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

The ENEA spin-off ICAS, a company also involving leading firms in the superconductivity sector such as Tratos Cavi and Criotec Impianti, has won the 2024 Fusion Technology Transfer Award, promoted by the European Commission, EUROfusion and Fusion for Energy (F4E).

Keeping fabrics and food cool even if the temperature outside is very high and cooling buildings without the use of electric air conditioning and without releasing heat into the surrounding environment can be achieved by an air-insulated metamaterial being studied at ENEA, whose optical properties enable it to reach well 12°C below ambient temperature.

Ensuring the origin and quality of Italian rice with fast, accurate and non-destructive field analyses is one of the outcomes of the project METROFOOD-IT, funded by the PNRR, whose purpose is to provide new tools for producers and consumers.

ENEA has participated in creating a virtual model to train employees, manage deactivating and decommissioning (D&D) activities and perform verifications concerning the final characterization and release phases of nuclear sites. The activity which consists in the development of a “digital twin” (DT), was carried out as part of the European project CLEANDEM, which includes 11 EU countries .

An ENEA study has shown that it is possible to improve the environmental sustainability of insect farming to make products to be employed in a variety of sectors, including animal (feed) and human (food) nutrition. The outcomes, published in the international journal Agriculture, are based on a change in dietary supplementation of the first insect approved by the EU for human consumption, the Tenebrio molitor, better known as the “meal moth”.

Wireless electrical stimulation of stem cells to promote the regeneration of spinal cord injuries — this is the innovative technique developed by ENEA researchers as part of the European project RISEUP.