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October 2, 2024Agreement between FBK and Politecnico di Milano signedThe agreement will see the two institutions engaged in joint actions in strategic areas ranging from microelectronics to photonics, artificial intelligence and MedTech. -
October 1, 2024Preventing stress in women with breast cancer: virtual coach ALBA is hereFondazione Bruno Kessler, in collaboration with the Trento Province Healthcare System, is coordinating the ALBA research project to investigate the contribution of “digital therapies” in promoting mental well-being and preventing stress in women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. -
September 28, 2024Digital farmers: artificial intelligence takes “the field”Fabio Antonelli (FBK) and @Matt the Farmer today featured at Wired Next Fest on AI, data and agritech -
September 9, 2024SWITCH: the innovative project for the production of green hydrogen receives award from IEAThe SWITCH European project, coordinated by Fondazione Bruno Kessler, has won the Hydrogen TCP Award of Excellence 2024, the prestigious prize from the International Energy Agency, the supranational intergovernmental organization leading the global dialogue on energy, for its important contribution toward a clean hydrogen economy and a more sustainable future. -
August 7, 2024In Trento the first superconducting qubit made in ItalyAt the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento, the first superconducting quantum bit (qubit) built entirely in Italy was born. -
July 23, 2024FBK and the University of Padua together for research and developmentFrom cybersecurity to neuroscience, agriculture and health emergencies -
July 12, 2024ELOQUENCE Project Advances Multilingual Conversational AI for Safety-Critical ApplicationsELOQUENCE, a Horizon Europe project, enhances conversational AI for safety-critical applications such as emergency response and healthcare. Supported by the European Commission, it boosts AI reliability across multiple languages and aligns with EU ethical standards to improve human-machine interactions. -
July 10, 2024Physics for planning citiesUn gruppo di ricerca di FBK e degli atenei di Trento e Padova ha sviluppato un modello computazionale che riproduce le strutture dei sistemi di trasporto urbano. -
July 5, 2024WebValley 2024: the results of the summer school for young data scientists that studied the ionosphere using AIThe 2024 edition of WebValley, FBK's summer school, is wrapping up with the closing event on July 5. -
July 1, 2024FBK and UniTN together again for researchJoint research projects and labs, shared doctoral programs: Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the University of Trento have renewed their strategic collaboration for another three years. -
June 7, 2024Trento, Italy, sees the first digitized atlas of the human brainThe neurosurgery international scientific community will gather in Trento for the “Connect brain” conference June 13 through 15. Neuroscientists from around the world will be participating in the event. An opportunity to learn about and test an innovative technology that reconstructs maps of brain connections. A useful tool against head tumors. -
June 7, 2024LEGO Brick ChallengeFondazione Bruno Kessler hosted the Trentino leg of the EXPLORE program of the FIRST® LEGO® League Italia on May 11, 2024. -
June 4, 2024First meeting of the new Advisory BoardEnterprises, start-ups, Europe, universities and research,health care, manufacturing and AI for industry, fintech, agritech and the local area were the topics at the center of the discussion -
May 30, 2024Innovation and research, new Pwc Center of Excellence in TrentoAndrea Simoni, Secretary general at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, and Silvio Ranise, Director of the Center for Cybersecurity at Fondazione Bruno Kessler attended the event. -
May 30, 2024AIXPAThe presentation event of the AIxPA project dedicated to artificial intelligence for Public Administration was held at FBK's Povo site -
May 15, 2024FBK at the Trento Festival of EconomicsHealthcare, artificial intelligence and new professions in industry among FBK's contributions to the debate to outline the future -
April 4, 2024The CLEANSE Lab – CLoud Native ApplicatioN Security is hereFBK and DEDAGROUP have created a new Co-Innovation Lab dedicated to Cybersecurity. -
March 27, 2024Trento capital of hydrogen: the Zero Carbon Community meeting held at FBKDuring the TEH Ambrosetti event on March 26, 2024, the discussion covered the need for common national strategies and Trentino's main sustainability projects -
