Innovation: ENEA and Cnr signed agreement for technological transfer

Cnr President Maria Chiara Carrozza and ENEA President Gilberto Dialuce have signed a collaboration agreement to promote and implement joint national and international R&D projects. The five-year agreement also pursues the valorisation and dissemination of technical-scientific knowledge, the creation, sharing and promotion of research infrastructures, advanced training and supply of services, as well as the transfer of technologies, products and know-how to third parties.

The initiatives mostly concern energy production, transport and distribution as well as technologies and systems for energy storage; new renewable energy sources and carriers, including hydrogen; smart grids and smart sector integration; enabling and digitalisation technologies; renewable energy communities; energy efficiency; space and blue economy; development and application of biotechnologies; studies and applications on the atmosphere, oceans and climate dynamics; sustainability and circularity of production and territorial systems; materials and processes for the competitiveness of the industrial system; nuclear fusion.

The methods and forms of collaboration will be regulated through specific implementation agreements. At an operational level, a joint Steering Committee comprising six members will be established to define the programmatic themes of the agreement.  “I am particularly happy to renew the long and fruitful research collaboration with ENEA and to direct it towards the exploration of scientific and technological fields so important for the future of our societies”, said Cnr President Maria Chiara Carrozza. “The sectors identified, in fact, reflect the challenges research must face in addressing major global changes. We have a long journey ahead of us, which will be enriched by the union of skills and synergies that this agreement intends to consolidate."

 “This alliance between the two major national research institutions provides for strengthened cooperation to identify and develop a portfolio of projects and initiatives for research, development, innovation, training and technological transfer of research outcomes and products,” said ENEA President Gilberto Dialuce. “We are particularly satisfied with this agreement, which allows us to pool skills, experiences, infrastructures and know-how in strategic sectors for decarbonisation and ecological transition and to promote research and technological innovation to encourage the growth and competitiveness of our country".