Bilateral Cooperation
The international scientific and technological cooperation is achieved through bilateral agreements, signed between foreign homologous research institutes, in order to implement joint research initiatives on topics of mutual interest.
Such agreements are signed by in accordance with what stipulated in the scientific and technological cooperation agreements negotiated by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with partner countries, and in the absence of any agreement, they are signed in concert with the Ministry itself.
The full list of bilateral agreements and MoUs (17 overall) signed by ENEA and currently in force is reported at the end of this page.
ENEA is also involved in the projects under scientific and technological cooperation Executive Programmes and/or Protocols implementing the bilateral agreements mentioned above.
In the framework of such Executive Programmes, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation selects the Mobility Projects and Projects of Major Importance to be funded over the protocol duration period. A full list of the Executive Protocols currently in force is available on MAECI’s website.
In 2017, within ENEA’s fields of competence, 4 Projects of Major Importance and 5 Researcher Mobility Projects are co-funded by MAECI. A complete list of the Projects of Major Importance proposed by ENEA is reported in the Table here below.
Bilateral Agreements (as of January 2020)
|
Entity / Institution / Association |
State |
Agreement |
Research Area |
Date of Signature |
Duration (years) Expiry Date |
|
The Australian National University ANU Energy Change Institute |
AUSTRALIA |
MoU |
Cooperation in renewable energy and energy efficiency |
28/11/2019 |
2 |
|
UJV Rez |
CZECH REPUBLIC |
MoU |
Nuclear Technologies |
14/11/2016 |
5 |
|
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) |
CHINA |
MoU |
Cooperation in Nuclear Fission an Fusion |
27/12/2018 |
5 |
|
The Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASHIPS) |
CHINA |
MoU |
Technologies for nuclear applications of heavy liquid metals |
28/07/2017 |
5 |
|
Institute of Food Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IFST) |
CHINA |
MoU |
Promotion and expansion of research skills on food science and technologies |
22/12/2015 |
5 |
|
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) |
KOREA |
MoU |
Cooperation in Cultural Heritage Technologies Development |
14/12/2018 |
3 |
|
Industrias Biotecnológica y Farmacéutica (BIOCUBAFARMA) |
CUBA |
MoU |
Cooperation in the field of biotechnology applied to the medicine for people’s and animal’s health and to agriculture |
03/7/2019 |
5 |
|
National Institute of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (INER) |
ECUADOR |
MoU |
Renewables, solar thermodynamic energy and photovoltaics, energy storage, biomass and biofuels, technology transfer. |
13/11/2015 |
5 |
|
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Renouvelables (CEA) |
FRANCE |
Framework Agreement |
Nuclear energy, energy and environmental technologies, security and safety, nanotechnologies |
24/02/2015 |
10 |
|
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sureté Nucleaire (IRSN) |
FRANCE |
Framework Cooperation Agreement |
Nuclear safety and radiation protection |
06/04/2017 |
5 |
|
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) |
INDIA |
MoU |
Renewables, smart grids, generation II and III biofuel, energy efficiency materials |
22/10/2018 |
5 |
|
Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology (MMMUT) |
INDIA |
MoU |
Solar thermal energy, electricity from biomass. Production of ethanol and biodiesel, precious materials recovery. |
28/09/2016 |
5 |
|
Toshiba T&D Europe S.p.A. (TOSHIBA Corporation) |
JAPAN |
Implementation Agreement |
VSC converter for HDVDC System |
22/12/2016 |
31/03/2021 |
|
Colegio de Michoacán A.C. (COLMICH) |
MEXICO |
MoU |
Cultural and Natural Heritage |
02/4/2019 |
5 |
|
Agence Nationale pour les Energies Renouvelables (ANER) |
SENEGAL |
PdI |
Renewables, including bioenergy |
11/10/2019 |
3 |
|
Texas Tech University |
U.S.A. |
Collaboration Agreement |
Research on anomalous heat production in electrochemical systems |
29/06/2015 |
5 |
|
Perma - Fix Environmental Services, Inc. |
U.S.A. |
MoU |
Production of Tc-99m for use in the field of nuclear medicine using the environmentally preferable Perma-Fix process. |
09/01/2018 |
3 |
Projects of Major Importance
Co-funded by MAECI: year 2019)
|
International Organization |
State |
Subject of collaboration |
Fields of competence |
|
Perma-Fix Florida |
USA |
Industrialization of a Tc-99m production line for the supply of innovative generators to the local market |
Radiopharmaceuticals and nuclear medicine |
|
Shanghai Institute of optics and fine mechanics (SIOM) |
CHINA |
Effect of space environment on optical and electronic devices for astrophysical space missions |
Space and Aeronautics |
|
El Collegio de Michoacàn |
MEXICO |
Biomaterials for sustainable cultural heritage restoration by exploitation of multifunctional plant species: Opuntia ficus-indica, Capsicum, etc… |
Technologies applied to cultural heritage |
|
Ecole Polythecnique de Montreal |
CANADA (QUEBEC) |
Widening the borders of imaging spectrometry: innovative optical filters for hyperspectrum remote sensing from space and low-height flights |
Space and Aeronautics |