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From 18 till 21 November 2025 the workshop for the conclusion of the 1st year of the European Defence Fund’s technological challenge on human language technologies (HLT) was hosted at the Brno University of Technology . The EDF-funded project ARCHER, led by Airbus Defence, is the organiser of the HLT technological challenge; while other 3…

Al via il Convegno “Cybersecurity e infrastrutture sanitarie nell’era della transizione digitale e dell’Intelligenza Artificiale”, organizzato da Fondazione ICSA presso la Sala Folchi dell’Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni Addolorata (piazza San Giovanni in Laterano 76, Roma). Il Convegno ha l’obiettivo di confrontarsi sulle principali metodologie di prevenzione e/o mitigazione degli effetti dei cyber attacchi all’ecosistema Sanità e…

From October 1st to 3rd, 2024, Zanasi & Partners participated in the kick-off meeting for Project P101, held in Noordwijk, Netherlands. Project P101 is part of the EU’s CBRN Centres of Excellence Risk Mitigation Initiative and it aims to enhance the protection and security of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Critical Infrastructures across 19…

    On 15th March 2022, pop AI project has organised its first online workshop (webinar) presenting the preliminary findings regarding AI functionalities in support of Civil Security and controversies mapping.   pop AI project is a 24-month Coordination and Support Action (CSA) funded by Horizon 2020 and coordinated by the National for Scientific Research…

The President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin opened the IX Moscow Conference on International Security held on June 22-24, 2021. The conference is organized by The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and is devoted to discussing issues of strategic stability, global and regional security. The central topics for discussion are contemporary threats and…

MODENA, 16/01/2020 – Il progetto PYTHIA (Predictive methodologY for TecHnology Intelligence Analysis) ha svolto la sua seconda testing session a Bruxelles, presso la sede dell’EDA (European Defence Agency), il 3 e il 4 Dicembre. Il progetto PYTHIA è stato finanziato nel contesto del programma PADR (Preparatory Action on Defence Research), atto a finanziare progetti in grado di incentivare…

Ing. Alessandro Zanasi will be a keynote speaker at the “EU Funding for Defence and Security” event, organised by the European Academy in Brussels on December 2-3, 2019. On that occasion, Z&P’s President will deliver a presentation on “Strategic Technology Foresight in Defence – Experiences and Outlook 2020”, presenting activities and developments of the EDA-funded…

Zanasi & Partners officially supports HackIstanbul 2019, an international cybersecurity event which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, in September 2019, within the context of the Teknofest event. HackIstanbul 2019 CTF (Capture the Flag) contest will gather thousands of hackers from 132 countries worldwide to exhibit their skills. Hackers’ skills will be pushed to the limits by advanced real-life…

MODENA, 27/02/2019 – The ECHO project (European network of Cybersecurity centres and competence Hub for innovation and Operations) is one of four Pilot projects, launched by the European Commission, to establish and operate a Cybersecurity Competence Network. Amid keynote presentations from supporting representatives of EU agencies and industry, the project was officially launched at the Conference…

Zanasi & Partners’ President, Mr. Alessandro ZANASI, will participate as keynote speaker to the “1st European Conference on EU Funding for Defence and Security Projects”, which will take place in Berlin, Germany, on the next 27th and 28th September.     Organised by the European Academy for Taxes, Economics & Law, the event will gather…

Zanasi & Partners officially supports HackIstanbul 2018, an international cyber security event which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, in September 2018, within the context of the Teknofest event.     HackIstanbul 2018 CTF (Capture the Flag) contest will gather thousands of hackers from 132 countries worldwide to exhibit their skills. Hackers’ skills will be pushed to…

On the 25th-27thJune 2018, Zanasi & Partners participated to a showcase of the BODEGA project, organised during the SDW Conference and Exhibition 2018. Hosted at the Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Centre, a major conference venue located at the heart of London, the event provided the BODEGA consortium with the opportunity to present project results to…

PRESS RELEASE EU border security: Zanasi & Partners participates in a new research project funded by the European Commission   MODENA, 25/06/2018 – In the face of an increasing number of travellers, migration flows and terrorist threats exert an unprecedented pressure on the European authorities in charge of border control activities. The TRESSPASS project, through which…

