Giancarlo Sciascia
Born in 1979, entrepreneur and cultural manager with a background in Political Economy. Since 2007 he has collaborated with many Italian institutions (Festivals, Museums, Research Bodies and Consultancy Agencies) and contributed to various startup competitions at the intersection between the digital, social and cultural fields (cheFare, Culturability, Internet Festival, Falling Walls ). From 2011 to 2015 he was the Community Manager of the Ahref Foundation and since 2016 he has been the Audience Developer of the Bruno Kessler Foundation: he has been managing the official accounts on social networks and has overseen the participatory process to define the motto Future Built on Knowledge. In 2020 he wrote the book Fabbricare fiducia. From 2022 he has been curating the podcast series FBK Radio: Science and Society. Linkedin Profile.
Author's articles
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February 17, 2023Inheritances and social justiceSalvatore Morelli presented the findings of his latest study: "The Influence of Intergenerational Transfers on Wealth Inequality in Rich Countries: Size Matters" at FBK-IRVAPP -
February 9, 2023Destination: GanymedeThe European probe JUICE is set to be launched from Kourou Space Base in French Guiana in the second half of April. Mission goal: to reach Jupiter's orbit in seven years and study its icy moons. The Bruno Kessler Foundation (with the research group coordinated by Francesca Bovolo) is among the partners in the UniTrento-led project. -
December 13, 2022Francesco Weikmann wins a prize promoted by the United Nations and the European CommissionThe software developed, which enables the involvement of citizens to improve data collection on urban cycling, came in second at the Open Source Software for Sustainable Development Goals – Sustainable Cities & Communities (OSS4SDG) competition organized by the EU and the UN -
December 13, 2022Seeing with new sensesFBK-IRVAPP is conducting the SENSES (Seeing with new senses) project to assess an experiential intervention aimed at raising awareness of visual impairments and against stereotypes in sxhools. In collaboration with the social cooperative Abilnova and with the support of Fondazione Caritro -
November 25, 2022STOP ONLINE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENStandByMe european projects aim at countering online Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) via youth actions in Italy, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the rest of Europe. -
October 24, 2022Cities and regions under the spell of (de-)globalizationEdition No. 63 of the Italian-German Historical Institute's Study Week took place from Oct. 12 to 14, 2022. -
October 15, 2022Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design: pushing boundariesThe ES unit of Digital Industry Centre (FBK) co-organized this year edition of the International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD). It's the 22nd in a series of conferences on theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. The conference has been held in Trento last Oct. 18th and 19th -
July 13, 2022Designing innovative teaching: the ENCORE project is kicking offCoordinated by the University of Pisa, it involves European universities, institutions and companies. FBK is among the partners of the initiative thanks to the contribution of Antonio Bucchiarone (MoDiS) and Gianluca Schiavo (i3) -
June 14, 2022Marco Gaido received the Best Student Paper Award at IWSLT 2022His work, titled "Who Are We Talking About? Handling Person Names in Speech Translation", adds up to the strong record of recent publications of the Machine Translation Unit in the area of Speech Translation. -
June 9, 2022Complexity Article of the Year 2021 for an FBK paper on Adaptive Urban Policy-Making"Complex Urban Systems: Challenges and Integrated Solutions for the Sustainability and Resilience of Cities" is the title of the awarded paper, published in Complexity - special issue "The Complexity of Mobility and Human Dynamics in Cities", and coauthored by Riccardo Gallotti, leader of the Complex Human Behaviour Lab @ FBK Digital Society Center. -
May 23, 2022“Can che ha bias non morde?”In the new episode of Radio FBK, an interesting conversation about the relationship between discriminations and technology. Protagonists of the dialogue, Luisa Bentivogli and Marco Guerini, respectively Researcher of the Machine Translation unit of the Digital Industry Centre and Head of the Language and Dialog Technologies Research Unit of the Digital Society Centre. -
