The conference aims to contribute to an interdisciplinary reflection on the concept of kindness and the terms that refer to its semantic field, particularly in the study of cultures and religions and with reference to the dynamics that affect coexistence in urban spaces.

This seminar presents DiRECT, a novel corporate tax microsimulation model covering 4.3 million firms across nine EU countries (2016-2019). It simulates tax bases, liabilities, and key deductions using accounting data, producing firm-level effective tax rates and book-tax differences. Validated against administrative data, DiRECT enables analysis of tax burden distributions and evaluation of corporate tax reform impacts.

FoReSt is a new initiative promoted by FBK-ISR, aimed at PhD students and early-career researchers in Religious Studies. Its goal is to provide an open and welcoming space for in-depth discussion of individual research trajectories.

The Language Technology Research Highlights 2025 (LT@FBK2025) event aims to bring together scientists, students, practitioners, and enthusiasts who are interested in language technologies and want to know more about the recent research achievements at Fondazione Bruno Kessler on this topic.

Sonia Marzadro, Davide Azzolini and Olga Gorodetskaya will speak at one of the sessions dedicated to research entitled: ‘Data Literacy and Data Use in a Digital Age.’ The seminar will be held in English.

Experts often choose between numbers and language when communicating estimates. We find that incentives to persuade increase language use by 25–29 percentage points. Experts slant language more than numbers, and receivers are effectively persuaded. Our findings suggest experts leverage language's imprecision to communicate slanted messages, with implications for expert communication in policy and public discourse.