March 27, 2024A new frontier for anti-frosting systems.Researchers from Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the University of Trento have designed and fabricated surfaces that slow down the formation of ice by blasting away water droplets before they freeze. The findings open up a new way to design ultra-efficient frost and heat exchange surfaces. The paper has been published in the American journal Acs Nano. -
February 28, 2024New digital frontiers: the Interlink collaborative environment for increasingly citizen-centered public servicesPublic and private entities, organizations and citizens from six European countries participated in the project coordinated by Fondazione Bruno Kessler -
February 22, 2024Countering violence against women together, Memorandum of Understanding renewed and expandedFBK is among the signatories of the "Memorandum of Understanding for the Prevention and Combating of Gender-Based Violence in the Province of Trento," which was officially signed this morning by representatives of the authorities. -
February 22, 2024EU project SMHYLES develops novel salt- and water-based hybrid energy storage systems (HESS) on an industrial scaleThe SMHYLES project, coordinated by FBK is funded by the EU under Horizon Europe with around €6 million for a period of four years from January 2024 on. -
February 15, 2024Bruno Kessler, on stageFebruary 17 will mark one hundred years since his birth. Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the University of Trento are dedicating a project to the man who promoted them. A celebratory moment with Andrea Castelli in December -
February 14, 2024Innovative solid oxide electrolyzers to produce hydrogen will be developed in the Hy-SPIRE projectThe kick-off meeting of the Horizon Europe project Hy-SPIRE “Hydrogen production by innovative solid oxide cell for flexible operation at intermediate temperature” was held in Warsaw on 8-9 February 2024, hosted by coordinator – the Institute of Power Engineering – National Research Institute (IPE-NRI). -
February 12, 2024European Testing and Experimentation Facilities, xTEF, are open for BusinessThe four European Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs) announce their readiness for business. -
February 10, 2024World Artificial Intelligence Festival: FBK among representatives of the Trentino system in CannesThe French Riviera will be hosting the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Cannes Festival, one of the world's most important fairs on artificial intelligence, February 8 through 10, 2024. -
January 29, 2024European project revitalises rural areas with smart innovation packagesThe EU-funded project SMART ERA, worth €6.5 million, aims to revitalise rural areas using smart innovation packages to combat depopulation. -
January 26, 2024People at the center of artificial intelligenceA growth of 50% in strategic agreements with national companies and 30% in patents and startups through the development of innovative technologies and artificial intelligence, the only tools to face change, now a distinctive daily feature of our time. -
January 25, 2024President Ferruccio Resta presented a preview of the 2024-2027 office term plan in Trento.Concrete and measurable goals redefine Fondazione Bruno Kessler's new mission and a new organization to achieve them more effectively. -
January 24, 2024Leadership in a context of scientific excellenceFondazione Bruno Kessler is a research and knowledge production organization. By virtue of these identity characteristics, FBK decided to open 2024 with an inspirational talk on the topic of scientific leadership, dedicated to its staff. -
December 28, 2023INTO THE W-AI-LDThe FEROX project presents "The Tech + Wild Journey", a docufilm produced by FBK and directed by Andrea Franceschini which tells the story of the development of an advanced technological solution to support pickers of small wild berries in Finland. -
December 21, 2023USES4HEAT project launched to enable the decarbonisation of European heating and cooling through innovative seasonal Thermal Energy StorageThe USES4HEAT project kicked off in December 2023 to enable decarbonised and reliable heating supply through innovative large scale seasonal thermal energy storage solutions. -
December 20, 2023First-year goals met. The challenge of new emerging infectious diseases.3 days to discuss the achievements of the PNRR INF-ACT Extended Partnership 5 research nodes to study current and future health emergencies with a One Health approach -
December 18, 2023In memory of AlbertoOn Saturday, December 16 Alberto Franzoi lost his life swept away by an avalanche while engaged in a ski mountaineering excursion with his brother Marco, who fortunately escaped such a tragic fate. -
