Brussels – In the last three years, the EU-funded research and innovation projects of ENEA, in particular under the Horizon 2020 program, grew by 80% over the period from 31 in 2014 to 55 in 2016. Again in this period , the projects of the Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development have achieved a 20% success rate, about double the European average (11.8%). This is what emerges from the report “ENEA Contracts with the European Commission”, just published, highlighting a total of 154 ENEA participation projects in progress in 2016, totaling almost 40 million euros for the Agency. The major partner countries in European projects are Germany and France, followed by Spain and the United Kingdom. (9colonne)