LIFE + FRELP PROJECT LIFE + VALIRE PROJECT VEREF PROJECT PHARMA NANO TECH PROJECT Updated: April 2015 Experimental Glass Station The Experimental Glass Station is a joint stock consortium company with a majority of the Venice Chamber of Commerce with the task of promoting the technical progress of the national glass industry through surveys, studies, research, analysis. It is one of the highly qualified institutes defined and envisaged by law no. 46 of 1982 on Applied Research. In 1993 it was accredited with number 0073 by ACCREDIA (National Laboratory Accreditation System) as a Test Laboratory in compliance with UNI-EN 45000. It is currently accredited on the basis of UNI CEI EN ISO / IEC 17025: 2005. ACCREDIA , operating according to this standard, it guarantees, through periodic technical checks, the competence and impartiality of the Laboratory in the execution of the "accredited" tests. The list of such tests, described here in "Performance and Services", is shown on the website www.accredia.it . It is authorized to operate as a Notified Laboratory (No. 1694) at the European Commission for the certification of glass products for construction in accordance with Regulation (EU) No. 305/2011 on CE marking. ORpear since 1956 in Murano in the premises made available by the Municipality of Venice and is the only body that institutionally deals with the technical and scientific problems of the entire glass industry (hollow, flat, fiber, technical, handmade, raw materials, refractories, ovens, etc.), carrying out the function of transferring the results of research, developed independently and in collaboration with other Italian and foreign centers and universities, to the industrial practical application of the results achieved. Since 2000, it has had further laboratories at the Venice-Marghera Science and Technology Park. As of 1 August 2009, it has 48 employees, including graduates and graduates, and occupies a covered area of about 2000 m 2, intended for laboratories, offices and libraries. The 750 m 2 Marghera site houses the glass testing laboratories for building and the mobile laboratory for environmental investigations. The Experimental Glass Station, together with seven other institutes from as many different product sectors, operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Economic Development. It is partly financed by the contribution that Italian companies are obliged by law to pay in proportion to their respective production capacity and the value of the imported goods; and partly from self-financing for the provision of services and various contributions. The Station is managed by a Board of Directors , appointed by the Shareholders' Meeting. The activity of the Experimental Glass Station is divided into two main lines aimed at technical assistance, and industrial research and promotion . D vailable also a specialized library open to scholars and publishes a scientific journal . The equipment supplied, the experience and training of the staff, the availability of mobile laboratories have been designed to be able to intervene in a timely manner in order to make the intervention potential immediately operational and to provide concrete and rapid answers to the questions posed by the companies.