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Mar 22, 2018
A new project, RASAD– Food Safety Purchasing Networks supported by Italy’s Burkinabe Diaspora– has been started up. ENEA provides TAMAT –the project’s leading NGO– with its scientific and technical support for developing and validating sustainable farming production techniques.
Mar 22, 2018
At the ENEA Frascati research center a study day has recently taken place, organized for the Italian Defense Higher Studies Institute (IASD). Now at its third edition, the study day was intended for Italian and foreign senior officer, and public and private executives belonging to the 69th training course organized by IASD.
Mar 08, 2018
The PNRA-National Antarctic Research Program, with the logistic coordination by ENEA and the scientific coordination by the CNR, wraps up the 33rd summer expedition and opens the 14th winter campaign. The last team left the Italian Station “Mario Zucchelli” based in Terra Nova Bay while at the French-Italian Station Concordia a small winter-over crew will remain in complete isolation for the next eight months, running experiments on glaciology, chemistry and atmospheric physics, astrophysics, astronomy, geophysics and biomedicine.
Mar 08, 2018
SafeSchool 4.0, the app for smartphones and tablets which measures energy consumption and seismic vulnerability of school buildings -simply and at affordable costs - is freely downloadable from App Store and Google Play. Developed by ENEA experts with the aim of supporting technicians and energy auditors in carrying out energy and structural surveys of school buildings, SafeSchool 4.0 allows to obtain an initial assessment for designing energy efficiency and safety measures.
Mar 08, 2018
High-tech solutions developed at ENEA for the 3D reconstruction and high-resolution restitution of some fragments of the Frieze of the Sphinxes, decorating the first row of apses at the Basilica Ulpia in ancient Rome, characterized by a pattern of sphinxes sitting in heraldic position and with candle holders behind them
Mar 08, 2018
March 30 is the deadline for submitting an application to the first edition of the Carlotta Award 2018, the prize established by ENEA and Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL which will grant 5000 euro to women scientists committed to research on wheat, a staple food in the human diet.
Mar 08, 2018
At the start the partnership between ENEA and Seeds&Chips, the global food innovation summit (MiCo - Milano Congressi, 7 - 10 maggio 2018). ENEA will act as scientific advisor at the event which every year in Milan brings together representatives from companies, the academic community, institutions and media and opinion leaders from all over the world, to discuss food innovation and agrifood issues.
Mar 08, 2018
ENEA and EcoAzioni are Italian partners in the WinWind project, aimed at increasing social acceptance and enhancing the development of onshore wind energy in ‘wind energy scarce regions' (WESR). For Italy, Lazio and Tuscany are target regions taking advantage of the experience gained in the regions with the greatest diffusion of wind energy: Sardinia and Apulia
Feb 22, 2018
The mission Amadee-18 has officially started in Oman, in the Arabian Peninsula, with a simulation of Mars landing and the beginning of the isolation phase. Until February 28, five “would-be astronauts”, will conduct experiments simulating the conditions of the Red Planet with the objective of testing tools and procedures for future space missions. Italy will feed the future crew members with fresh food supplied by a hyper-technological vegetable garden, developed by ENEA, ASI (Italian Space Agency) and the Milan University, as part of the project “HortExtreme”.
Feb 22, 2018
Security of core services such as transport, electricity and water passes also through big data analytics. This is the objective of Obserbot, a software which will make it possible by acquiring and processing digital information on the internet about the damage suffered by critical infrastructures, due to malfunction, natural events and terrorist attacks. Developed by a team of ENEA researchers, it has been recently presented at the conference “Big Open data analysis”.
Feb 22, 2018
The project BIOCOSI’, developed at ENEA jointly with the Italian start-up EggPlant, aims at putting a stop to energy, food and materials waste by using waste water from the cheese industry to manufacture biogradable and compostable food packaging, such as cheese containers or milk bottles.
Feb 22, 2018
Innovative laser technologies and nanomaterials to create low-consumption devices which will project high resolution images of radios and satellite navigation systems on car’s dashboards without the need for single displays. This is the objective of the European research project MILEDI
Feb 22, 2018
ENEA is part of the all-Italian team which conducted the restoration of the Triton Fountain in Malta thanks to a collaboration agreement with the company De Feo Restauri in Rome. The synergy between a highly specialized private company and a public research body gave a hi-tech imprint to the restoration of the symbolic monument of the Maltese capital, initiating an effective technological transfer activity from the laboratory to the company.
Feb 08, 2018
An alliance between scientists and big companies to preserve Italian food excellence such as pasta, olive oil and wine from the impact of climate change. It’s called MED-GOLD, the “Gold” of the Mediterranean, and it’s a European research project devoted to grape, olive oil and durum wheat, under threat by pests and shifting climate patterns due to climate change. Coordinated by ENEA, the project has three leading industrial partners: Barilla for pasta, the Spanish DCoop for olive oil and the Portoguese Sogrape Vinhos for wine
Feb 08, 2018
A typical hystorical building of the Italian Apennine zones, reinforced with innovative, easily applied, low-cost Italian-made solutions, resisted earthquake accelerations twice as strong as those of the most violent earthquakes that hit central Italy in 2016. This is what emerges from the results of the shaking tables tests
Feb 08, 2018
Creating a network of high-level European infrastructures for a coordinated development of biofuels research: this is the objective of the European project BRISK2, comprising 15 partners among universities, research organizations and industries of 11 European Countries. In addition to the Turin Politecnico, Italy is also represented by ENEA
Feb 08, 2018
Next 27th February, the MATS (Multipurpose Applications by Thermodynamic Solar) Plant Opening Ceremony will take place in Borg El Arab (Alexandria, Egypt). The event is the acme of the work carried out by a consortium gathering European and Egyptian partners under a co-funded EU FP7 project . The project is the outcome of collaboration between research centres and industrial partners, coordinated by ENEA, that has led to an innovative thermodynamic solar plant.
Feb 08, 2018
The first phase of the path taken by ENEA with a call to host the Divertor Test Facility (DTT), the largest national fusion research hub foreseeing investments for 500 million euro and over 1500 operators, closed with the presentation of nine proposals. Abruzzi, Campania, Emilia-Romagna with a site in tandem with Tuscany, Latium, Liguria (with two sites), Piedmont, Apulia and Veneto, presented formal applications.
Feb 08, 2018
Innovating 3D and CAD technologies at the heart of the initiative conducted by the ENEA Bologna Research Center to train new professional figures aiming to join jewelry companies in the Arezzo district.
Jan 25, 2018
American-Italian alliance in the sector of nuclear medicine of radiopharmaceuticals capable of minimising toxicological and side effects in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The agreement was signed in Rome by the founder of Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Louis Centofanti, and ENEA President Federico Testa. The agreement has a strategic importance since it will allow to address the forthcoming shortage of Technetium due to the closure of the Canadian National Research Universal Reactor, today leading producer of the isotope globally