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Advanced Applications of ENEA Technologies

ENEA intends to apply technologies developed for a specific sector to akin or totally different sectors. Technologies already applied so far have produced remarkable results even for their immediate social impact. In line with its institutional commitments, ENEA mainly conducted multidisciplinary research activities focusing on radiation physics and biotechnologies. Despite the previously-consolidated techniques and procedures, this resulted into a strong technological innovation for those very sectors in which they migrated such as, for instance, laser physics applied to cultural heritage conservation or radiation physics applied to nuclear medicine.

ENEA is particularly dedicated to developing the following STRATEGIC PROJECTS:

  • Technologies for Cultural Heritage
    Objectives: Setting-up of a national lab network for risk diagnostics, monitoring and prevention by improving the facilities existing in its research centres and creating a shared information system; training of professional staff required for the sector’s development; fine-tuning of technologies for the fruition of cultural heritage.
  • Health Technologies
    Objectives: Development of basic know-how, methodologies, procedures and technologies with the aim of transferring the national health system and industries products, drugs and leading systems for the diagnosis and therapy of high-social-impact pathologies – radiobiology and technologies for radiotherapy; technologies and biomarkers for medical diagnostics; plants as biofactories for biodrug production).
  • Technologies for Food Quality and Safety
    Objectives: Development of biotechnological methods and tools for higher-quality production; process optimisation in order to preserve the nutritional content and characteristics of food; development of raw materials and functional products for human health; development of omic-technology diagnostics; setting-up of a Centre for Biological Resources (Biobank).

as well as the following LINES OF ACTIVITIES:

  • Quality of chemical and biological measurements
    Objectives: Development of metrology applied to chemistry and biology and transfer of stringent metrology criteria related to: characterisation and qualification of materials and processes, exploitation and conservation of the environmental and cultural heritage, safety and health, agro-food sector.
  • Security Technologies
    Objectives: Integration of automation and control technologies with optical technologies for generating products and/or services needed to help intelligence and surveillance and security authorities prevent terrorist attempts, monitor at-risk demonstrations, keep sensible plants or sites under surveillance.
  • ICT and Computing
    Objectives: Enhancement of computing facilities and technologies for instrument networking and geographically-distributed data management for internal and external as well as public and private users. The main application sectors are: engineering, bioinformatics, materials science, nuclear fusion, critical infrastructure protection, the environment, and climate.
  • Omic Technologies and New Agro-industry Project
    Objectives: Development of new methods for nucleic acid sequencing and fractionation of complex genomes; development of technologies for quantitative measurement of gene expression and profiling of proteins and metabolites; within Pharmaplanta consortium: biofactory for antibodies, antimicrobial peptides and vaccines, use of vegetal systems for antigen administration.