ENEA

ENEA is the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, a public law body aimed at research, technological innovation and provision of advanced services to businesses, public administration and citizens in the fields of energy, environment and sustainable economic development.

ENEA has highly qualified personnel, advanced laboratories, experimental facilities and instrumentation of excellence for the implementation of projects, studies, tests, evaluations, analyses and training services with particular reference to product and process innovation and the exploitation of results to contribute to the development and competitiveness of the Country System.

Since its foundation in the '60s, its strengths are applied research, technology transfer and technical and scientific assistance to companies, associations, territories, central and local administrations: also for this reason, unlike other research bodies, the institutional reference is the Ministry of Economic Development.

The areas of specialization are energy technologies (renewable sources, storage, smart grids) where the Agency is also the coordinator of the National Energy Technology Cluster, nuclear fusion and safety (where the Agency is the national coordinator for research), energy efficiency (with the National Agency for Efficiency), technologies for cultural heritage, seismic protection, food safety, pollution, life sciences, strategic raw materials, climate change. Among the emerging issues, ENEA supports the production system and public authorities (Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Economic Development in particular) in the transition towards circular economy and resource efficiency.

To strengthen its activities, ENEA collaborates with several national and international research organizations and institutions such as Texas Tech University, Standford Research Institute, New Delhi University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ICTP, TWAS, and participates to technology platforms and networks such as EERA (European Energy Research Alliance), ECRA (European Climate Research Alliance), MEDENER and Enterprise Europe Network, the largest network of services supporting competitiveness and innovation for SMEs.