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Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA)

Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development is a public undertaking operating in the fields of energy, the environment and new technologies to support competitiveness and sustainable development.

ENEA is mainly called upon:

• to promote and carry out basic and applied research and innovation technology activities, also through prototypes and product industrialization;
• to disseminate and transfer technologies, encouraging their use in productive and social sectors;
• to provide high-tech services, studies, tests and evaluations to both public and private bodies and enterprises.

To these aims and in the sectors falling within its areas of competence, ENEA:

• carries out complex research, development and demonstration projects, mainly technology and engineering — based, sets up and operates major scientific apparatuses;
• assesses the level of advanced technologies development, as well as their economic and social impacts, also on demand by public administrations;
• promotes collaboration with foreign bodies and istitutions, also for defining technical regulations and participation to major research programmes and international organizations, providing its (specific)expertise;
• promotes, fosters and supports innovation technology processes in the national production system, especially in small and medium — sized enterprises;
• collaborates with regions and local administrations to promote productive development of local resources, through joint actions;
• promotes technical and professional training and competency of researchers, also through ad-hoc agreements with national and international universities.

Projects

• 4Biomass (December 1, 2008 - May 31, 2012)

People: Vincenzo Alfano