Zanasi & Partners and Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, in collaboration with the Italian Defence General Secretariat – National Armaments Directorate, have organised a workshop dedicated to “European Strategic Technology Foresight”. The workshop will take place on the 21st of June 2018, at the Arsenale Militare Marittimo in La Spezia, Italy, and will be hosted within SeaFuture 2018, one…

  PRESS RELEASE Cybersecurity for the financial sector The European Commission funds the international research project FINSEC   MODENA, 05/06/2018 – The FINSEC(Integrated Framework for Predictive and Collaborative Security of Financial Infrastructures) research project – funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme, and aimed at improving cybersecurity in the financial sector- has…

The PYTHIA research project has officially kicked-off. The kick-off meeting was held on the 14th March 2018 at the headquarters of the European Defence Agency, with the presence of EDA’s Chief Executive Mr. Jorge Domecq.   Representatives from the organisations participating to the PYTHIA research project pose for a photographic session with EDA’s Chief Executive Mr. Jorge Domecq…

Zanasi & Partners has attended SMI2G 2018, the traditional meeting of the European security research community, which takes place yearly in Brussels. The 2018 edition – sponsored by EARTO, SEREN3 and EOS – was hosted by the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) and ran on the 1st and 2nd February.     During the event, Z&P’s Fabio RUINI…

VISEO, and the whole consortium behind the EC-funded SAFFRON project (Semantic Analysis against Foreign Fighters Recruitment Online Network), organise in Brussels a workshop titled “3 facets of radicalisation through the looking glass”. The event is organised in collaboration with other EC-funded research projects: TRIVALENT (Terrorism pRevention Via rAdicaLisation countEr-NarraTives), PRACTICIES (Partnership against violent radicalization in the cities)…

The European Defence Agency has officially announced the signing of a Grant Agreement – worth nearly €1 million – for the Strategic Technology Foresight action to be carried out under the EU Preparatory Action in the field of defence research. The Grant Agreement has been signed between EDA and the Italian-led consortium behind the project proposal PYTHIA…

An article written by Zanasi & Partners’ CEO, Mr. Alessandro ZANASI, and dedicated to the cyber security research initiatives launched by the European Union in the latest years, has been published today on ICT Security Magazine.     Alessandro Zanasi provides a comprehensive overview of the main cyber security challenges that the European Union has been facing…

The TRIVALENT consortium is proud to announce the release of the first issue of “TRIVALENT Notes”, the official newsletter of the TRIVALENT (Terrorism Prevention via Radicalisation Counter-Narrative) project. TRIVALENT Notes – Issue no. 1 (October/November 2017) can be downloaded from here.

Kindly hosted by CEA in its headquarters, representatives from all the European organisations part of the BODEGA consortium have met in Paris from the 27th to the 29th November 2017 in order to assess the work carried out so far and make plans for the future activities to be performed. Zanasi & Partners was represented…

Zanasi & Partners’ CEO, Mr. Alessandro ZANASI, delivered a speech during the conference “The challenges of radicalization: the role of the institutions, religious communities and civil society”, organised in Rome within the context of the TRIVALENT project.     During his speech, titled “A journey into the use of social media for security purposes”, Mr. Zanasi presented…

Zanasi & Partners, as participant to the European security research project TRIVALENT, is delighted to invite you to the conference titled “Europe and the challenges of radicalisation: what answers?”.   The conference will take place on the 24th of November 2017, from 9:00AM to 1:45 PM, at the “Aula Magna” of the Università Roma 3…

Zanasi & Partners’ CEO, Mr. Alessandro ZANASI, attended the “Building Alliance – Preventing Terror Conference”, organised in Brussels by the Counter Extremism Project.     During the event, Mr. Zanasi has had the opportunity to interact with former Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs – now MEP and Chair of European Parliament subcommittee on Security and…

Fabio RUINI, coordinator of Zanasi & Partners’ research activities, participated to the “Visioning Conference” organised within the context of the EC-funded NewHoRRIzon research project.   Hosted in the premises of the Fondation Universitaire in Brussels on the 5th and 6th October, the event gathered a selected group of Horizon 2020 experts in order to discuss how to…

Alessandro Zanasi, Fabio Ruini and Alessandro Bonzio, from Zanasi & Partners, have published a scientific article on the International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering, titled “Intelligence Analysts’ Training Through Serious Games: The LEILA Project”.     The article takes inspiration from the work carried out during the LEILA project, a research project co-funded by the…

