3D models of bridges and viaducts, platforms for critical infrastructure and sensor networks, but also photogrammetric surveys, drones and training are some of the solutions to make infrastructures safer in the case of earthquakes or other disasters that ENEA presented at the conference “Existing bridges, viaducts and tunnels: research, innovation...
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New technologies for more efficient desalination plants
ENEA and the Italian company SEKO have developed an innovative high pressure pump for reverse osmosis water desalination plants with integrated energy recovery device. This low-cost prototype, created thanks to a POC loan, it’s easy to develop at industrial scale and it’s targeted to small communities, islands and SMEs. The...
Bianca Graziano joins the Scientific Community of the Miami Scientific Italian Community
Dr. Bianca Graziano is an Italian M.D who recently completed her PhD at the University of Miami working in the lab of Dr. Laura Bianchi. She obtained a medical degree in Italy at Universitá degli Studi di Milano in 2017. During her final year of medical school, she joined Dr....
Festival dell’Economia – Trento. “QUO VADIS? The Dilemmas of Our Time”
MAY 23-26, 2024 How can the climate change challenge be faced? Will economic development win the battle against the tightening necessary to beat inflation? Will high public debt eventually destabilise the authority of nations? Is energy transition achievable on the tight timescale dictated by the West? Will the demographic...
Webinar on AI – Funding Research Opportunity
Texas Scientific Italian Community in cooperation with the Center Studies International Economic on European Funds, is organizing under the Auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in Houston, a Webinar on BILATERAL EUROPEAN FUND ITALY – UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Tuesday May 28th at 12:00 CST ...
Sea environment protection, CNR “Gaia Blu” vessel starts explorative campaign
Gaia Blu”, the oceanographic vessel of the National Research Council (CNR), left the port of Crotone at the end of March to start the “ECOREST” expedition designed to acquire new knowledge on deep-sea habitats, which are especially vulnerable, in 3 strategic areas of the Mediterranean Sea: south Tyrrhenian Sea, northern...
ENEA-CERN agreement on innovative nuclear technologies
On the occasion of the launch of the collaboration on innovative nuclear technologies between ENEA and CERN in Geneva, ENEA president Gilberto Dialuce and head of the Nuclear Department Alessandro Dodaro met CERN general director Fabiola Gianotti in Geneva. The two institutes will work jointly on research and development activities...
Arctic: identified mechanisms controlling black carbon concentrations
A new study conducted by researchers at the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy, in collaboration with Stockholm University and ETH Zurich, has identified the mechanisms that control the Arctic transport of black carbon, an air pollutant that contributes to climate warming, while also establishing...
Towards the summer discovering special cones: cyclodextrins
In 2023 the “Bicyclos” project was selected for funding under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions, “Staff Exchange” of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. “Bicyclos” is a project coordinated by the Institute for Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (Isof) of the National Research Council of Italy (Cnr). The project capitalizes on the international...
ForesTEEN: building a resilient European TEEN cultural ecosystem
ForestTEEN is a European cooperation project for research and innovation aims to innovate the cultural offering for the new generations, through a process of participatory observation that experiments with different listening settings. Funded by the European Union (EU) through the Creative Europe Programme, the project brings together a consortium of...