Enea has designed the first Italian industrial symbiosis platform, as a tool to facilitate the process.

The ENEA methodology is based on a "horizontal" network approach, with the aim of creating synergies and closing the loop between supply and demand for various resources.

The Platform is based on:

• an expert structure that identifies possible solutions of industrial symbiosis
• a complex information structure, also georeferenced, which describes the territory, its structures, the interlocutors and available resources
• a network that connects different interlocutors
• a web interface.

Among other activities and services, Symbiosis is able to send to to each company individual reports containing information on potential matches of interest. It is also developing operating manuals for industrial symbiosis.