May 11, 2022Deep fake: between history and current affairsThis month's podcast and vodcast sees a conversation between a human scientist (historian Claudio Ferlan) and a researcher in science and technology (Elisabetta Farella). An interdisciplinary path around the topic of falsehood, in history as well as in the present time. An open reflection that poses new questions and at the same time allows us to take a closer look at what the craft of research is all about, exploring the laboratory of knowledge in the making -
May 10, 2022In-work poverty in Italy: what it is and how to combat itBeginning with a discussion of the mechanisms that lead to situations of in-work poverty, Andrea Garnero, host of the FBK-IRVAPP research center, presented data on the extent and characteristics of the phenomenon in Italy and the five proposals developed for the Ministry of Labor to counter both the spread of low wages and the growth of poverty in households -
April 29, 2022At full throttle with ROOBOPOLIHackaton on Robotics for smart cities organized by University of Trento, FBK, STMicroelecrtronics and Associazione Perlatecnica; in parallel with the IEEE workshop "Metrology for Industry 4.0 & IoT". -
April 28, 2022Call for PhD Programme in Information Engineering and Computer ScienceWithin the Doctoral Programme on "Information Engineering and Computer Science" at the University of Trento there are 12 scholarships on reserved topics by Fondazione Bruno Kessler -
April 27, 2022“BIKE2WORK – A Shift Towards Sustainable Mobility” @ SMARTGREENS 2022The FBK researcher Antonio Bucchiarone presented the case study at the International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems. The project, in collaboration with Dedagroup Public Services, is part of a larger initiative, "AIR BREAK- Co-producing healthy clean commuting air spots in town", with a focus on Air quality for the city of Ferrara. -
April 27, 2022AAAI 2022 @ FBKThe FBK scientist Luciano Serafini has become fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EURAI). Head of Data and Knowledge Management Research Unit at FBK, his reaserch interests include Knowledge representation, Artificial intelligence, Semantic Web, Applied Ontology and Neuro-Symbolic architectures. -
April 12, 2022The infinite lightness of explorationA journey inside the HERMES-SP project and the cross scientific return in the field of multi-messenger astrophysics -
April 11, 2022War and energy crisis: risks and opportunitiesGiancarlo Sciascia talks with Luigi Crema, director of Fondazione Bruno Kessler's SUSTAINABLE ENERGY research center. -
April 5, 2022Playful learning for SustainabilityThe FBK - DIGITAL SOCIETY Research Center is committed to promoting sustainable lifestyles through mobility choices and reuse, reduce and recycle practices. To do this, it develops applications and playful learning programs for schools and local communities -
March 30, 2022MIMEX testbed in Trento launched at FBKThe new shopping experience environment has been created to validate the actual effectiveness of the applicable solutions. A space with the basic configuration of a store that will facilitate the development of options to be used in different contexts. -
February 28, 2022Cryptography: a millennia-long historyWhat trends for the future of Cybersecurity? An introductory lesson with Prof. Silvio Ranise, director of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler's Cybersecurity Center -
February 25, 2022Nowcasting: Artificial intelligence-based short-term weather forecastsClimate change in Italy and Europe is leading to a progressive increase in extreme weather events, with repercussions on all social and economic activities: traffic circulation, tourism, agricultural and industrial production, renewable energy, people's health and safety. Always active in environmental modeling, in the past 5 years FBK has built a dense network of relationships with national and international organizations and companies for the research and development of weather models, in particular for extreme events. -
February 1, 2022AI made in Italy launches the international challenge against Covid: “Covid CXR Hackathon” promoted by IIT, FBK and UNIMORE presented at Expo 2020 DUBAIData scientists from all over the world united in a virtual challenge on Covid-19 data. The online hackathon is open to students, PhD students and teams of researchers called to solve a real and compelling problem in medical imaging. The goal: to support healthcare professionals with prognosis activities starting from chest radiographs and clinical data collected in hospital triage. -
January 21, 2022Sensors to sniff the airFunded by the CARIT Foundation, the TernAria project, led by FBK, involves Arpa Umbria, Airi and ADI. Proposed topic: the cycle of innovation, from research to a product on the market. FBK to continue its partnership with the schools of Terni for another 3 years -
