The ENEA Frascati Research Center (Rome) hosted the first meeting of the “G7 Working Group” on nuclear fusion, which originated at the G7 meeting on climate, energy and the environment held at the Venaria Palace (Turin) under the Italian presidency.

ENEA and Fondazione Leonardo - Civiltà delle Macchine ETS have signed a collaboration agreement to promote awareness of the role of technological and scientific advances for civil society and stimulate debate on its impact and benefits.

ENEA and EF Solare Italia - Europe's leading photovoltaic operator - are setting up in Scalea (Cosenza), Calabria, a state-of-the-art agrivoltaic park composed of plants with different technological layouts, equipped with high-efficiency double-sided photovoltaic panels and advanced sensor systems, as part of the “High Efficiency Photovoltaics” research project of the 2022-2024 three-year implementation plan of the National Electricity System Research - MASE-ENEA Program Agreement. The electricity produced will either be stored or used to desalinate brackish water for irrigation.

A study by ENEA and University of Tuscia (coordinator) has shown that tomato industrial by-products exhibit a considerable amount of beneficial molecules.  The results of the study have been published in the journal “Food Chemistry” and compare, for the first time, the different nutritional and functional properties of tomato pomace, i.e. skin and seeds (equivalent to 20 percent by weight), obtained from the varieties San Marzano and Sun Black - the latter with its characteristic purple pigmentation - and the Colorless fruit epidermis type with transparent skin.

The European Commission has funded with 5.5 million euro the third phase of the project meetMED, developed by MEDENER to advance the transition to climate-neutral economies in the southern Mediterranean. MEDENER is the Mediterranean Association of National Energy Management Agiencies whose president is ENEA Director General Giorgio Graditi and whose secretary general is Roberta Boniotti, also from ENEA. From 2018 to date, it has coordinated the first two phases of the project meetMED which involves eight Mediterranean countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon).

ENEA has developed a UV irradiation system to evaluate the resistance of space materials exposed to solar ultraviolet radiation outside the Earth's atmosphere. The activities were conducted by researchers at the Frascati Research Center in collaboration with the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and the Italian company BEAMIDE.