THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA (UNIBO), was founded in 1088 and is considered the oldest university in Western Europe. Nowadays, it remains one of the most important institutions of higher education across Europe with around 85.000 enrolled students, 11 Schools, 33 research departments, 3000 academics and 3000 administrative staff. University of Bologna is a comprehensive Higher Education Institution located in the Emilia-Romagna region, in the center-north of Italy. It is located in 5 Campuses, the main one being in the city of Bologna and 4 additional campuses are located in the Romagna region, in the city of Forlì, Cesena, Rimini and Ravenna. University of Bologna is today the most internationalized of all Italian universities. Since the beginning of the Erasmus Mundus Action II Programme (2007), UNIBO has been involved in 51 consortia (Lots) exchanging and managing more than 500 students and scholars. The research fields of the Department for Life Quality Studies as a whole give particular importance to an approach focused on health prevention in order to better meet the needs of a society experiencing an increasing life expectancy, which, however, must not be considered simply as a quantitative increase. The main objective, as underlined also by the EU, must be to add life to years”. What becomes crucial is the issue of lifestyles that are not merely “conservative” or exasperatingly “spectacular”, but creative (e.g. sport and fashion): ways of behaving by which the individual, given the opportunity to acquire a critical self-awareness, is able to appreciate, define and communicate his or her identity. Thematic priorities of the Department are therefore the fundamental disciplines that can be included in the “Life Sciences” (and that pertain to the biological and chemical fields) able to take advantage of new and emerging research opportunities regarding the individual’s health and prevention. This way, scientific foundations are laid for protective/preventive actions able to fight major wellbeing pathologies also in a gender perspective. The research activities are carried on in a multidisciplinary environment aimed at evaluating human movement in different application contexts, such as kinesiology, joint biomechanics, sports medicine, promotion of lifestyles.
LAURA BRAGONZONI
She is Junior assistant professor at the Department for Life Quality Studies at the Alma Mater Studiorum
University of Bologna, in the Scientific Disciplinary Sector M-EDF / 01 (Methods and teaching of motor
activities).
Phd in disciplines of physical activities and sports University of Bologna.
Teacher of evaluation kinesiologic, human kinesiology, Theory and Methodology of Human Motion at the Sciences and Techniques of Preventive and Adapted Physical Activities school and Orthopaedic Technicians school– University of Bologna. She is professor member of PhD Science and Culture of Well-being and Lifestyles.
Member of Organizing Committee in several conferences. She has excellent organization and management skills. She is author of 34 papers on international Journal and presentations in national and internationalcongress. Reader in Musculoskeletal Diseases.
Her research mainly focuses of evaluation of joint kinematic by inertial sensors, motor capture and RSA, promotion physical activity for healthy lifestyles.
She is a member of Italian Society of Motor and Sport Sciences. Moreover, she had coordinated the different project with industry. For University of Bologna, she is the coordinator of “Metacos project” with INAIL. In Erasmus Plus – Sport, she is the coordinator of European project “ACTLIFE”
She will be coordinator and in particular she will work in review, definition PAIR protocol, evaluation intervention multicenter study and dissemination.
PASQUALINO LATESSA MAIETTA
Diploma in Physical Education and in Kinesiology. Degree in Education for people with special psychomotor development. Degree in Sports Science and in Sciences and Techniques of Preventive and adapted physical activity. Associate professor in the scientific field of Methods and teaching of motor activity, employed by the Department of Sciences for the Quality of Life - Campus of Rimini. Coordinator of the Master of Science in Management of physical activities and sports. Professor of Fitness and physical activities for health, Theory, Technology and Education of motor activity in adulthood and old age and Systematics of motor activity for physical fitness and health, University of Bologna. Consultant to local authorities and health facilities for the kinesiology and the construction of facilities for physical activity in leisure and well-being. He organized scientific meetings and coordinated research activities in the field of physical activity for health and leisure. He worked as a lecturer at scientific conferences on topics related to Fitness and Wellness, mainly in adulthood and old both in prevention and in functional recovery. He is Kinesiology territorial delegate of the National Union of Kiniesologists and a member of several professional associations for the prevention and health. Author and co-author of several publications in national and international journals.