December 1, 2021Elia Scattolo is the winner of the best student award at the international conference ECSA-8The student award consists of 500 CHF. It is for a student who has joined the online student competition of the 8th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications held on 1–15 Nov 2021. -
December 1, 2021FBK projects awarded by the VRT Foundation for relevance and impactThe calls of the Foundation for the Valorization of Trentino Research were launched on March 19, 2020 with the aim of countering the pandemic by supporting research aimed at social impacts -
November 30, 2021MILAN TRANSITION DAYS 2021: FBK’S CONTRIBUTIONPromoted by the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, an unprecedented discussion was held at the end of September 2021 on the topics of ecological transition: mobility, energy, food and water -
November 25, 2021FBK for International Day for the Elimination of Violence against WomenA comment by ISIG historian Cecilia Nubola and a hint to some related research insights that, for example, employ ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE technologies to GENERATE COUNTER-NARRATIONS USEFUL TO FIGHT ONLINE HATE SPEECH -
November 8, 2021Emerging scientific award to FBK researcher Giulia CencettiFriday, October 29, 2021, at the annual Conference on Complex Systems, Giulia Cencetti was awarded the "Emerging Scientific Award" by the Complex System Society together with Dr. Iacopo Iacopini (Central European University) and Dr. Yuanzhao Zhang (Santa Fe Institute). -
October 21, 2021PHOTONICS: FBK study reveals an innovative method for reading optical signalsThe study, published in the international journal "Optica" and funded by the joint laboratory Quantum @ Trento, is the result of FBK's proven experience in the production of photonic devices and integrated silicon detectors -
October 4, 2021MANLIO DE DOMENICO won the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics – 2020 editionThe Award of the German Physical Society annually recognizes outstanding original contributions that use physical methods to develop a better understanding of socio-economic problems
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September 28, 2021200 SME CHALLENGE: the UXCHALLENGE FORMAT by HIT-TRENTINO EXPORTED THROUGHOUT EUROPEFinal event (online) on October 7, 2021, with an analysis of the results and impact of the European project by FBK-IRVAPP researcher Davide Azzolini -
September 15, 2021FBK for interfaith dialogue and peaceSince 2016 FBK has been a partner of the G20 Interfaith Forum; September 11-14, 2021, it took part in the G20 Interfaith Forum which took place in Bologna, coordinating the working group on innovation in science and technology chaired by the director of the Center for Religious Studies, Marco Ventura -
September 14, 2021We grow by experimentingParents keep collaborating to offer multidisciplinary informal education opportunities at the Foundation -
June 23, 2021FBK IS LOOKING FOR DIRECTORS FOR 3 OF ITS RESEARCH CENTERSFBK HAS PUBLISHED THE CALLS FOR THE SELECTION OF 3 DIRECTORS FOR RESEARCH STUDY AND INNOVATION IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: SENSORS AND DEVICES (FBK-S&D); EVALUATION OF PUBLIC POLICIES (FBK-IRVAPP); RELIGIOUS STUDIES (FBK-ISR). NEW Application deadline: 10 September 2021, 12 pm. Further information available at jobs.fbk.eu -
June 15, 2021Supporting people experiencing higher levels of distressA proof-of-concept evaluation measuring the engagement and effectiveness of Atena, a psychoeducational chatbot supporting healthy coping with stress and anxiety, among a population of university students
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June 10, 2021Big data and non-religionA new paper authored by FBK researchers Dominik Balazka and Bruno Lepri, with the contribution of Prof. Dick Houtman (KU Leuven), sheds light on the possible impact of Big Data on the future development of non-religion studies -
May 5, 2021Suggestions for future research on artificial intelligence and religionThe two-year webinar series on Artificial Intelligence and Religion (AIR 2020/21) organized by the FBK-ISR Center for Religious Studies has wrapped up. A final assessment and a relaunch with new knowledge challenges -
April 22, 2021A research group in FBK highlights the importance of demography and social structures facing pandemic transmissionBMC Medicine has published the open access research paper "Modeling the interplay between demography, social contact patterns, and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the South West Shewa Zone (SWSZ) of Oromia Region, Ethiopia" authored by Trentini, F. et al.
