Jul 05, 2018
An over 30 cm rise in the western part of Ustica due to 1906 and 1924 earthquakes: this is what emerges from a swim survey conducted along the 13 km of the island’s perimeter, as part of the ENEA/University of Trieste project Geoswim, foreseeing total mapping of 23 thousand kilometers of rocky Mediterranean coast
Jul 05, 2018
The most recent studies on the sea level rise of the Mediterranean connected to climate change will be at the center of the first workshop on the topic in Italy. On this occasion new data over the Italian areas at risk of coastal flooding will be released (Rome, ENEA headquarters).
Jun 21, 2018
MAIA lab on advanced materials for producing future 3D printing inks and manufacturing hi-tech components for aircrafts, engine parts and, in perspective, medical prostheses, is born at the ENEA Casaccia Research Center near Rome. Funded with 4 million euro by the Lazio Region, the research and service structure will be available to large industries, SMEs and other applied research bodies.
Jun 21, 2018
A new NATO project, EXTRAS, led by research institutions in Italy and Serbia, will make it possible to detect explosives and prevent terrorist attacks on public transport. The project, funded by NATO’s Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme, will use laser spectroscopy to identify explosive materials on potential bombers.
Jun 21, 2018
Seven “under 40” ENEA researchers, six women and one man, are the winners of the sixth edition of the "Hausmann & Co and Patek Philippe" Award, which also allocated resources for the "Campus of Energies", the new training hub born at the ENEA Casaccia Research Center, near Rome
Jun 21, 2018
With the signing at the Mediterranean Union Secretariat in Barcelona, the European project meetMED kicked off, aiming at increasing energy efficiency and renewable sources in the energy mix of the Euro-Mediterranean area by 2040
Jun 21, 2018
ENEA President Federico Testa and the CEO of ‘Eni gas e luce’ Alberto Chiarini presented in Rome "CappottoMio" a service aimed at the energy requalification of condominium buildings foreesing the installation of the so-called "thermal coat" an efficient and effective technological solution. effective for reducing heat loss of buildings.
Jun 07, 2018
ENEA has inaugurated in its Portici Research Center, near Naples, the supercomputer CRESCO6, the most powerful computing infrastructure in Southern Italy, which plays a very important role in the whole Italian scientific scenario thanks to a computational capacity of 700 thousand billions of mathematical operations per second (700TeraFlops). Professor Jack Dongarra at the University of Tennessee, one of the world's leading supercomputing experts, also attended the inauguration.
Jun 07, 2018
On the occasion of the World Environment Day 2018 dedicated to the fight against plastic pollution, ENEA took stock of research in this sector and invited individual and collective behavior to follow the motto: choose, use, reduce, avoid
Jun 07, 2018
At the start the Italian platform for a circular economy (ICPESP), with the signature of the program today at the ENEA headquarters in Rome, in the presence of President Federico Testa and Fulvia Raffaelli, representative of the European Commission
Jun 07, 2018
A technology transfer platform for biotech companies, providing services on genetic diseases, personalized diets to prevent risk factors and diagnostic systems for an early recognition and treatment of hospital infections, is born in the Lazio region.
May 24, 2018
ENEA launches the new "Proof of Concept" program which foresees the allocation of 2.5 million euros over three years to "bring" the research outcomes of the Agency to industrial use. The fund will provide the Agency's researchers with the financial resources to build industrial prototypes, increasing the level of maturity of the technologies developed in the laboratory. The call for tenders to select the projects to be funded, which will be subsequently selected by a panel of experts, has already started this month.
May 24, 2018
With state-of-the-art optical techniques, ENEA has reconstructed for the first time the energy deposition curve of protons, charged particles used in proton therapy, to accurately map the dose released on tumors. The results were presented at the "LIMS 2018" conference
May 24, 2018
The 6th edition of the award, established by the famous watch brands "Hausmann & Co and Patek Philippe", allocated funds to start a new training hub at the ENEA Casaccia Research Center, just outside Rome, and assigned grants to young researchers of the Agency, who have made significant contribution to research in the fields of energy, new technologies, food safety, health, the environment and climate.
May 24, 2018
Seismic action reduced by over 80% thanks to highly deformable seismic isolation devices in the horizontal direction, which, inserted between the elevated part and the foundation of a building, allow to greatly attenuate the energy transmitted by the earthquake to the structure. "Seismic isolation is one of the most advanced technologies for earthquake protection and is applied to both new and existing buildings",
May 24, 2018
The Cuban Minister of Science Technology and Environment, Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya, visited the ENEA Headquarters in Rome, warmly welcomed by President Federico Testa.
May 10, 2018
A 15% cut in the energy bill with a 40% reduction of the direct solar radiation in dwellings and a lower indoor temperature by up to 3 degrees thanks to plants grown on roofs, balconies and external walls. These are part of the outcomes of a Italian pilot project ENEA has conducted at its research center, entailing improved thermo-acoustic insulation and living comfort, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and reducing the so-called “rain bombs”.
May 10, 2018
ENEA has patented a “microcosm” for growing plants using soil in closed and extreme environments, with an innovative technology capable of mimicking what happens in nature, while allowing plants to reproduce. It will be presented at the “1st Joint AgroSpace-MELiSSA Workshop” (16-18 May, Rome)”
May 10, 2018
ENEA promoted a new initiative for outlining the passage from the conceptual model to a concrete implementation of Smart Cities in Municipalities, through the development of “tailored” measures for slashing costs and easing access to information
May 10, 2018
As part of its development cooperation activities, ENEA is engaged in the project “Professionals without borders” in Senegal, along with the project leader FOCSIV, the African Engineers Association and the NGOs COMI and CPS.