This holiday season, ten small businesses will be selected and featured at Bank of America’s Inaugural “Small Business Holiday Village.” Winners of the Bank of America Pitch competition, hosted by StartUP FIU, will receive a $2,000 prize, will be featured in the Miami Herald, and will showcase their products at The...
Patented low-cost technique for battery testing
An innovative and economical method to determine the state of health of the single components of batteries, allowing to study their aging dynamic and decide when to discard them, was patented by three researchers at the ENEA Systems and Technologies for Sustainable Mobility Laboratory, who validated the new method both...
Antarctica: 37th Italian expedition begins in Covid-free mode
The first crew members have landed in Antarctica, marking the official start of the 37th Italian research expedition, which fully resumes its scientific and logistical activities after the heavy limitations imposed to the previous mission by the coronavirus emergency. The 2021-22 Summer Campaign will last 4 months, involving 220 technicians...
OTB – Only The Best Awards Film – Miami Film Festival, awards “The child is hiding in the woods”
The short film by Lutey film – produced by Massimiliano Maffei, Francesco Simon and Francesco Maffei – won the award for “best thriller”, “best original story” and “best debut performance” (Pietro Maffei) OTB – Only The Best Film Awards is a bimonthly online award that recognizes outstanding productions from around...
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, a versatile geochemical tool being used in a wide range of applications
A laser may not be the first tool most geoscientists think to use when analyzing geological samples, but the technique known as laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) holds great potential for illuminating the geosciences. It’s a very simple technique: by rapidly pulsing a high-powered laser at any given sample, a plasma...
Agroindustry: ENEA developed the first photoacoustic laser for food fraud detection
“SafeFood”, the first photoacoustic laser system for detecting adulterated foods, developed by ENEA, is available to food industries and large distribution chains. The prototype can detect in real time contaminants on untreated samples of small amounts of product. “This laser system, designed to be installed in production lines, can be...
Select Florida, Virtual Foreign Direct Investment Expo
Florida’s first-ever virtual event focused on attracting foreign direct investment, November 30, 2021 to December 2, 2021 Enterprise Florida will host Select Florida Expo 2021, Florida’s first-ever virtual event focused on attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to the state. This online interactive event will showcase Florida’s communities and regions,...
PMI DAY 2021: The Twelfth National Day of Small and Medium-Sized Italian Companies in the USA
Piccola Industria, the Organization of Confindustria (the General Confederation of Italian Industry) aimed to promote the development and growth of SMEs, organizes the National Day of Small and Medium Enterprises – PMI DAY every year since 2010. This is an open day for Confindustria SMEs, focused on students...
Driving energy transition through electric mobility on line event
October 12, 2021 11:00am EDT According to the analysis provided by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its latest report, “Global Energy Review 2021”, carbon dioxide emissions due to transport, despite growing more slowly in recent years, still represent 24% of total emissions. Road vehicles are responsible for almost...
Connext 2021 in-person or virtually
Connext is Confindustria’s national industrial partnership meeting; a 2-day event organized with the aim of strengthening the business ecosystem in a horizontal and vertical dimension. Connext is a space of growth for productive supply chains and for companies of all dimensions, including start-ups. Confindustria puts into place the most strategic...