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April 7, 2021VALORIZE CULTURAL / LANDSCAPE HERITAGE AND ENRICH CULTURAL TOURISMJUDIT - digital and interactive Judicaria: a new interdisciplinary project that leverages on the expertise of Fondazione Bruno Kessler and ICT technologies to valorise heritage locations and attract more people -
March 9, 2021Surprise: Bots are less central than verified accounts during contentious political eventsThe new scientific paper by Manlio De Domenico (FBK) has been published on PNAS. Very different information ecosystems emerge in terms of prevailing news sources when comparing social media with the web -
February 26, 2021Released the full version of COVID19 INFODEMIC OBSERVATORY by FBK CoMuNe LabWith many new features, a freely and user friendly platform to independently conduct a number of analysis for which at the moment there is no other online resource available -
February 23, 2021Digital technologies for the enhancement and reuse of historical and cultural heritageThe possibility of visualizing and requalifying sites through three-dimensional technologies favors the rediscovery of the air-raid shelter in Piazza Venezia in Trento, the scene of a piece of city history of the Second World War -
February 5, 2021From code to market: Network of developers and correlated returns of cryptocurrenciesCode has become an important societal regulator that challenges traditional institutions, from national laws to financial markets. A new research paper, coauthored by FBK researchers Lorenzo Lucchini and Bruno Lepri, has been published on Science Advances -
January 28, 2021Italy joins IPCEI with 12 companies and 2 research centers: ENEA and FBKGreen light from the EU for an investment of over 1 billion euros in the second Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on batteries. Below is the comment by Luigi Crema, director of the FBK-Sustainable Energy Research Center -
January 22, 2021Unraveling the hidden organisation of urban systems and their mobility flowsPublished on EPJ Data Science the Open Access new scientific paper authored by the FBK - CoMuNe Lab researchers Riccardo Gallotti, Giulia Bertagnolli and Manlio De Domenico -
January 21, 2021Artificial intelligence in the service of medicineThe AIMED project, with the support of Fondazione VRT, brings the technological and research results based on artificial intelligence developed at FBK to radiologists and neurosurgeons based in Trentino
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December 15, 2020The pandemic and increased uncertainty: what effects on fertility?The FBK-IRVAPP research center hosted a seminar on this topic with Raffaele GUETTO, researcher at the University of Florence, who described how the narratives conveyed by the media significantly affect reproductive intentions, changing demographic scenarios
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December 1, 2020Popularize Artificial Intelligence – Spread Your Results!Williams Rizzi received a special mention at the "Pietro Torasso" Award - PhD student edition. With a video, he illustrates the research he is conducting as part of his PhD project in an way that can be easily understood by a non-specialist audience. -
October 26, 2020Explainable AI for healthier lifestylesVirtual coaching systems can help people with chronic diseases improving their health day by day -
October 26, 2020TOTEM – 4D Trento Time MachineICT technologies, archive data, space-time analyses of the urban area, apps and Artificial Intelligence to enhance Trento, its history and its archives -
October 21, 2020How does the connectivity of the communication networks (mentions, replies) responds to certain banning (or dismantling) strategies?A recently published article by FBK researchers provides new insights about how the presence or absence of moderation in online interacting contexts shape the organization and the communicative functioning of the underlying systems. -
October 15, 2020Prevention and response to Covid19 in ITALYNew study published about strategy and planning evolution for the autumn and winter transition phase. With the contribution of FBK experts in mathematical models to describe scenarios and contain the spread of the infection, led by Stefano Merler -
October 2, 2020New research paper on Autonomous Shuttles has been published on IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems journalFBK contributes to the research with the proposition of the Autonomous Shuttles-as-a service (ASaaS) concept as a pillar for the realization of innovative and sustainable proximity mobility -
September 13, 2020Generating Counter Narratives against Online Hate Speech: Data and StrategiesHow big is the hatespeech phenomenon online? What effects does it produce? How can we tackle it? What is the contribution of artificial intelligence? Marco Guerini and other researchers at FBK are pushing forward this knowledge frontier -
September 8, 2020Combating hate speech, preserving freedom of expressionNovel techniques against hate speech are ready to be exploited to generate counter narratives about the many dimensions of hate speech: right-wing extremism, islamophobia, racism, cyber hate against LGBTI+ community, ecc. Interview with Marco Guerini -
August 31, 2020“AI for Future Italy”: challenges of the present and indications for seizing the opportunities availableAn open document containing discussions, proposals and recommendations for Italian research in Artificial Intelligence and the connection with institutions, industry and society. Organized by the National Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems of the National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics -
June 22, 2020SECURITY LANDSCAPE: a 3D exhibition within “BESec” Jean Monnet projectThe visual investigation that TerraProject has carried out concerns the relationship between threats to security in contemporary European society and changes in the urban landscape. What does the landscape we have built express? What message will we leave to future generations through it?
