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April 14, 2025A reflection on legal challenges and opportunities in the era of space exploration"Facciamo spazio! L'orbita del domani" (Let's Make Space! The Orbit of Tomorrow) a discussion among representatives of institutions, industry experts and legal professionals. -
April 10, 2025Fondazione FiemmePER and Fondazione Bruno Kessler sign an agreement for the sustainable development of Fiemme ValleyFondazione FiemmePER ETS and Fondazione Bruno Kessler have signed a framework agreement to cooperate on research, innovation and sustainability initiatives, with a focus on the UN Sustainable -
April 4, 2025Over 500,000 Euros for Technological Research: FBK Funds 9 Entrepreneurial ProjectsFondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) will support 9 projects with high innovative and entrepreneurial potential. Each research team can receive up to €80,000 in funding, a training program, access to FBK’s facilities, and a network of contacts with venture capitalists and companies. -
March 20, 2025AHK Italien and Fondazione Bruno Kessler: starting with skills for the implementation of Artificial IntelligenceThe “Digital Skills and AI” conference, organized with the Italian-German Chamber of Commerce (AHK Italien), was held at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler. -
March 6, 2025The European Commission awards the SYRIUS project: a step forward for hydrogen in steelmakingFBK participates by bringing the expertise and research of the Sustainable Energy Center -
March 5, 2025A framework agreement to support SMEsA framework agreement between the Chamber of Commerce, Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the University of Trento was signed on March 5 at the Chamber of Commerce offices. -
February 19, 2025Advanced digital skills increase the likelihood of finding a jobAccording to a comparative survey of Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom conducted by Irvapp-FBK and the Center on Social Inequality Studies-UniTrento, mastering advanced digital skills increases the likelihood of finding a job, in all countries analyzed. Nel Regno Unito, le competenze contano persino più della laurea. Non è così in Germania e in Italia, dove il titolo terziario ancora paga, accanto alle competenze digitali. -
February 13, 2025Civil defense, operator training with virtual reality viewersAlbere and Vela neighborhoods hit by flooding: emergency management simulation teamed up with Austria and Portugal -
February 11, 2025Tropical or European epidemics?A review of indigenous epidemics of Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya that have developed in Europe over the past 15 years has been published by Lancet Regional Health Europe; no alarm but the growing trend calls for the development of new health policies that accelerate early detection of outbreaks, particularly in Italy. -
February 11, 2025Agriculture 4.0 is worth €2.3 billionIn Italy, agriculture 4.0 solutions, such as artificial intelligence, robotics and sensor technology, have come to be worth 2.3 billion euros; in 2017 it was only 100 million. -
January 31, 2025Artificial Intelligence: the European AI MATTERS project kicks off with 60 million euros and incentives up to 100% for companiesArtificial Intelligence makes the difference: presentation and launch of the European project "AI Matters", for tomorrow's manufacturing. -
January 30, 2025Parkinson’s disease: an algorithm detects falls and movement alterationsFBK, in collaboration with the Trento Province Healthcare System, has developed through artificial intelligence an algorithm that can predict the risk of falls and disease fluctuations in patients with Parkinson's disease. The initiative is part of a Ministry of Health project created to improve the management of central nervous system diseases. -
January 29, 2025Smart sensors for the use of agrochemicalsThe collaboration between Fondazione Bruno Kessler and startup Spray Logics aims to reduce and optimize the use of chemicals in agriculture. -
January 29, 2025Artificial Intelligence for beekeeping practicesFondazione Bruno Kessler and Melixa together to assess the effects of human and agricultural activities on biodiversity through intelligent monitoring of beehives. -
January 27, 2025AI for irrigation management in TrentinoIRRITRE: the project for the development of an integrated public local information system -
January 17, 2025Climate change in agriculture: a platform for risk mitigation and secure data exchangeLeading the AGRICLIMA project, Fondazione Bruno Kessler will implement an innovative technology platform for analyzing the impact of climate change in agriculture, developing tools for risk mitigation, and managing and securely exchanging data. -
January 10, 2025An unprecedented budget for Fondazione Bruno KesslerFor the first time since its establishment, Fondazione Bruno Kessler has exceeded 100 million euros for its budget. The funding obtained will enable FBK to invest in new facilities and people: clean room and young talent are the priorities for the coming years. -
December 16, 2024FBK, Politecnico di Torino, ENEA, Engineering, Fincantieri, Reply, TIM and Tiscali allied for a cloud-to-edge infrastructureItalian industry and research join forces in the leading European project on digital and industrial policy funded by the EU -
December 10, 2024European AI Factories: one of the European Commission’s first strategic artificial intelligence platforms in ItalyThe European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking has announced the outcome of the call launched in September for the creation of Europe's first AI Factories, which selected the IT4LIA AI Factory project, the initiative that had been nominated by Italy -
December 5, 2024CELINE, the European project to develop innovative digital services in energy communities, has kicked offThe European project CELINE (Cross-sectorial integrated digital services Enabling energy Localized InnovatioN and community Empowerment), coordinated by Spindox Labs, was officially launched on December 5, 2024. -
December 2, 20245VREAL project: technology innovation for sportsThe project was designed and implemented by the Free University of Bolzano with EMG Italy, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Small Pixels and Vodafone Italia. 5VREAL combines 5G and Artificial Intelligence to improve technical analysis and the sports experience, from playing fields to television broadcasting. -
November 6, 2024New ECT* Director appointedProf. Ubirajara van Kolck has now officially taken over as Director of ECT* from Prof. Gert Aarts, after a 3-year period. -
October 30, 2024Toward district heating of the future: efficiency and sustainability in focus in USES4HEAT projectAt the General Assembly at FBK, 27 European partners discuss innovations in geothermal district heating for a sustainable energy transition with focus on demonstrators in Riva del Garda and Oslo -
October 17, 2024Paving the Way for a Hydrogen-Powered Future in the AlpsThe Midterm-Conference of AMETHyST Project -
October 16, 2024Winning quantum photonicsTrento research toward an integrated quantum simulator awarded by IEEE -
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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May 13, 2021Reusable, secure and trustworthy AI solutions in the Network EdgeFondazione Bruno Kessler coordinates AI@EDGE, 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 Q@TN 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 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 "