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March 17, 2026THz-Skin: pioneers in the early diagnosis of skin cancerFBK will contribute to the European project by microfabricating the sensors at the core of a system designed to diagnose subcutaneous cancer forms in a noninvasive way and without radiation. -
March 3, 2026What remains to be discovered about the Higgs bosonThere will be 13,000 innovative ultra-fast silicon detectors, developed and produced by FBK, installed at the heart of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment at CERN in Geneva. The project, launched with INFN Turin, will help study and measure particle physics phenomena with greater precision. -
February 27, 2026February 2026: The FBK projects making headlinesFrom the annual research and industry event focused on tomorrow’s Europe to the new leadership at the Center for Digital Health & Wellbeing, and from deepfakes to the Olympics: the FBK initiatives that made headlines in February -
February 26, 2026A Daydreamer dayThe annual PhD Day is back, offering the FBK PhD student community a chance to connect, discover one another’s research paths, and draw inspiration from colleagues with different personal and professional backgrounds. Awards were presented for the best posters and to those who distinguished themselves for their scientific output -
February 25, 2026Smart eyes for space, and much moreFor Space Jobs: the unique perspective of David Schledewitz, PhD student at the University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler -
February 23, 2026Think loud, speak science: the second edition of FBK Science Ambassadors kicks off21 young researchers will take part in the advanced training course in communication and dissemination of FBK science -
February 19, 2026We are YongFrom Korea to Trento, the journey of a young PhD student who chose FBK as his scientific home and life community. -
February 4, 2026January 2026: FBK projects making headlinesFrom a special feature on the Foundation to measles research, cyberattacks, AI in medicine, and the future of work, these are the FBK initiatives that made the news in January
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December 17, 2025Innovation makes its wayThe first edition of the PoC by FBK program has come to a close. The initiative was created to support the most promising business ideas proposed and led by FBK researchers, building on cutting-edge expertise and existing research results. Its goal is to bring these ideas to market in the near future through spin-offs, patents, or other technology transfer pathways. -
December 1, 2025November 2025: FBK projects making headlinesFrom the RaiNews Futuro24 episode filmed at the Foundation to coverage on artificial intelligence for public administration, and advances in neuroscience, meteorology, history, and cybersecurity: these are the FBK initiatives that made headlines in November
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November 26, 2025Quantum Entangled ConversationsSaturday, November 8, in the beautiful Procuratie of Piazza San Marco in Venice, SMAC hosted the first in what is expected to become a long series of Quantum Entangled Conversations, a new format for dialogue between science, philosophy, and culture conceived as part of the exhibition The Quantum Effect. -
November 12, 2025“My PhD among beetles, cacti, and icy drones”An interview with Matteo Omilli, PhD student in Space Science and Technology (University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler) -
November 12, 2025Macroscopic Quantum TunnellingUnderstanding the 2025 Nobel prize of John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit" -
October 29, 2025FBK hosted the Trentino meeting with the Consul General of Austria in MilanIt was an opportunity to discuss Artificial Intelligence, as well as sustainable energy and the Hydrogen Valley. Trento Province Vice President Spinelli said: "It is an honor to welcome the Austrian delegation to such a highly specialized center as Fondazione Bruno Kessler." The Consul General of Austria, Wolfgang Strohmayer, added: "An important opportunity to highlight the broad prospects for collaboration between Austria and Trentino in the field of innovation." -
October 27, 2025Neutron’s secret faces that are shaping the worldOn October 8, 2025, the meetings of the Journal Club series resumed, promoted by Jacopo Dalmasson, FBK Science Ambassador. The session featured applied physics researcher Stephanie Cancelli, who shared insights from her international experience. -
September 30, 2025FBK at Research Night 2025From the batteries of the future to quantum selfies, from a robot that teaches healthy lifestyles to games set in historical contexts and parallel worlds that explore economic and social dynamics. The general public had the opportunity to discover and test all of FBK's research in a single night: Research Night. -
September 30, 2025September 2025: The FBK projects making headlinesFrom the launch of the Science Ambassadors initiative to international awards and groundbreaking applications of AI in mobility, railway safety, and weather forecasting—these are the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) stories that captured media attention in September
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September 11, 2025“Think loud, speak science”: the voices of scientific researchAt a recent public event, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) introduced the 24 Science Ambassadors selected to communicate its research to the public and the media. These Ambassadors will take center stage at upcoming events, embodying the values of the Foundation. -
September 3, 2025August 2025: The FBK projects making headlinesFrom Summer learning programs to heat islands and pollution, measles and cardiology studies: the FBK initiatives that made headlines in August.
