Apr 28, 2022
An anti-vibration platform offering hich-tech protection from the effects of daily passing traffic and the threat of earthquakes to the "Sarcophagus of the Spouses", one of the greatest masterpieces of Etruscan art that have come down to us, which can be admired in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome. This is what a multidisciplinary team comprising ENEA experts, the company Somma engineering and Roma Tre and Sapienza universities is working at, as part of the project MONALISA, which has ranked first among the 81 participants in the LazioInnova tender funded by the Lazio Region.
Apr 28, 2022
Small-scale composting, technologies for recovering and recycling plastics, monitoring of microplastics in the sea. These are the main achievements of the NETWAP[1] project financed by the Italy-Croatia Interreg call for proposals with a budget of about €1.5 million, which in Italy involved ENEA, Unioncamere Veneto, Fondazione Fenice Onlus of Padua and GAL Molise verso il 2000. In Croatia, participants included the Municipality of Zadar (project leader), the Ruder Bošković Institute and Čistoća, the Zadar province company responsible for waste management.
Apr 28, 2022
Olive oil, wine and pasta, key elements of the Mediterranean diet protected by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, will be able to count on the climate services developed by MED-GOLD, the main EU research project on climate and agriculture involving 16 partners in 6 different countries, including ENEA for global coordination and Barilla for pasta in Italy.
Apr 28, 2022
Assessing the health effects of airborne particulate levels in relation to the microclimate in different indoor work environments. This is the aim of the study launched by Inail with ENEA, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Cagliari and CNR. "This is a new scientific investigation as part of our 'VIEPI - Integrated Assessment of Indoor Particulate Exposure' project, which studies the correlations between atmospheric particulate measurements and microclimate conditions in indoor environments, in order to understand the implications of occupational exposure", says Armando Pelliccioni, a researcher at INAIL and scientific coordinator of the VIEPI project.
Apr 28, 2022
The climate in most of the Mediterranean, the rest of the EU and North and Central America is currently not suitable for the establishment of tropical fruit flies, although their potential geographical distribution varies significantly. These are the findings of international research involving institutions from four different continents, including ENEA, which studied the effects of climate change on the invasiveness of these insects.
Apr 28, 2022
ENEA has developed an innovative drone to search for and identify radioactive leaks, useful in cases of radiological and nuclear emergencies. Equipped with a measuring instrument called a Geiger Muller, it will allow ionising radiation to be measured remotely in specific areas, thus protecting humans from possible radioactive contamination.
Apr 14, 2022
Some anti-Covid measures adopted at the beginning of the pandemic – such as the lockdown and traffic restrictions – led to a dramatic decline in air pollution, with consequent health benefits as well. An international study on air quality trends in 47 European cities—including Rome, Milan, Paris, London and Barcelona—highlights this. Carried out by numerous research institutions, including ENEA, the study was published in Nature.
Apr 14, 2022
There is a shortage of many raw materials and when these can be found, prices are exorbitant. The causes are varied: the growing increase in demand; the climate crisis, which diminishes the capacity of ecosystems to provide resources and intensifies certain needs; the pandemic, which has imposed a lengthy setback on the global economy; and the conflict in Ukraine, which has exacerbated Europe’s energy fragility. The solution exists and is called the circular economy. But it has not taken off yet.
Apr 14, 2022
Measuring air pollution and landscape visibility in Italian nature parks. This is the objective of project “Visibility”, coordinated by the Forestry, Environmental and Agri-food Command Unit (CUFA) of the Carabinieri in partnership with the ENEA Air Pollution laboratory. The project will apply, for the first time in Italy, the procedure adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for measuring visibility in America’s nature reserves.
Apr 14, 2022
An innovative building material with competitive prices, equipped with high levels of thermal and acoustic insulation, extremely resistant to fire and mechanical stresses and with characteristics that make it suitable for use in other sectors.
Apr 14, 2022
To develop new computer codes through innovative, automatic and secure methods thanks to the Software Heritage universal archive of source codes. This is the objective of the “Bologna Big Code Lab”, a joint knowledge and experimentation laboratory born thanks to an agreement between ENEA and the University of Bologna, in partnership with Software Heritage and with the support of iFAB, International Foundation Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Human Development.
Apr 14, 2022
A network of 67 thermometer sensors positioned from 5 to 60 meters in depth to control the temperature of the Tyrrhenian Sea and monitor the impact of climate change on the marine ecosystem and coastal dynamic processes. This is what has been achieved by the MedFever project, which unites ENEA as a scientific partner, the MedSharks association as coordinator, the Lush company and a group of volunteer scuba divers.
