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

On August 5 Pietro Barabaschi - Director-General of ITER- visited the ENEA Research Center and the DTT site in Frascati.

"Biolube" is an innovative platform created by ENEA in the Trisaia Research Center (Matera) to produce advanced bio-lubricants and biofuels, intended to boost decarbonisation in various sectors, including air transport. The presentation of the infrastructure took place on the occasion of the celebrations for the 60 years of the ENEA Trisaia Centre and was attended by the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin and the Minister of European Affairs, cohesion and PNRR Raffaele Fitto with a video message, ENEA president Gilberto Dialuce and ENEA general director Giorgio

A biodegradable patch treating wounds thanks to a patented ointment embedded into its nano fibers has been developed by ENEA and Nanofaber, an ENEA spin-off, with the aim of reducing the frequency of dressing changes and, consequently, pain and the risk of infections. The outcomes of the innovative research were published in the magazine “Pharmaceutics”.

Developing new policies to make the implementation of the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) of buildings more effective and defining an integration strategy with the new SRI (Smart Readiness Indicator) index, which rates the intelligence of buildings, is the objective of the European project tunES, funded by the European Commission, comprising seven national energy agencies from as many EU states - including ENEA for Italy - and other partners, including the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio in Italy and the German company Empirica (coordinator).

An ENEA and CREA research team has demonstrated that kiwifruit plants[1] treated with UV rays are more resistant to pathogens. In particular, over 60% of the plants treated showed reduced sensitivity to the main kiwi disease, the so-called "bacterial canker".

Over 4,300 schools, 70 thousand students and 5,600 teachers were involved in initiatives that include the monitoring of 92 stretches of beaches in the 2022/23 school year alone, detecting environmental parameters in approximately 2 thousand sampling points, as reported by the project Guardiani della Costa, promoted since 2017 by the Costa Crociere Foundation and conducted for the technical-scientific part by ENEA, the Aquarium Foundation of Genoa, the School of Robotics, Civicamente and the Ligurian Marine Observatory for Fisheries and the Environment (OLPA ).