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August 28, 2025Richard Hall-Wilton reappointed as head of the FBK Center for Sensors & DevicesThe director will serve a three-year term -
August 4, 2025July 2025: the FBK projects making headlinesFrom heat islands to quantum technologies, agritech, historical research and the future of young people: FBK initiatives that made headlines in July.
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July 14, 2025FBK is partner of the SUPREME European pilot line for superconducting quantum chipsThe European Union has approved SUPREME, a new pilot line aimed at establishing reliable fabrication processes for superconducting quantum chips. Led by VTT (Finland) and involving 23 partners across eight EU member states, the SUPREME consortium will work together to strengthen Europe’s emerging quantum technology ecosystem. -
July 8, 2025Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cities: Mapping Heat Islands and PollutionFrom air temperature monitoring to pollutant analysis: FBK's project evolves thanks to neural networks and new environmental data -
July 1, 2025June 2025: The FBK projects making headlinesFrom microelectronics to railway and IT security, persuasive AI, and agritech: the FBK initiatives that stood out in June.
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May 30, 2025FBK launches the first edition of FBK Pioneers in ResearchFor university students, this is a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a research environment.Applications are open until June 30, 2025. This year’s theme: Quantum Technologies. -
May 8, 2025A Sensor for the Smallest SignalsNicolò Crescini explains a study in the field of quantum technologies published in Nature Communications -
May 5, 202535 Years of the FBK Clean Rooms: From Microelectronics to Communication Technologies, the Roadmap to the Future Is SetThanks to its consolidated experience in the manufacture of silicon sensors, Fondazione Bruno Kessler has won a €50 million grant to develop a new generation of microelectromechanical sensors and systems. Over the next three years, the Foundation will invest a total of €82 million to expand its Clean Rooms. -
May 5, 2025April 2025: The FBK projects making headlinesQuantum technologies and AI research to support to business ideas: our projects covered in the media and publications during April.
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April 8, 2025The Co.scienza eventWhat does conscience have to do with AI and scientific research? We joined Nicolò Crescini and Geopop for an insightful evening to explore this question -
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 1, 2025March 2025: The FBK projects making headlinesFrom research to outreach: AI, data and sustainability in the media and our March events.
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February 4, 2025SPARKLE project kicks off to bring students closer to STEM subjectsThe innovative program, dedicated to the discovery and exploration of the scientific method, will be coordinated by Trento based Fondazione Bruno Kessler -
January 31, 2025January 2025: FBK projects making headlinesAn overview of FBK's innovative projects covered by the media over the past month: historic budget and investments, digital agriculture and cyber hygiene
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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. -
October 29, 2024The Nobel Prize in physics explained by our physicist Federica MantegazziniInterview by Claudio Ferlan, editor of FBK Magazine, on the occasion of the researcher's participation in the “Semplicemente Nobel” event. -
July 2, 2024The European MiSS project has kicked offCoordinated by FBK in Trento, Italy, it will aim to develop quantum devices beyond the state-of-the-art. -
July 28, 2022A vision of future 6G from the point of view of Micro-Nano Hardware componentsWhat a potentially catastrophic failure in a passenger flight, back in 1982, has to do with future visions and prospects of 6G in 2030? This article will address the red wire linking these facts. -
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 17, 2021Three new Directors of FBK have been appointedRichard John Hall-Wilton, Massimo Leone and Mirco Tonin appointed today by the Board of Directors to lead the S&D, ISR and IRVAPP centers -
June 18, 2021A house is not a homeThe story of Omar Hammad Ali, researcher at FBK's Micro Nano Facility, is the ideal emblem to celebrate International Refugee Day, and to underline the Foundation's commitment to the defense and enhancement of human capital from even the most sadly known corners of the planet. -
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 -
February 22, 2021THE “CITY OF ELECTRONS” PROJECT INCLUDED AMONG ANPAL SERVIZI’S SCHOOL-TO-WORK PROGRAM GOOD PRACTICES"The city of electrons" has become part of the catalog "La scuola, che impresa" among the 55 best school-to-work program projects -
December 9, 2020Seeing the invisible with the “FastGhost” quantum microscopeA new research project funded by the European Union, whose partners also include FBK, aims to create a cutting-edge microscopy technique that will lead to important applications -
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 15, 2020FROM FBK THE QUANTUM SIMULATOR OF THE FUTUREThe Bruno Kessler Foundation coordinates EPIQUS, a project funded by the European Commission that aims to develop a new generation "quantum simulator" -
