SCIENCE AMBASSADOR

From quantum technologies to online disinformation, from cryptography to digital health, right through to public policy, energy sustainability, contemporary history and many other fields.

These are some of the themes that drive the FBK Science Ambassador community, a peer-to-peer training and discussion programme launched in 2025 that has brought together a diverse group of researchers from the Bruno Kessler Foundation, ready to get involved not only in the laboratories but also in science communication.

They come from the Foundation’s various scientific and humanities centres and reflect the many facets and dimensions that characterise its identity: technological and experimental, social and humanistic, innovation-oriented yet attentive to critical analysis and public impact. It is precisely this plurality of perspectives that constitutes one of the distinctive features of FBK Science Ambassador.

The training programme is run by Feltrinelli Education – Scuola Holden and, through theoretical foundations and practical workshops, focuses on storytelling, public speaking, media relations, content creation and social media strategy. It is not merely a matter of refining communication techniques, but of structurally integrating the narrative and outreach dimensions into the work of researchers.

The advanced training programme on scientific communication is offered each year to dozens of talented young FBK researchers, who thus become the