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“Space is an increasingly strategic sector due to its potential for innovation, technological progress, economic development and much more ” said Simonetta Cheli, appointed in January 1, 2022, Director of the European Space Agency (ESA) Center for Earth Observation Programmes (ESRIN) in Frascati -the first woman to fill this role- after a 30-year career in the space sector .

Researchers from the EUROfusion consortium achieved record-breaking 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy at world-leading Joint European Torus (JET), the largest and most powerful operational tokamak in the world at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) site in Culham, Oxfordshire (UK).

Researchers at the ENEA Meteo-Climatological Observatory in Antarctica will be able to study climate variations by observing polar clouds starting this year, thanks to a state-of-the-art instrument to monitor the cloud cover and measure the height of cloud layers.

Fincantieri and ENEA signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at identifying areas of common interest and developing a research and innovation program portfolio. The partnership will include different areas, among which the followings stand out: energy efficiency, renewable energy generation systems for the production, transportation and distribution of hydrogen, fuel cells, the circular economy, management and control strategies for Smart Ports and Smart Cities, materials technologies and remediation actions for sustainability in marine and terrestrial environments.

SUPERcraft is an innovative web platform of advanced design and digital craftsmanship designed to share highly technological tools and services and guarantee companies the product personalization from conception to manufacture, conducted as part of a project, co-funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region, which includes ENEA (with the CROSS-TEC Laboratory of the Bologna Research Center), Romagna Tech (coordinator), Mister Smart Innovation, UniBo (University of Bologna) and UniMoRe (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia).

SCENA is a new software to calculate ammonia emissions in agriculture and livestock developed by ENEA as part of the ES-PA project.