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May 26, 2020Raffaele Giaffreda (FBK) interviewed to identify core challenges related to water scarcitySAPIENCE project leader Raffaele Giaffreda (FBK) interviewed, within an EIT Cross KIC initiative, to identify core challenges related to water scarcity in Southern Europe -
May 13, 2020EU-funded project “SUPERTWIN” success storyOur researchers have employed quantum physics to develop a novel optical microscope that opens up the potential to view the tiniest of objects - including many viruses - directly for the first time -
April 30, 2020Prisoner’s Dilemma experiments published on Nature – Scientific ReportsThe paper authored by our researcher Riccardo Gallotti and Jelena Grujić reveals new insight that can be achieved thanks to a quantitative modelling of human behavior -
April 21, 2020Covid19 Infodemics Observatory follow upManlio De Domenico and Pierluigi Sacco participated to the World Health Organization ad-hoc technical consultation on managing the COVID-19 infodemic, held on 7–8 April 2020 -
April 9, 2020BRING THE FOOD FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS AND MOREThanks to the collaboration between the Municipality of Fidenza, FBK and local restaurateurs, the Bring The Food app has been adapted for the medical staff of the Vaio hospital and more
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March 25, 2020CherryChain, simplifying and strengthening digital trustEven though we are all at home, the digital innovation ecosystem does not stop. We talk about it with Carlo Rizzi, CEO of an FBK co-located startup -
February 17, 2020Inside the software used in scientific applications: SciPyA scientific paper listing our researcher Emanuele Olivetti and describing the "SciPy" Free/Open Source software, which reached version 1.0 after more than a decade worth of upgrades, has been published in Nature Methods -
January 31, 2020Technology innovation either is social innovation or it is no innovation at allSocieting 4.0 aims to experiment and suggest possible forms of future through collaborative processes: new ways in which people, institutions, the production and the research systems reconfigure meanings, symbols and social systems, leveraging the big potential of technology innovation -
January 16, 2020How computational linguistics can help in creative tasksWhat do the art of headlines in journalism have in common with wit, persuasion and exaggerations? Carlo Strapparava helps us explore the wonders of language connotations between the recent past and the near future in which the creativity incorporated in NLP technologies plays an increasingly important role -
December 16, 2019Artificial intelligence, facts and dream, overcoming fearsPaolo Traverso a speaker at TEDxTrento 2019 -
November 18, 2019“MADE IN FBK” 5G TECHNOLOGY AT B-APCO 2019This year, 5G is at the center of the important international event as far as public safety is concerned. Also FBK has participated with the 5G-ESSENCE project and the 5G-EmPOWER asset
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October 24, 2019Roberto Battiston in the firmament of AstronauticsThe FBK board member was awarded the Hall of Fame Award by the International Astronautics Federation for contributing to the progress of space science and technology and to the impacts of space for humanity
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October 21, 2019Conversations on technology and society40 conferences, 5 workshops for kids, 1 documentary in national preview and a show conference involved about 50 speakers and more than 1,500 participants during the three day Festival of Informatici senza frontiere. Among them experts and onlookers, professionals and also many students, from Trentino and out-of-Province -
October 9, 2019Inside the game engineWith the help of our researcher Antonio Bucchiarone, we look into the model on which the gamification of many FBK projects on smart communities are based. The study was presented during the Models Conference 2019 which was held in Munich in September
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September 25, 2019Why we should learn more on hydrogen and other alternative energy sourcesRuben Bartali, a researcher with the Center for Materials and Microsystems at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, talks with Federica Vinci from Volt Italia about sustainability and "national energy sovereignty" at the Festival of university students of Trento: Poplar
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September 5, 2019Identity and performance in the web societyYoung people, adolescents, digital natives, millennials seem to prefer the connection to the relationship, protecting themselves from the risks that derive from it
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September 2, 2019This year the SERIE A champions will be…Our scientist Giuseppe Jurman, who has always been a soccer fan, has applied predictive models to soccer and found that...
