Jun 01, 2022
Strengthening passenger security and preventing attacks with weapons or explosives in subways, railway stations, airports, but also in crowded spaces or meeting places, thanks to innovative surveillance technologies. This is the aim of the DEXTER (Detection of EXplosives and firearms to counter TERrorism) project, financed by NATO as part of the 'Science for Peace and Security Programme' and coordinated at technical and scientific level by ENEA.
Jun 01, 2022
Studying and characterising microplastics in Italian lakes, analysing the microbial communities that colonise their surface and assessing the risks to ecosystems, fish species and human health
Jun 01, 2022
A group of ENEA researchers has tested a new therapeutic approach for the treatment of medulloblastoma, the most frequent brain tumour in paediatric age, as part of the NANOCROSS project supported by the AIRC Foundation for Cancer Research.
Jun 01, 2022
The second edition of the 'Carlotta Award 2022' reserved for female researchers under 40 years of age engaged in the genetic improvement of wheat and other cereals is now open. To participate in the award, applications must be submitted by 15 June 2022.
Jun 01, 2022
To create a European industrial battery supply chain to develop safer, more durable and cheaper storage technologies to support electric mobility and less dependence, in particular on China.
Jun 01, 2022
A platform to promote the diffusion of energy from the sea in the Mediterranean countries: this is one of the main results achieved by the European Blue DEAL project, co-funded with 2.8 million euro by the European Regional Development Fund and the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance and coordinated by the University of Siena, in which 12 partners are participating[1]including ENEA, from 6 countries (Italy, Albania, Cyprus, Croatia, Greece and Spain).
May 19, 2022
AGATUR is the experimental plant in which ENEA researchers have successfully tested a gas microturbine to generate electricity, powered with a methane and hydrogen mix to simulate the effect of injecting green hydrogen into the gas network in a content variable over time. The outcomes of the tests performed at the ENEA Casaccia Research Center (Rome) - where the Italian hydrogen valley is being built – were given on the occasion of the UN World Day of Creativity and Innovation.
May 19, 2022
Improving durum wheat’s ability to tolerate and adapt to environmental stresses is the goal of the project IMPRESA, funded by the Ministry of University and Research with over 700 thousand euro, which includes Italy (ENEA and Tuscia University as coordinator), Turkey (University of Harran), Algeria (University of Ferhat Abbas Sétif and Center de Recherche Scientifique et Technique sur les Régions Arides) and Tunisia (Center of Biotechnology of Sfax).
May 19, 2022
A vivacious and vital sector, the engine of national innovation, capable of withstanding the impact of the pandemic crisis in all its areas of application and a significant increase in the number of companies dedicated to Italian-controlled biotech R&D, with a turnover that, in this sub-group of companies, recorded a + 30% in the black year of the global health emergency: this is what emerges from the annual report Assobiotec-Federchimica and ENEA “Biotechnology companies in Italy.
May 19, 2022
In Italy, the economic value of forests has dropped by 10% due to ozone pollution which has led to a reduction of more than 1% of the forest area destined to timber production, with potential damage that could reach up to 2.85 billion euro (around 870 euros per hectare), as shown in a study conducted by a team of 10 researchers from ENEA, Cnr and the University of Florence, in collaboration with the French satellite services company ARGANS, published in Nature Scientific Reports.
May 19, 2022
A prototype of electrified scaffold to allow stem cells transplantation for spinal cord injury regeneration. This is what is intended to be developed in the frame of the RISEUP European project, carried out by a consortium led by ENEA and composed of Italian partners (Sapienza University of Rome, Rise Technologies srl), as well as Spanish (Universitat Politècnica de València, UPV, and Centro Investigación Príncipe Felipe, CIPF) and French (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS).
May 19, 2022
ENEA's solar "park" is expanding. On the occasion of the World Sun Day, celebrated every year on May 3, ENEA presented a new concentrating solar plant built at the ENEA Casaccia Research Center dedicated to the study, experimentation and validation of materials, technologies and innovative solutions to provide heat for industrial processes from a solar source.