October 2, 2023North Adriatic Hydrogen Valley launches in PortorožThe North Adriatic Hydrogen Valley (NAHV), the first transnational initiative of this kind under the Horizon Europe programme, supported by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership, was launched in Portorož-Portorose, Slovenia. Fondazione Bruno Kessler as partner in the project, will be in charge of several activities such as the safety plan, the modelling of the digital twin of H2 valley and definition for a certification scheme for the green H2 guarantees of origin. -
September 25, 2023Life Ecoempower projectECOsystems EMPOWERing at regional and local scale supporting energy communities - Empowering Energy Communities and their key role in the decarbonization of Europe and tackling climate change -
September 8, 2023Artificial intelligence, Trentino unit of Ellis startedFondazione Bruno Kessler and University of Trento join the European Machine Learning Network. The Department of Engineering and Information Science and the Center for Digital Society are involved. The initiative will serve the purpose of creating new businesses and start-ups -
August 12, 2023FBK’s Sustainable Energy Center laboratories at the new Hydrogen Hub in RoveretoThe new Hydrogen Hub will be hosted in Rovereto at the Arcese area. This is provided for in the memorandum of understanding signed by Trentino Sviluppo with the industrial group. -
July 13, 2023Co-Innovation Day 2023Dedagroup e Fondazione Bruno Kessler: il co-innovation lab come esperienza virtuosa di collaborazione tra ricerca e impresa. Dai casi d’uso per il mondo finanziario, della moda e della pubblica amministrazione alla roadmap evolutiva futura. -
June 29, 2023NEWELY PROJECT: Next Generation Alkaline Membrane Water Electrolysers with Improved Components and Materials have been created.The final public event of this European Project in which FBK participated, took place in Bad Zwischenahn (Germany) with the poster exhibition opening the EMEA Workshop 2023. -
June 27, 2023Europe launches four large-scale AI test facilitiesThe 220m€ investment provides permanent capacity to deliver responsible AI in Europe by testing AI solutions in practice before they hit the market and become a part of healthcare, manufacturing, agrifood and everyday life. One of those is the agrifoodTEF initiative: coordinated by Raffaele Giaffreda (FBK), it deals with the agricultural sector and food production. -
May 26, 2023E-Wallet: the Italian experimentation of the EU digital wallet to start from the Autonomous Province of TrentoThe project was presented, that sees the area of Trento at the center of the tests for the implementation of the European Digital Identity Wallet conducted by PagoPA - based on the IO app experience - in cooperation with Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, today guests of the HIT Foundation at the Trento Festival of Economics. -
May 8, 2023Artificial intelligence for urban securityFBK and the City of Trento are partners in three EU-funded international projects aimed at improving the protection of public spaces. -
April 28, 2023Ferruccio Resta has been appointed FBK presidentThe Trento Province Council has appointed the new president of Fondazione Bruno Kessler. He is Ferruccio Resta, full professor of Applied Mechanics of Machines at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Chancellor of the above university until December 2022 and current president of the Chancellors’ Conference. -
April 26, 2023HyCARE PROJECT: an innovative approach for renewable energy storage, now reality.The exhibition event of this European Project took place in Paris, on April 21st, 2023, with the presentation of the project activities and the demonstration of the prototype. -
April 19, 2023The AMETHyST project to develop local hydrogen ecosystems in the Alpine region kicks offThe Sustainable Energy Center as partner of the project funded by the European Interreg Alpine Space Program intended to promote energy efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen measures for energy sufficiency in the tourist areas of the Alpine region. -
April 12, 2023Artificial Intelligence to optimize CTThe Fondazione Bruno Kessler is collaborating on a model for automated analysis of CT images using artificial intelligence algorithms. -
March 31, 2023Artificial Intelligence: Tango guides the revolutionThe new EU-funded project that will kick off in autumn 2023, with 21 partner organisations from 9 countries across Europe, is set to develop a new generation of human-centric AI systems and to strengthen the leadership of Europe in this area -
March 3, 2023Local stakeholders at the table of the Nevermore European project dedicated to climate changeThe Working Group of the NEVERMORE European project, a board of provincial stakeholders animated by the Tourism and Sports Service of the Autonomous Province of Trento and supported by Fondazione Bruno Kessler-FBK, was formed on March 2, 2023, at the Province Headquarters. -