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August 12, 2019Follow the leaderSome examples to present the "religion of innovation". The research by Matteo Corsalini (Unisi/FBK-ISR PhD student) starts from a central question: can profit maximization be read as a new option of faith?
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July 16, 2019Religion for a better innovationThree reasons why religious freedom matters and is key to sustainable development -
July 8, 2019When the media make historyThe ISIG 2019 summer school has involved modern and contemporary history scholars in an intense debate on ongoing research projects and scientific investigation methods
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June 18, 2019The narrow path of artificial intelligenceThe Italian brains behind the world of robots. When it comes to the spread of artificial intelligence in businesses and in the public administration, our country is lagging. But it shines with Germany in research worldwide. This is the snapshot after the study by Ahk Italia and Deloitte
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June 18, 2019Will the 21st century be the century of complexity?The attention to the study of complex systems is growing in the world and also in Italy. We asked Manlio De Domenico to describe the meaning of this emergent science from his point of view, being part of one of the most vibrant academic network focused on these approaches and topics
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May 20, 2019Circular economy lessonsAdolfo Villafiorita, head of the ICT4Good team at FBK, introduces the E-Mining @ School project, funded by EIT KIC RAW Materials, for students of vocational and high schools in five European countries
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May 7, 2019Artificial intelligence, transitions, and enabling skillsWe find ourselves within a technological revolution that also represents a wider paradigm shift: an ongoing transition from the present to possible futures. How does human-machine collaboration change? How can organizations benefit?
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March 27, 2019FBK Researcher in the Olympus of Young Researchers in PhysicsManlio De Domenico wins the prestigious Young Researchers in Statistical Physics Award (IUPAP-C3, 2017) for the many interdisciplinary applications of his research in Statistical Physics. Complexity feels at home now among physicists
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March 6, 2019Once upon a tryExplore the greatest inventions and discoveries of humankind thanks to the new Google Arts & Culture interactive online project in collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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February 20, 2019Hey Gianni, what’s next? | A researcher’s storyGianni Barlacchi tells us about his PhD work at FBK under the helpful guidance of Bruno Lepri (MobS Lab) and Alessandro Moschitti (University of Trento). Sharing lessons learned to provide a tip for prospective doctoral candidates -
February 13, 2019Online dating: curiosities, strategies and social impactSome think that online dating is not just a starting point to meet new people but mark the end of relationships and love. Data in hand, how much have we changed?
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February 1, 2019Ranking pages’ impact and users’ engagement on FacebookIntroduction to PopRank, an algorithm to assess both the Impact of Facebook pages as well as users’ Engagement on the basis of their mutual interactions
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January 14, 2019What is a mobile money service? Why is it needed?Mobile Money: Understanding and Predicting its Adoption and Use in a Developing Economy - our recent case study computed 77 features to investigate whether and how past mobile phone behavior is related to the future usage of M-Pesa
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November 7, 2018The Data and Life of Great Future CitiesThe Roca London Gallery is hosting an exhibition, based on Marco De Nadai and MOBS @ FBK research activities. It proposes that, used responsibly, personal data could be the key to better urban design
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October 29, 2018Commonfare: an Approach to Welfare for the 21st Century?"Rethinking the economy of digital platforms in social innovation": a Conversation with Maurizio Teli, Reserch & Innovation coordinator of Commonfare.net, recently invited by Eit Digital for an Innovation Talk about the co-op platform and paradigm
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October 25, 2018Post-Human: Where the Human Being Finishes and Something Else BeginsWhat does it mean to be human? Science fiction has been exploring this question since its inception. With the coming of artificial intelligence, the need to ask real and hard questions becomes more pressing
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October 17, 2018In praise of imperfectionIRVAPP seminar with prof. Massimo Buscema, expert in Artificial Intelligence and deep learning faced with a perspective that is "different from the mainstream" -
October 8, 201810 million euros for the “Innovare in Rete” programmeStartup and Innovation: Banca Etica selects the best projects that will be supported with high-quality loans and consultancy -
September 18, 2018Investing in research to innovate social enterprisesWe interviewed Flaviano Zandonai, Ezio Manzini and Francesco Profumo, protagonists at the 16th Workshop on Social Enterprise