STEFANIA TOSELLI
Confirmed researcher in “Anthropology” in the Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, Scientific disciplinary sector: BIO/08 Anthropology.
Teaching activity in the fields of Anthropometry in the First cycle degree programme in Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Bologna and in Second cycle Masters degree programme in Sciences and Techniques of Sports Activities, University of Bologna.
Her research activities is in the field of Human Biology and Anthropometry. Principal activities include the study of current populations, with specific reference to weight status, body composition and fat distribution, hydration status and body image perception in different population, in relation to age, sex, physical activity and lifestyle. In particular, research concerns growth, ageing, kinanthropometry, human body composition evaluation, bio-cultural diversity in contemporaneous multiethnic society.
She is member of “NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)”, a network of health scientists around the world that provides rigorous and timely data on major risk factors for non-communicable diseases for all of the world’s countries.
CLAUDIO STEFANELLI
Full professor of Biochemistry at the University of Bologna (Italy), Director of the Department for Life Quality Studies. Academic board member of the Specialization School of Sports Medicine. Member of the Academic Board of the PhD program in Science and Culture of Well-being and Lifestyles. He was Director of degree programs of Exercise and Sport Sciences, Sciences and Techniques of Preventive and Adapted Physical Activities, and Sciences and Techniques of Sports Activities from 2010 to 2018.
Teaching activity in the field of Exercise and Sports Biochemistry in the first and second cycle degree programs of Exercise and Sport Sciences and in the Specialization School of Sports Medicine.
Author of 127 full papers in international Journals and books. Coauthor of two textbooks. Member of Organizing Committee in several National and international conferences. Referee for international journals and grant proposals.
GIUSEPPE BARONE
Bachelor’s Degree in Science of Physical Activity and Sport at the University of Palermo. Master Degree in Sciences and Techniques of Preventive and Adapted Motor Activity at the University of Bologna with the thesis:” Effectiveness of proprioceptive training in patient with cerebellar ataxia after traumatic brain injury, through Delos Postural Proprioceptive System”.
His research focuses on evaluation of proprioception, motion capture, promotion physical activity for healthy lifestyles.
Assistant supervisor of different master’s degree thesis in Sciences and Techniques of Preventive and Adapted Motor Activity. Co-author and speaker at national and international conferences.
ERIKA PINELLI
Bachelor’s Degree in Science of Physical Activity and Sport at the University of Palermo. Master's Degree in Sciences and Techniques of Preventive and Adapted Motor Activity at the University of Bologna. Research fellow at the Department for Life Quality Studies University of Bologna. Research focuses on assessment of joints kinematics, motion capture, promotion physical activity for healthy lifestyles. Assistant supervisor of different master’s degree thesis in Sciences and Techniques of Preventive and Adapted Motor Activity. Speaker at national and international conferences. Member of the international and national association.
RAFFAELE ZINNO
Bachelor’s Degree in Science of Physical Activity and Sport at the University of Bologna with the thesis:” Nutrition and supplementation to improve the performance and physical well-being of football players”. Master's Degree in Sciences and Techniques of Preventive and Adapted Motor Activity at the University of Bologna with the thesis:” Kinematics assessment of total knee arthroplasty “posterior stabilized” during a lunge using the dynamic RSA technique”.
Currently, he is a PhD student in Science and Culture of Well-being and Lifestyle in the Science for Quality of Life Department of the University of Bologna. His research focuses on assessment of joints kinematics, motion capture, promotion physical activity for healthy lifestyles.Speaker at national and international conferences. Member of the international and national associations.
He published studies in different international scientific journals.
