ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

While the Concordia base welcomes the winter expedition personnel the Zucchelli station closes, but the summer campaign will continue until March on the icebreaker Laura Bassi

Improving safety and making cities more liveable with AI monitoring of pedestrian flows in crowded areas is the objective of a study ENEA conducted in Milan as part of the project CityFlows, funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), whose outcomes were published in the scientific journal “Urban Science”. Concerning pedestrian mobility, ENEA researchers analysed videos acquired through a recording system installed by the Azienda Mobilità Ambiente e Territorio (AMAT), which filmed the flow of passengers at the main entrance of the station and at two subway access points for

A consortium of 17 international partners of the European TraceRadon project, which includes ENEA with the National Institute of Metrology of Ionizing Radiations (INMRI), the Institute of Radioprotection and the Laboratory of Observations and Measurements for the Environment and Climate has developed new measurement tools for monitoring greenhouse gases and ionizing radiation.

Developing innovative radioactive waste management solutions is the goal of the European project PREDIS[1], funded with more than 23 million euro by the Horizon 2020 program, which comprised 47 partners from 17 countries, including seven from Italy: ENEA, Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN), Ansaldo nucleare, Nucleco, Sogin, Politecnico di Milano and University of Pisa.

ENEA has patented, jointly with the University of Messina, an innovative system that quickly destroys harmful microorganisms by puncturing their membranes. To have the exclusive right to use the patent, ENEA has created the spin-off AR-IOS, which is developing a low-energy prototype that kills bacteria, yeasts and molds in fresh food without altering its quality. The technology can be applied to various sectors, including the agri-food industry, where it would allow to guarantee products with excellent organoleptic characteristics at lower production costs.

State-of-the-art tools and facilities, kitchen-labs, supercomputers, advanced computing, hi-tech lasers, technology halls and living labs. More than 110 researchers from 5 ENEA Research Centers and 8 national institutions involved in agrifood research and innovation are provided by  METROFOOD-IT, an infrastructure coordinated by ENEA and funded by the PNRR with about 18 million euro, most of which already invested.