#innovation
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June 12, 2025FBK: call for applications for the Director of the Center for Digital Health & WellbeingAfter 35 years at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)—including the last five as Director of the Center for Digital Health & Wellbeing —Stefano Forti is preparing to conclude his professional journey. FBK has launched a public call for applications for a new director, with submissions open until August 20, 2025. -
May 30, 2025May 2025: FBK projects making headlinesInnovation, social impact and top-notch excellence: FBK initiatives that made the news in May. -
May 23, 2025The Future of Research Between Public and Private organizations: A Crossroads for EuropeFBK, AIRC Foundation, Human Technopole, IIT, and Telethon Together for the Future of Scientific Research -
May 23, 2025AIxPA Among the Winners of the “Augmented PA” AwardAn important recognition at ForumPA 2025 for the project led by the Autonomous Province of Trento, with FBK as a key research partner. The goal: not an occasional but a structural adoption of artificial intelligence within the public administration system, particularly to support decision-making processes. -
May 21, 2025The FBK international component: a bridge to innovationWelcome and global mobility at the heart of an increasingly open and multicultural scientific community -
April 28, 2025The Ministry of University and Research has awarded €994,000 in funding to the FBK-IRVAPP project dedicated to supporting inland mountain areas in TrentinoThe study will evaluate the effects of public policies designed to support families and businesses in the most vulnerable areas, serving as a national model for 900 mountain municipalities -
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. -
April 3, 2025Sustainability and Reduced Waste in Agriculture Through AI and New TechnologiesFondazione Bruno Kessler hosted the ANSA Roadshow, featuring a vertical in-depth study on the theme “Augmented” Agriculture: when Agritech meets AI. -
March 4, 2025Achievements and challenges for Italy: Quantum and Cloud ComputingTrento based Fondazione Bruno Kessler hosted the second event of the Roadshow organized by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy (MIMIT) to talk about emerging technologies, research and business involvement. -
February 5, 2025AgRimate: the future of technological and innovative agricultural pruningFBK participates in the new European project for a more digital and sustainable agriculture -
January 31, 2025InnovAction: supporting SMEs for digital and green transformationFBK supports the Twin Transition of Italian companies through a consortium with innovative services and dedicated funding. -
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. -
December 4, 2024FBK certified for quality management and information securityTrento-based Fondazione Bruno Kessler has obtained certifications for Quality Management (UNI EN ISO 9001:2015) and Information Security (ISO/IEC 27001:2022). -
July 26, 2024Artificial Intelligence as a driver for innovation for Trentino-based companiesMaurizio Gianordoli, FBK vice-president, illustrates the main applications of AI for the local area, the challenges of technological integration and the future vision for a competitive and sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem. -
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. -
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 31, 2023Study, research and organizational learning: Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the TESEO project living labAn opportunity for reading and reflecting to mark the celebration of the European Diversity Month 2023 -
May 25, 2023President Ferruccio Resta at FBK for first BoD meeting and to meet staffFirst BoD session and first meeting with all staff today at the Povo site for Fondazione Bruno Kessler President Ferruccio Resta, who succeeds Francesco Profumo. -
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. -
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. -
January 31, 2023The AgrifoodTEF european project is kicking offWith a total budget of 60 million euros and a time horizon of 5 years, AgrifoodTEF aims to develop testing and experimentation infrastructure to facilitate the adoption of services and products based on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in the European agrifood sector. The project’s kick-off will take place in Trento on February 1 and 2, hosted by Fondazione Bruno Kessler, the project’s coordinator. -
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. -
July 6, 2022FBK participates in the Italy-Korea Forum on Technology and InnovationTwo days in Seoul for an expanded meeting between Italian and South Korean science and technology players. -
June 20, 2022HEALTHCARE INNOVATION DAY – Trento hosted the roadshow to promote exchange between Israeli and Trentino based companiesHeld on June 20, 2022 at FBK in Povo, the roadshow in which an Israeli delegation led by Jonathan Hadar, director for economic and trade affairs of the Israeli's Ministry of Economy Foreign Trade Administration, presented to local entities the best solutions for digital health that Israel has developed and deployed for a health care system that has had to deal with the newly emerged pandemic. -
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 -
November 30, 2021Can Artificial Intelligence help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?Artificial Intelligence (AI) and sustainability are currently highly discussed topics in both the political and scientific debate and they appear to be two major challenges that will stay for the coming decades -
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 -
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 -
October 27, 2020Artificial intelligence and creative destruction: old and new jobsIs there a growing risk of robots replacing human work? If so, which jobs will be mostly impacted? -
October 27, 2020A new effort not to leave idle prior results obtained in EU projectsA new effort not to leave idle prior results obtained worldwide. -
August 27, 2020Gamification, a hi-tech antidote for ADHDFrom the US, a new recipe to contain hyperactivity and low attention. -
August 20, 2020Towards an energy autonomous and zero emission TrentinoThe FBK study supporting the new Provincial Environmental Energy Plan has been published in the international journal "Energy" -
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 -
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. -
November 29, 2019FBK research at EIT Digital Italy’s Innovation Day 2019The Innovation Village featured also digital products and services developed by Fondazione Bruno Kessler for industry, cities, wellbeing and finance -
October 3, 2019Technologies in education: how to go to the topA report by Nesta Italia and Compagnia di San Paolo discloses engaging experiences on the link between education and technology. The publication is full of case studies useful for designing new learning processes
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March 25, 2019Five tips for generation ZDavide Dattoli was the invited speaker of the seventh Bruno Kessler Lecture, on March 19, 2019 in Trento: in front of hundreds of students, he recounted his success story with Talent Garden -
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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October 16, 2018SATT2018: the Annual School for Translators Sells Out in Milan as WellHeld for the first time outside our Region, SATT has proven to be an international event for industry experts and translators
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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 -
June 20, 2018UX Challenge: a design sprint for digital companies in TrentinoThe UX Challenge is a two-day marathon engaging interaction design students, researchers and professionals with the aim to improve the user experience (UX) of applications and software developed by companies. -
June 12, 2018Innovation flows where there are innovative peopleIdeas are important, but the people who stimulate them are even more so. We talked about this with Alessandro Garofalo, former president of Trentino Sviluppo and professional innovator.
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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 30, 2018EuroNanoLab: an integration project at European scale for academic nanofabrication centersIn Europe, the academic strengths in nanofabrication are still too fragmented. To make better use of the existing investment, the consortium wants to integrate this research infrastructure around a "central hub", which is its orchestra leader
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May 7, 2018Talking about technology, religion and innovationAn interview with researcher Sara Hejazi: Sara was born in Iran and studied in Italy. She is an anthropologist with a focus on religions, gender perspectives and identity construction through body practices and symbols -
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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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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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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October 28, 2016Silver Medal for Giovanni Moretti at IBM Watson Services ChallengeGiovanni Moretti, Software Developer of the Digital Humanities unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, won the second place at the IBM Watson Services Challenge.