February 10, 2023FBK in the Trentino delegation of companies at the International Festival of Artificial Intelligence WAICF 2023February 9 through 11, the Palais des Festival in Cannes will turn into the world capital of artificial intelligence - a place where all the world's leading companies working on this topic will exchange views through workshops, B2B meetings and conferences. Every year, th event summarizes all the major innovations related to AI in business and beyond. -
February 3, 2023An innovative online platform based on virtual reality to facilitate training of rescue teamsFBK's 3DOM Unit is a technology partner in the European project TRACENET, led by the Trentino Civil Protection -
January 13, 2023Looking for innovators. Offering equity-free funding for AI Planning technology, software development and use-cases.Open call #2 for innovators features three different tracks, distinguishing three different kinds of contributions. Track A is mainly of interest for planning experts, while Tracks B and C mostly require more general software development. In track B, we are also looking for additional use-cases, which can potentially be of interest to everyone. -
December 20, 2022INTERLINK Project – the presentation of the results achieved in the first two years was held in RomeThe goal of the project coordinated by FBK is to overcome the barriers that prevent administrations from reusing and sharing services with citizens by developing a new model of collaborative governance. -
December 20, 2022FBK will coordinate the FEROX European Project to support the work of wild berry pickersIt will be based on AI, data and robotics technologies and will be tested in Finnish forests. -
December 16, 2022Cybersecurity: the agreement between FBK, University of Trento and Confindustria Trento for an ecosystem of international standingHelp companies learn about, understand and address new cybersecurity threats. Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Confindustria Trento sign the Memorandum of Understanding. -
December 14, 2022The first center for computational social sciences in TrentoA new Center has stemmed from the collaboration between Fondaziione Bruno Kessler, the departments of Sociology and Social Research, and of Economics and Management at UniTrento. Smart cities, changing work, and strategic management of public data: the collaboration between information technology, statistics, and social sciences provides support for decision-making. -
December 6, 2022Colorabilia: imaginary animals to colour and shareFifty free copies of the illustrated book containing illustrations taken from the precious seventeenth-century woodcuts of the FBK Library. -
December 2, 2022Open Innovation for the Riedl Phasys automated warehouse systemTogether with FBK, University of Trento and Dolomiti Robotics, an innovative solution was created to make the GPI Group's Riedl Phasys warehouse system more globally competitive. -
November 15, 2022Call to participate in UX CHALLENGE 2023 publishedHub Innovazione Trentino's technology challenge that has the university and research world collaborating with companies on the topic of digital interfaces is back -
November 10, 2022Equality and inclusion in translation techniquesLuisa Bentivogli, FBK received an Amazon Research Award -
November 7, 2022Mass screening is effective in containing Covid-19 infections. Published by the journal Scientific Reports The Study on the South Tyrol caseA research recently published in the prestigious scientific journal Scientific Reports shows that screening campaigns with rapid antigen tests to detect asymptomatic positives in the population are useful. Coordinated by FBK-Irvapp Director Mirco Tonin, together with fellow professors at the University of Bolzano, Davide Ferrari and Steven Stillman, the study, carried out using the data from the experiment conducted in South Tyrol in November 2020, indicates a significant lowering of infections (-45% in the infection growth rate) in the following weeks. -
October 18, 202210 new European projects for Fondazione Bruno Kessler’s Digital Industry CenterThe involvement of Trentino based businesses, the creation of demonstrator sites, and the development of solutions easily adaptable to the local area are being promoted -
October 4, 2022DIGITAL MAGICS to launch “Magic mind”THE FIRST STARTUP ACCELERATOR DEDICATED TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WHICH AIMS TO BE THE LEADING EUROPEAN PROGRAM DESIGNED TO DRIVE INNOVATION THROUGH AI SOLUTIONS. FBK and AIXIA will be technical partners in the initiative -
