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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 30, 2020COVID-19 – Stefano Merler illustrated today at the ISS press conference how the previsional model was builtThe epidemiologist of the Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) Stefano Merler participated today, in video call from Trento, in the press conference of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS). -
April 30, 2020COVID-19. Social distancing measures have allowed China to stop the spreadThe study of an international team led by the Bruno Kessler Foundation of Trento and the Fudan University of Shanghai has been published in the journal Science -
April 24, 2020SARS-CoV-2: Stefano Merler today’s speech about the updated data on virus transmissibilityThe FBK epidemiologist spoke at today's press conference of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità illustrating the Rt value of the Italian regions. For the province of Trento the average value is 0.44 -
April 22, 2020MISLEADING MACHINES. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AFTER THE TURING TESTThe first webinar organized by FBK-ISIG in the time of Covid-19 focused on the analysis by media historian Simone Natale -
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 20, 2020WHAT IS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENThe first of four insights into the phenomenology of gender-based violence, a "cultural and civil emergency" that questions the very reasons for our being together -
April 17, 2020Reading Harari during the pandemicIt is not easy for a researcher to keep focused these days. The problem is not so much telework or the rarefaction of human contacts. The point, rather, is that it is hard to prevent the most creative part of one's mind from returning obsessively to the event that some weeks ago has changed everyone's lives. -
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 -
April 16, 2020FBK laboratories available for research on the CoronavirusThe European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CERIC) has set up a project that will facilitate the study of COVID-19 thanks to the cutting edge tools provided. Some of these are inside the Foundation's laboratories -
April 15, 2020Fighting fake news on Covid-19: unity is strengthThe FBK research group CoMuNe Lab, which recently created a platform for monitoring tweets about coronavirus, has launched an open call to scientists and experts for support in data analysis. This is sheer "open science" -
April 14, 2020COVID19: ISS-FBK study finds that the measures taken in Italy were effectiveA few days after the application of the measures to contrast Sars-Cov-2, the reproducibility index of the virus decreased both in Lombardy and in other regions -
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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April 7, 2020COVID-19, Religion and Belief Webinar SeriesCoronavirus has impacted many domains of our lives. This webinar series aims at exploring the strategies and initiatives of governments and religious groups to deal with the crisis