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Small-scale composting, technologies for recovering and recycling plastics, monitoring of microplastics in the sea. These are the main achievements of the NETWAP 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.