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 -
March 18, 2020FBK AWARDED AT IMAGE SENSORS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE 2020The title of Best Academic Research Team at ISEU 2020 awarded to the IRIS - Integrated Radiation & Image Sensors unit of the Materials and Microsystems Center of FBK -
March 4, 2019FBK technology in space: the TG2 DOSSIER storyAired on RAI 2, Giorgio Pacifici's story showed the best Italian research and technology for the study and exploration of Space. Among the major innovations, the story mentioned also the LOFT device made in the laboratories of the Foundation
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January 22, 2019Riplaid, the first plastic-to-fuel plant is made in TrentinoFrom non-recyclable plastic to Eco Fuel, a fuel oil that meets transportation standards, can be used in existing engines or in industrial plants
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November 6, 2018WORKING WITH A NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATEAntonino Picciotto deals with developing silicon devices for industrial and research applications at Povo-based FBK. He signed one of his studies with Gérard Mourou, the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics
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October 9, 2018More efficient chips with UV lightThe study by FBK researcher Mher Ghulinyan was published in Optica, a scientific journal.
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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» -
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 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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April 23, 2018Here is the high sensitivity sensor to “find” ionsTwo papers signed by researchers from the FBK Center for Materials and Microsystems have been published in Nature -circuit journals
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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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March 7, 2018Is space curiosity or business?At the opening of the Co.Scienza festival, the president of the Italian Space Agency Roberto Battiston and the science popularizer Adrian Fartrade were the protagonists of a lively debate about the ultimate goal of space exploration -
February 6, 2018LIMADOU PROJECT: FBK clean room’s detectors in the Chinese space missionThe data collected by the satellite launched today as part of the Chinese space mission focusing on the study of earthquakes will be analyzed at INFN/TIFPA, the national scientific center of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics set up in collaboration with the University of Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the Province Agency for health services
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September 29, 2017ASviS 2017 Report PresentedThe research on sustainable development in Italy was conducted thanks also to the contribution of Trento-based IRVAPP (FBK)
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July 21, 2017FBK’s Center for Materials and Microsystems as Innovation Partner for SMESThe Center for Materials and Microsystems (CMM) of Fondazione Bruno Kessler has been accredited as KETs Technology Center for SMEs. Nationwide, there are only eight accredited centers besides FBK's CMM.
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May 16, 2017Can smart materials and neural cells communicate?Trento-based Fondazione Bruno Kessler is hosting an international meeting on the new frontiers in neuroscience -
February 9, 2017Quantum science and technologies: the Trentino-based research organizations team up for the European callThe University, FBK and CNR invite local institutions to participate along with the flagship launched by the European Commission for 2018. Objective: to set the stage for the second quantum revolution through an alliance between academia and industry will that promote European leadership in this area. Friday at 5:30 pm in Povo the launch of the Q @ TN Project. Quantum science and technologies: the opportunities for development in a talk by Tommaso Calarco
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February 1, 2017The second quantum revolutionComputers thousands of times faster than the fastest PCs available today; gravitational detectors sensitive enough to find a masked dirty bomb; advanced diagnostic equipment (eg. MRI) available at any primary care outpatient clinic. These are just some of the many applications of the new revolution in modern physics: the second quantum revolution.
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January 12, 2017Japanese leading company chooses FBK to develop their innovative sensorsThe agreement for two more years of collaboration between HORIBA and the Trento-based research center was signed in Kyoto. -
December 19, 2016RF-MEMS technology for 5G applications at CMM-FBKThe upcoming 5G mobile standards will pose challenging demands on hardware components, requiring very boosted performances in terms of high-frequency and wideband operability, low-losses, high-linearity, and so on. The RF-MEMS technology developed at the MST unit of CMM-FBK was recently demonstrated up to 110 GHz, and is a promising candidate to meet the 5G challenges.