Energy and the Environment

AeroDron is one of the first Italian startups dedicated to services that use Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS). Since it was founded in 2013, AeroDron has researched and developed solutions in the civil sector, aimed at meeting the requirements of various industries and of public administration, making use of the immense value of the aerial images, using state of the art flight technologies, sensing, vision and post-processing.

Alga&Zyme Factory is an R&D company focussed on the development of innovative biotechnology solutions for systems and processes that improve environmental and economic sustainability within the agro-industrial, agro-energy, cosmeceutical and nutraceutical sectors.

The innovation of Alga & Zyme Factory consists in the combination of two previously independent areas of production - production of microalgae for biomass, and the synthesis of hydrolytic enzymes in tobacco plants - in order to:

REA s.r.l. - Reliable Energy Advisors' operations in the renewable energy sector can be divided into three important areas:

Akkutrack is a startup that produces and markets innovative optoelectronic tools for applications in the concentrated photovoltaic market, known as CPV.

In the field of renewable energies, concentrated photovoltaics is one of the fastest-growing areas. Akkutrack s.r.l. in particular proposes innovative pointing sensors that can improve the performance of a solar concentration system, monitoring and correcting pointing errors, simultaneously measuring direct solar radiation from the sun and increasing the efficiency of the system in terms of energy production.

AlmaPlasma is a company that aims to design, manufacture and market advanced technological solutions in the field of atmospheric pressure thermal and non-thermal plasmas, developed by the Industrial Applications of Plasma (IAP) group at the University of Bologna.

ASE s.r.l. researches and markets new technologies aimed at monitoring subsoil, with a focus on engineering problems related to the stability of natural and artificial slopes in soil and rock, as well as civil engineering in general, and the various geotechnical sectors.

Hydrosynergy was established in June 2010 by biologists from the BiGeA Department of the University of Bologna.