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July 6, 2018Evgeny Morozov on global fight for AI supremacyAt Economics Festival 2018, the Belarusian sociologist, journalist and writer, expert in media and technology, spoke of the ongoing global war between American and Chinese companies for the global hegemony of artificial intelligence, and appealed to EU politics -
July 4, 2018CREATE-NET awarded at the Digital360 AwardsCREATE-NET has been recognized by Digital360 among the most relevant research centers in the promotion of digital innovation in Italy
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June 27, 2018Will social media managers be replaced by Artificial Intelligence?For some time now, we have been hearing that Artificial Intelligence will replace most human jobs. However, talking to a hi-tech marketing guru like Guy Kawasaki (former Apple chief evangelist), we had the impression that this was not necessarily the case -
June 19, 2018Ron Brachman: AI is what you make of itWe met the prof. Ronald J. Brachman at the FBK headquarters during the conference "The pleasure of research in AI", here is his perspective on AI as a long run researcher
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June 7, 2018When art changes societyHow can pleasure be a principle for innovation? What is the key motivational factor? How important is impact measurement? Why do we need crazyness? - A conversation with Doris Sommer from Harvard
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June 5, 2018Culture is much more than a soft issueBuilding a stronger Europe: new initiatives to further boost role of youth, education and culture policies
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May 31, 2018Further recognition for CLIMBThe project participated in the "Sustainable PA Award, 100 projects to achieve the objectives of Agenda 2030", promoted by Forum Pubbilca Amministrazione in collaboration with ASviS -
May 30, 2018The first experiment in Italy of networked Clean Rooms has been started"It-Fab" is here: a consortium of research INFRASTRUCTURES in the micro and nanotechnology field connected to the EuroNanoLab project, which will significantly increase the chances of accessing projects on a European scale. FBK is part of it together with CNR and PoliMi -
May 24, 2018Families_share at the 2018 Festival of EconomicsSANTA MARIA MAGGIORE square in Trento to be TRANSFORED for three days IN "A SQUARE THAT GROWS...TOWARDS THE TECHNOLOGY THAT FOSTERS BALANCE"
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May 21, 2018Zero-emission? Let us bring factories back to the citiesIt sounds like a paradox, but according to Wolfgang Wahlster, CEO and scientific director of DFKI, it makes no sense to build future zero-emission production centers if the commuting of workers remains highly polluting
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May 16, 2018FBK and Microsoft together for precision medicineFBK presented a major new machine learning project for Precision Medicine that leverages Azure cloud computing capability and a $ 20,000 grant support under the Azure for Research program at the Microsoft Edu Day2018
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May 14, 2018Running an Open Innovation Platform for IoT-Big Data in Sub-Saharan AfricaEmpowering Digital Transformation of Africa by WAZIUP and WAZIHUB initiative - a project coordinated by Open IoT research unit of CREATE-NET center at FBK -
April 5, 2018SenSAT’s plenary session half-way throughOn March 1, 2018, the follow-up meeting to check on the progress of the tasks of the big Alternating School and Work Program involving more than 200 students in Trentino was held at "M. Buonarroti" High School in Trento -
March 30, 2018How can the web and social media help medicineInterview with Eugenio Santoro, Head of the Health Informatics Laboratory at the "Mario Negri" Institute of Pharmacological Research in Milan
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March 21, 2018Toward 5G for Aircraft CommunicationsThe EIT Digital Innovation project ICARO-EU addresses a new integrated high capacity direct-air-to ground communications system. FBK research center CREATE-NET contributed to the system prototype design and implementation -
February 16, 2018Thirty Years of Commitment to Responsible Research and InnovationFBK research on artificial intelligence as a demanding and patient practice to keep together technological progress and human development
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February 5, 2018Creating an ecosystem for innovation entrepreneurshipWhat are the main challenges to face to translate research excellence into a succssessful innovation ecosystem? Paolo Taticchi from Imperial College shows us his point of view
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February 3, 2018FBK and MAMACROWD side by side to support businessesThanks to the collaboration started, FBK has now the opportunity to report to Mamacrowd the startups in its acceleration program that meet the requirements to access online capital raising through the equity crowdfunding portal -
November 29, 2017Francesca Bria: How to build digital inclusionThe digital initiatives of the city of Barcelona and an interview on the role of digital and social innovation at the present stage
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November 9, 2017Conversation with Simone Aliprandi: from Open Access to Open Science DataWhat progress has been made? What are the legal (licensing) and technological (standards and repository) tools for profitable dissemination of research data?
