The eni-MIT partnership covers two main areas, the “Solar Frontiers Center” and the MIT Energy Initiative (Mitei).
This strategic alliance was renewed in 2013. The new agreement, lasting 4 years and with an economic commitment by eni of almost 5 million dollars a year, is focused on the development of new technology for the core oil & gas business, the environment and new generation solar energy.

In February 2011, eni signed a new strategic alliance for research and innovation with Stanford University. The agreement establishes a research programme divided along two main lines:

• new technology for hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir simulation;
• innovative technology for site characterization and environmental protection.

Framework agreements for research and development as well as training have been in place for some time with the “Politecnico di Milano” and the “Politecnico di Torino”. Their main objective of the alliance is to stimulate the generation of breakthrough ideas for technological innovation in core business operations and to develop them into radical innovation projects and real technological breakthroughs. The company is also working with “Politecnico di Milano” to develop new engineering systems for solar power.

eni has also developed a long-term working partnership with the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in the field of scientific and technological research, with projects covering the whole spectrum of eni’s business operations, from upstream and downstream, from renewable energy to the environment.