September 14, 2022AI for banks: new tools for business growth in the FBK and Dedagroup Business Solutions research projectAccelerating territorial development and business growth is the goal of the AIAAA project, which capitalizes on the experience and assets developed in the Co-Innovation Lab in which FBK and Dedagroup collaborate to develop Open Data and Open Services. -
August 23, 2022FBK and Extended PartnershipsThe results of the call on the Extended Partnerships of the MUR, based on the PNRR, have rewarded FBK, protagonist of 5 proposals among those that have passed the first selection, dedicated to 14 topics of national interest. -
July 19, 2022Also FBK and UNITRENTO in the project of the supercomputing centerThe new National Research Center in High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, led by INFN has the participation of Fondazione Bruno Kessler and UniTrento among its 51 founding members spread across the country. -
July 12, 2022FBK-ISR’s YouTube new channel is online!FBK’s Centre for Religious Studies is now on YouTube with a specially dedicated channel -
June 17, 2022Optics and photonics in TrentoFrontier research, technology applications, market trends, and societal spillovers addressed at Italian Icop2022 conference. -
May 20, 2022HUBCAP Call #1.5 – PULL is now open for applications!HUBCAP european project ecosystem will create new opportunities for SMEs in the vast domains of Cyber-Physical Systems -
May 9, 2022Open School and Educating CommunityTogether with the ecological one, we need an educational transition, centered on education for opportunities. Schools that teache to learn, more than single disciplines, connected with all those entities in the local area that care about the future of humankind. -
May 9, 2022Climate anxiety among youths – in the event organized by FBK and APPA at EDUCAResearch shows that more than half of teens are extremely concerned about ongoing climate change, while four in 10 teens consider not having children for this very reason. The ongoing climate crisis is causing, among other things, unease among young people all over the world and is felt more strongly in those countries whose governments are inactive in terms of environmental protection. This was discussed at EDUCA. -
March 30, 20223 Visiting Scientist positions at FBK-ECT* for Ukrainian researchersCandidates are invited to express their interest no later than April 20th, 2022 for the open positions at the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*) of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK). -
March 10, 2022Interview with Mirco Tonin, FBK IRVAPP’s new DirectorStrengthening the culture of public policy evaluation is important. Only by paying attention to mistakes we can learn and also aim to improve our ability to understand reality in order to have a greater impact on society -
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December 27, 2021The “AI-TN” project – Artificial Intelligence at Trento is hereWith an additional act, the Province of Trento has allocated 1.2 million to FBK for the new "AI-TN" project aimed at carrying out activities in connection with artificial intelligence, including activities in collaboration with the University of Trento. -
December 3, 2021FBK, CONFINDUSTRIA and INFN formed the GAIA-X HUB ITALIA association"It will be a reference point for projects on data enhancement" -
November 12, 2021Deep Gravity: the algorithm that explains how people travelFondazione Bruno Kessler, with the CNR Institute of Science and Information Technologies and the Argonne National Laboratory in the U.S., has developed an artificial intelligence-based algorithm, capable of predicting and explaining mobility flows in detail. The study has been published in Nature Communications -
October 25, 2021When did the spread of the Sars-Cov-2 virus start?FBK's Center for Health Emergencies contributed to the new study published in Nature -
October 11, 2021DIGITAL ONBOARDING AND GDPR: DISTRIBUTED CONTROL AND USE OF DATA AND DOCUMENTSThe first of a series of in-depth studies by CherryChain, an entrepreneurial reality co-located in the FBK headquarters in Povo that collaborates with the Cybersecurity research center of the Bruno Kessler Foundation, directed by Silvio Ranise -
September 21, 2021Ghost footprints on the light to keep an eye on health and the environmentHigh-precision, low-cost systems for air quality and medical diagnostics are being built at the Q@TN laboratory. The Trento based quantum physics center is an organization of reference in Europe for the design and manufacture of cutting-edge prototypes. By developing integrated photonic chips, the road to the breakthrough allowed by the use of ghost imaging and undetected photon spectroscopy techniques is being paved thus moving from theory to practice, from the laboratory to everyday life. -
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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