Zanasi & Partners’ CEO, Mr. Alessandro ZANASI, has been invited to deliver a speech at SMART 2017, the Summer School on Computational Social and Behavioural Science organised in Paris by the Sorbonne Universités within the context of the SMART Labex project. During his speech, titled “IT-induced Influence and Decision”, Mr. Zanasi discussed about the issue of…

A scientific article co-authored by Zanasi & Partners’ CEO Alessandro Zanasi and Fabio Ruini, titled “Using Social Media in Crisis Management. SOTERIA Fusion Center for Managing Information Gaps” has been presented at FUSION 2017, 20th edition of the International Conference on Information Fusion, held in Xi’An, China, from the 10th to the 13th July 2017.     The…

PRESS RELEASE   ROME, 22nd June 2017 – The EC-funded research project TRIVALENT has officially started with a conference dedicated to “Europe and the challenges of radicalisation: what answers?”, held at the Italian Chamber of Deputies.   TRIVALENT (Terrorism pReventIon Via rAdicaLisation countEr-NarraTive), entirely funded by the European Commission within the framework of the Horizon…

Dr. Fabio Ruini, responsible for Z&P’s cyber-security activities, attended in Brussels the Annual Generaly Assembly of ECSO (European Cyber Security Organisation) held on the 21st June 2017.     The event represented the opportunity for summarising the activities carried out by ECSO and its members in the previous year and for deciding on the entrance…

Zanasi & Partners, as participant to the European security research project TRIVALENT, is delighted to invite you to the conference titled “Europe and the challenges of radicalisation: what answers?”.   The conference will take place on the 22nd of June 2017, from 4:00PM to 6:30PM, at the Chamber of Deputies (Sala del Mappamondo, Piazza Montecitorio…

Mr. Alessandro Bonzio has represented Zanasi & Partners and the BODEGA project consortium at the Joint Exploitation Event, carried out in Paris, at the Institut de la Gestion Publique et du Développement Économique – IGPDE (Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances) on the 19th May 2017. Mr. Bonzio has delivered a speech exploring the exploitation potential of the…

On the 19th of May 2017, Zanasi & Partners will represent the BODEGA consortium during a Joint Exploitation Event that will see the participation of representatives from 5 EC-funded security research initiatives:   ACXIS (Automated Comparison of X-ray Images for Cargo Scanning); BODEGA (Proactive enhancement of human performance in border control); C-BORD (Effective Container inspection at BORDer control points);…

On the next 15th of May, on the premises of University of Rome “La Sapienza”‘s DIS (in via Ariosto, 25), it will be hosted an event organised by ECSO (European Cyber Security Organisation) and dedicated to the world of Italian SMEs.   Since the beginning, ECSO has recognised the strategic role played by SMEs within the cyber security ecosystem. Because of…

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On the 23rd of February 2017, Dr. Fabio Ruini and Mr. Daniele Pinotti, on behalf of Zanasi & Partners, took part in Barreiro, Portugal at the final exercise of the SOTERIA project. SOTERIA (Proactive Enhancement of Human Performance in Border Control) is a three-year research effort funded by the European Commission under the FP7 programme. Its aim is innovate citizens’ and public…

PRESS RELEASE Countering radicalisation: the European Commission funds the TRIVALENT research project Modena (MO), January 16th 2017 – The European Commission has officially approved the funding of the security research project TRIVALENT, aimed at countering radicalisation and violent extremism.   Threats to European security increasingly come from single individuals who reside in Member States’ territory,…

Press release Zanasi & Partners joins ECSO   Modena (MO), Italy, 4 November 2016 – Zanasi & Partners is proud to announce that, as of today, it has become a full member of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO).     Founded in 2016, ECSO brings together the key stakeholders from the European cyber security…

On the 21st and 22nd of June 2016, Zanasi & Partners took part in a field study carried out at Rome Fiumicino airport within the context of the BODEGA project.   BODEGA (Proactive Enhancement of Human Performance in Border Control) is a three-year research effort funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme.…

On the last 15th and 16th February, the European consortium running the SOTERIA project has organised in Kuopio, Finland, a two-day event part of the SOTERIA campaign of experimentation (COE).   Zanasi & Partners, who participated to the event with Fabio RUINI and Simone BUSOLI, successfully tested its MS2A (Multilingual Social Stream Analysis) application in different simulated…