data-driven contact networks". FBK researchers Stefano Merler and Marco Ajelli are among the authors
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November 16, 2018“La bottega della scienza”: Students and Citizens Protagonists of ResearchThe new Alternating School and Work Program project designed by FBK, which aims to conduct research projects based on proposals from citizens officially started with a kick-off meeting -
November 7, 2018DECENTER, a joint EU-South Korea research and innovation projectThe goal is to build advanced cloud platforms to enhance Artificial Intelligence applications -
October 25, 2018CORPORATE PRIZE TO THE “BAMBINI A PIEDI SICURI – KIDS GO GREEN” PROJECTThe educational and interactive game, designed in cooperation with Fondazione Bruno Kessler, aims to encourage children to keep sustainability in mind when deciding how to go to school
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September 11, 2018The factory of the future is being designed at the competence centersArticle by Francesco Profumo, FBK President, for GARR NEWS No. 18, July 2018
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July 23, 2018How dengue fever spreadsThe prestigious scientific journal Nature Communications published the paper "Quantifying the spatial spread of dengue in a non-endemic Brazilian metropolis via transmission chain reconstruction". Among the authors, the FBK researchers Giorgio Guzzetta and Stefano Merler
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July 5, 2018QUANTUM @ TRENTO: nuovo laboratorio congiunto fra Università, CNR e FBKObiettivo: conquistare la leadership italiana nelle scienze e tecnologie quantistiche. Aziende e istituzioni di ricerca insieme per attrarre di investimenti e sviluppare nuova tecnologia nell’ambito della flagship europea da 10 miliardi in 10 anni. Il presidente Cnr Inguscio: «Trento da sempre all’avanguardia nel finanziare scienza di frontiera e alta formazione» -
July 3, 2018600 Researchers together for the new CINI National Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent SystemsThe National Inter-University Consortium for Computer Science, CINI, to present the new National Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems, AIIS on Wednesday, July 4, 2018, in Rome
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July 2, 2018Internship trip note by Kaznu studentsRysbek Togzhan and Dauletbekkyzy Dinara share their experience in FBK Center for Religious Studies
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June 22, 2018Webvalley 2018: Looking for new solutions in the fight against pediatric cancerThere are eighteen of them. They come from all over Italy and the US: the young budding researchers who together with FBK experts are developing a new solution of Artificial Intelligence for the neuro-oncological patients of the Bambino Gesù of Rome. -
April 12, 2018“Clean” nuclear fusion to fight tumorsFBK participates in experiments on the application of boron-proton fusion in a potential new proton-therapeutic technique. The results have been published in Scientific Reports
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January 17, 2018BOOSTEE-CE – Boosting energy efficiency in central European cities through smart energy managementGeospatial data, smart energy management tools, energy audit and innovative financial schema to facilitate efficiency of existing buildings -
November 23, 2017Underwater 3D SurveyingDocumenting, mapping and monitoring the underwater world with photogrammetry -
November 10, 2017VirtualArch: un progetto europeo per il Monte CalisioFrequentato fin dai tempi più antichi e noto per la sua ricchezza geologica e naturalistica, il Monte Calisio si erge a nord est di Trento, tra l’alta Valsugana e la Val di Cembra. Conosciuto anche come Monte Argentario, il Calisio è al centro di un progetto europeo denominato VirtualArch al quale partecipa anche l’Ufficio beni archeologici della Soprintendenza per i beni culturali. -
October 25, 2017ProM Facility Innovation and Technology Transfer Champion at SMAU MilanoThe Polo Meccatronica Lab awarded as a model of innovation. The visit and congratulations by Minister Giuliano Poletti to the Trentino-based experience -
October 12, 2017HIT | Tecnologie e imprese si incontrano al Graphene Composite Innovation DayTrento diventa per un giorno centro di negoziazione tra imprese innovative e studiosi del grafene -
October 6, 2017ON EVA’S SIDE – RELIGION TODAY FILM FESTIVALThe project is being presented on Saturday, October 14 during the opening of the 20th Religion Today Film Festival with a reflection on twenty years of cinema, media, women, religions.
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October 5, 2017The Magic of Physics: Nobel Prize Winner Ketterle Charms the Muse Science MuseumThe German physicist was the protagonist of the closing event of Researchers' Night 2017 -
October 2, 2017L’informatica al servizio del sociale: il Festival dal 13 al 15 ottobre a RoveretoLa tre giorni per scoprire le nuove tecnologie al servizio di chi ne ha più bisogno si apre con l'intervento del Presidente FBK Francesco Profumo che discuterà sul tema del digitale a servizio dei cittadini e delle comunità. Cyberbullismo e fake news, prevenzione delle calamità naturali, domotica, soluzioni tecnologiche per i disabili, progetti di cooperazione internazionale al centro di laboratori, workshop e incontri con esperti nazionali e internazionali. -
September 25, 2017Violence in Sacred Texts. Religions Between War and PeaceA Reset-Dialogues conference in partnership with Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.
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September 22, 2017120 secondi per la tua idea brillanteI casting anche in Trentino. Le migliori proposte concorreranno durante lo Start-up Festival a Innsbruck il 24 Novembre 2017
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September 19, 2017Countdown to the Researchers’ NightThe appointment in Trento, in parallel with the other 52 Italian cities that join the initiative, is for Friday September 29. FBK Demo & Hands-on -
September 14, 2017Women and science: a look beyond stereotypesFBK-Povo hosted researchers, experts, and journalists for a cultural debate on the presence of women in the world of work and language
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September 6, 2017Hub Innovazione Trentino nuovo partner della Comunità di Conoscenza e Innovazione di EIT Digital per il cambiamento climaticoIn arrivo nuove risorse dall’Europa per aziende trentine, startup, centri di ricerca ed enti di formazione, con le quali finanziare progetti nell’ambito della Green Economy
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September 6, 2017Conference Exiting Violence | Call & Grants for StudentsSix grants available for students and young scholars who are welcomed to participate to the Conference
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August 16, 2017Hai un’idea innovativa? Con HIT potrebbe diventare impresa!Bootstrap-TIS è il nuovo programma promosso da Hub innovation Trentino per chi vuole promuovere un'idea innnovativa da portare sul mercato. Le iscrizioni al programma scadono il 7 settembre.
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July 19, 2017Strike! Stories of Young People Changing ThingsThe Italian Agency for Family, Births and Youth Policies (APF) and the Demarchi Foundation in collaboration with Trentino Social Tank promote the second edition of the "Strike! - Stories of Young People Changing Things "