Presidents of the National Research Council (CNR), Maria Chiara Carrozza, and of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Gilberto Dialuce, have signed a five-year agreement at the national and international level to strengthen the cooperation between the two research centres to promote, identify and develop a portfolio of projects and initiatives concerning the research, development, innovation, training and technological transfer of research results and outcomes to third parties.
The methods and forms of collaboration will be regulated by signing specific implementation agreements. At an operational level, a joint Steering Committee consisting of six members will be set up to define the main topics covered by the agreement.
The agreement includes initiatives covering a wide range of areas that mirror the challenges that research must face to address the great global changes. Specifically, the sectors involved will be energy production, transport and distribution, as well as storage technologies and systems; new renewable energy sources and carriers, including hydrogen; smart grids and smart sector integration; enabling and digitalization technologies; renewable energy communities; energy efficiency; space and blue economy; development and application of biotechnologies; studies and applications on atmosphere, oceans and climate dynamics; sustainability and circularity of productive an territorial systems; materials and processes for the competitiveness of the industrial system; nuclear fusion.
“I am particularly happy to renew the long and fruitful research collaboration that binds us to Enea and to direct it towards the exploration of scientific and technological fields that are so important for the future of our companies,” said CNR President.
“Enea is particularly satisfied with this agreement which allows us to pool skills, experiences, infrastructures, professionalism and know-how in strategic sectors for decarbonisation and ecological transition and to promote research and innovation technology to promote the growth and competitiveness of the Italian economic system”.
