• INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
  • European Union Activities
    • EURATOM
    • Projects Funded by EU Programmes
    • European Technological Platforms
    • Committees and Groups
    • Associations and Networks
    • ENEA - EU Liaison Office in Brussels
  • Bilateral Cooperation
  • Multilateral Cooperation
  • International Initiatives

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

EUROPEAN UNION ACTIVITIES

The European Union (EU) sets out to become the world’s most competitive knowledge-based economy, fostering growth and employment, with knowledge and innovation at the service of growth.

To face up to this challenge, the European Union valorises national research activities and pools resources when research activities would otherwise be too weak and fragmented.

In this sphere the EU offers, mainly to member States, the possibility of taking part in programmes that usually cofinance transnational projects in sectors within the sphere of Community competence as per the Treaty establishing the European Community and the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom).

Among EU instruments expressly designed to improve competitiveness, programmes dedicated to the areas of research, energy and the environment are of particular importance. The key role of research and innovation in creating employment and growth and for ensuring that economic development is ecologically sustainable has been recognised with a 75% increase in the research budget for the period 2007-2013 in comparison with the period 2000-2006.

For many years ENEA has participated not only as a project partner in European programmes but also in decision making processes to define programmes, making available its experts for working committees and groups and keeping in touch with EU bodies through its Liaison Office in Brussels.

ENEA’s activities are thus focused chiefly on the following sectors:

• EURATOM
• Projects funded by EU Programmes
• European Technological Platforms
• Committees and Groups
• Associations and networks