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October 31, 2017Reconstructing the Steps of the Italian ShoahThe FBK Digital Humanities Unit has created an interactive tool that describes in detail the movements of Italian deportees during the Holocaust. The system can be downloaded for free
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September 22, 2017Knowledge and Innovation: Energy for DevelopmentSandro Battisti was the KEYNOTE SPEAKER of the international congress CIKI 2017 held in Foz do Iguaçu at the Itaipu Technology Park in Brazil on September 11.
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July 21, 2017WITH ROBO-summer PLAYING IS LEARNINGFirst edition of the educational robotics lab to bring Elementary School Children to STEM disciplines (Physics, Mathematics, Engineering and Computer Science)
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July 3, 2017AUDIENCES, FRUITION, IDENTITIES. SOCIAL HISTORY OF TV IN ITALYThrough diaries, letters, illustrated magazines and oral memories, the historical reconstruction of television audience through the changes of the 1950s and 60s
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June 27, 2017Freedom of Religion or Belief and Tolerance and Non-Discrimination for All is Vital to SecurityMarco Ventura, Director of the FBK Center for Religious Studies and member of the OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief: "freedom of religion or belief is under threat in the OSCE region and international co-operation can strengthen it as a force for security". -
June 14, 2017Why “traditional values” are today at the core of national and international law and politics debates?Video interviews to some of the protagonists of the Workshop “Tradition and Traditionalisms Compared. A Joint Program of the Tradition Project and the Postsecular Conflicts Project” co-organized by the Centre for Religious Studies at the FBK Foundation.
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May 26, 2017Race and TheologyA VIDEO-message from prof. Leo D. Lefebure on "The Conflict of Social Innovations: Christian Theologies, Empires, and Modern Constructions of Race"
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May 24, 2017Cohousing, between collaborative economy and second welfareProceedings from the "COLLABORATIVE LIVING, COHOUSING and REUSING EMPTY SPACES IN TRENTINO" CONFERENCE, an opportunity for reconstructing the history of the phenomenon, defining its main features and representing the opportunities for urban regeneration, local development and transformation of welfare it offers.
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March 24, 2017DOMOSENS at the turning pointTurning point for DOMOSENS, the project that simulates a real company owned by students and researchers: in 9 months the aim is to offer the market a sensor for monitoring air quality in homes.
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March 22, 2017Is Artificial Intelligence stealing our jobs? FBK tries to answer the big question at G20Paolo Traverso, ICT Center Director was the co-chair of the panel “Digitising Manufacturing” dealing with AI application in future industries. Outcomes of the panel will be officially transmitted to G20 ministers and discussed during the G20 Summit in Berlin April 6-7th '17. -
February 1, 2017William Storrar’s point of view about fundraising humanistic research activitiesStorrar is part of a leading international group of theologians, social scientists and other scholars, on issues facing public theology for the 21st century.
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January 14, 2017Fashion & technology together against violence on womenAt the presence of Council Member. Sara Ferrari (PaT), the FBK Povo premises turned into a catwalk. The models were the students of Centro Moda Canossa. The garments worn, equipped with multi-purpose sensors, are the result of an experiment which sees research and school work side by side. The objectives: create new opportunities for young people and fight violence against women. -
December 23, 2016Mobility story: Claudio FerlanI met Claudio Ferlan and asked him to take a few minutes of his time to share his experience of Mobility abroad.