Projects

Nuclear fusion, in Pisa a research project to make the ITER reactor safe

The University of Pisa will study the main safety system of the ITER nuclear fusion reactor, the infrastructure currently under construction in the South of France, the result of a titanic international...

Publication date 08/08/2017

Source Università degli Studi di Pisa

Sustainable architecture, from the University of Bologna a project for Chile

The University of Bologna and the University of Concepción, Chile, will collaborate for the promotion of sustainable log cabins in Chile, in the context of the Proyectar, manufacturar y construir...

Publication date 08/02/2017

Source Università degli Studi di Bologna

Paolo Nespoli back in space for the third time. The VITA mission has begun!

The space veteran has returned to the stars. Paolo Nespoli’s VITA mission has begun and will keep the Italian astronaut of the European Space Agency-ESA aboard the International Space Station-ISS...

Publication date 07/31/2017

Source Redazione ResearchItaly

Mediterranean: ENEA laser in action to monitor the health of the sea

Monitoring the health of the Mediterranean and checking the accuracy of the data collected by the SENTINEL-3 satellite of the European Space Agency – ESA on temperature, colour and height of sea...

Publication date 07/28/2017

Source ENEA

Road accidents, launch of the INRIM SURFACE project for night visibility

Italy’s National Metrology Institute – INRIM has received funding from the EMPIR programme for European research on metrology, which aims to reduce the risk of road accidents over the next...

Publication date 07/27/2017

Source INRIM

Geological history of Rome reconstructed by a team of INGV and ISPRA researchers

The study entitled A review of the stratigraphy of Rome (Italy) according to evidence from geochronologically and paleomagnetically constrained aggradational successions and tephrostratigraphic data conducted...

Publication date 07/26/2017

Source INGV

African Rift Valley, UNICA coordinates the FLOWERED project for water defluoridation

FLOWERED, de-fluoridation technologies for improving quality of water and agro-animal products along the East African Rift Valley in the context of adaptation to climate change is a project developed by...

Publication date 07/25/2017

Source UNICA

Polimi to participate in the Sharing Cities project

The Polytechnic University of Milan will be involved, through the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies-DAStU and the Department of Energy-DENG, in the Sharing Cities project, an initiative...

Publication date 07/24/2017

Source POLIMI

Area Med, food and water resources: Italy in the forefront in the PRIMA European programme

The strategic programme called PRIMA, Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area, has been recently launched nationally. It aims at integrating research and innovation policies in...

Publication date 07/21/2017

Aeronautics, half plane, half helicopter: here is the 3D-printed convertiplane

It can fly as a traditional airplane and take off as a helicopter. Moreover, the new generation convertiplane will have an innovative transmission system developed with 3D printing. This will be possible...

Publication date 07/20/2017

Source Politecnico di Milano

Clean energy: POLIMI takes a step forward in the BIONICO project to produce hydrogen from biogas

Big steps forward have been made in the development of BIONICO – or BIOgas membrane reformer for deceNtralIzed hydrogen produCtiOn – the project coordinated by the Polytechnic University of...

Publication date 07/19/2017

Source POLIMI

More nature in the city, Bologna involved in the EU Connecting Nature project

“Bringing cities to life, bringing life to cities” is the motto of Connecting Nature: an innovation action funded by the European Union with approximately 12 million euro, which has began...

Publication date 07/17/2017

Source Città metropolitana di Bologna

Sustainable beaches: Ca’ Foscari coordinates a project to save Venetian dunes

The 2 million euro project called Redune is aimed at protecting the dunes of the Venetian coast and is coordinated by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and co-funded for 60% by the European Commission...

Publication date 07/14/2017

Source Ca' Foscari

North Pole: the High-North 2017 campaign has begun

Eighty-nine years after Commander Umberto Nobile’s expedition, the Italian Navy returns to the North Pole with the scientific expedition High-North 2017.

Publication date 07/13/2017

Source CNR

Coronary heart disease, from ENEA thinner resorbable vascular scaffolds

The Bi-Stretch-4-Biomed European project for the development of thin resorbable scaffolds for vascular surgery has recently started under the leadership of ENEA-Italian National Agency for New Technologies...

Publication date 07/12/2017

Source ENEA

Environment: ENEA to coordinate EuNetAir international project

The development of low-cost anti-smog sensors is at the centre of the EuNetAir-European Network on New Sensing Technologies for Air international project coordinated by ENEA-Italian National Agency for...

Publication date 07/10/2017

Source ENEA

EU-China, MycoKey project coordinated by ISPA-CNR launched in Beijing

A new way to address and manage the issue of mycotoxin contamination in food: this is the aim of the MycoKey project, launched in Beijing, China, at the IPPC AAS – Institute of Plant Protection of...

Publication date 07/07/2017

Source CNR

Gravitational waves: green light to the LISA mission

The creation of the first space-based gravitational wave observatory that can be used by researchers around the world: this is the goal of Europe’s LISA-Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission...

Publication date 07/06/2017

Source INAF

Renewable Technologies, EGP-IMMCNR agreement: new ENEL Innovation Lab in Catania

The ENEL Innovation Lab at Passo Martino, near Catania, will host the laboratory dedicated to the development of solar cells and innovative, very-high-efficiency photovoltaic systems, with a special focus...

Publication date 07/05/2017

Source CNR

Earthquakes: SEISMOFAULTS scientific project to monitor the Strait of Messina now underway

Monitoring and closely exploring seismic faults in the Ionian Sea and the Strait of Messina to evaluate earthquake predictability is the aim of the new scientific project called SEISMOFAULTS. Launched...

Publication date 07/03/2017

Source CNR