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ACTIVE: the digital app for personalised coaching

Posted on 08/02/202409/02/2024 by admin

Yesterday in the morning, at the Lecco Campus, the ACTIVE App was presented. It is a personalised coaching application created as part of ActivE³ – Everyone, Everywhere, Everyday, a Major Emblematic Project funded by Fondazione Cariplo and Regione Lombardia that aims at promoting an active lifestyle through the use of technology. The app is the result of the work of the researchers of Sensibilab – Laboratory for Sensors and Biomedical Systems at the Lecco Campus, ASST Lecco, ATS Brianza and Villa Beretta – Presidio di Riabilitazione dell’Ospedale Valduce.

The app has a dual function: for the user, it is a digital personalised training guide that includes health tips; for researchers and health professionals, it is a useful data platform to check the effectiveness of this tool in improving/maintaining well-being and for designing new prevention initiatives aimed at the community.

We are approaching the new era of digital therapies. Today, as part of the Active3 project, we start experimenting a prevention service based on an App aimed to promote and monitor active and nutritionally balanced lifestyles for the over-60 population.

A clinical trial phase will now start, involving 200 healthy individuals in the 60-80 age group for the next 18 months. The trial will be validated by a screening of the participants’ health status and will include cognitive questionnaires on health status and nutrition and motor, psychometric and neuro-psychological tests as well as blood samples, which will be used to assess the effects of using the app on the participants’ overall health. The ACTIVE app will act as a motivational tool to encourage more static participants to get active and to stimulate those already active to maintain a healthy lifestyle by providing feedback on their activity and personalised hints.

Thanks to Fondazione Cariplo, Regione Lombardia and the network of technological and clinical partners, we are developing an integrated system in the local area that we hope will be used and disseminated after the end of the project in favour of a real 5P medicine (Preventive, Predictive, Participative, Personalised and Psychosocial) of the future.
Prof. Giuseppe Andreoni, scientific coordinator of the Sensibilab laboratory,

SETS: training for digital skills

Posted on 07/02/202409/02/2024 by admin

The activities of the SETS (Social Economy Transition Skills) training project, part of the Horizon Europe CSA program “Green and digital skills and training needs for a just transition”, of which the Department of Management Engineering was the winner in 2023, have officially started.

The aim is to support, test and plan modules and plans for the development of digital competences within social economy organisations.

The specificity of this project is part of the European Commission’s vision of “Twin transition”, in line with the Transition Pathway of the social economy, which consists in the modernization of production processes through the development of solutions aimed at making society and its industries increasingly sustainable, but also digital and technologically developed.

The project, which will last 24 months, aims to develop training in a dual perspective: on the one hand, training for cooperatives, social enterprises and non-profits, on the other hand, the training of the trainers of ICT solution providers, of those who deal with capacity building in the digital field on the specificities of the social economy, in a perspective of mutual cross-fertilization between social economy organizations and technical “trainers” on the identity issues of the social economy.

The role of Politecnico di Milano, as the only university within the consortium, will be to do research first of all on WP 2, for the analysis of skills gaps, the development of training models (WP3) before piloting and testing with the various organizations and partners involved. Successful modules will be formalized more explicitly through a certification.

The researchers of the Department of Management Engineering involved to date in this skills development project are Mario Calderini and Francesco Gerli.

Lead partner of the project is Diesis Network (Belgium). The partners are, in addition to Politecnico di Milano, All Digital Aisbl (Belgium), Open Impact Srl (Italy), Social Good Accelerator (France), Fundacija Za Izboljsanje Zaposlitvenih Moznosti Prizma Ustanova (Slovenia), European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (Belgium).

TRACES: higher education in the field of aviation safety

Posted on 07/02/202309/03/2023 by admin

In the European Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA) 2019 annual report, in-flight icing was identified as a major problem for large aircraft.

Aircraft manufacturers must therefore demonstrate safe operation in freezing conditions before any new product is commissioned. This involves significant costs as the inherent complexity of freezing processes means that certification authorities place little trust in simulations and therefore require wind tunnel tests and flight tests to be carried out in freezing conditions.

TRACES (TRAining the next generation iCE researcherS) is a European joint doctoral network whose main objective is to train a group of experienced researchers in the field of in-flight icing, capable of mastering the different disciplines required to analyse the complexity of phenomena related to airframe icing and its mitigation in aircraft and aircraft engines.

Within TRACES, researchers will take part in various kinds of training activities: practical research activities, periods of work with non-academic partners and participation in scientific and additional soft skills courses and workshops.

The coordinator of TRACES is Alberto Guardone, professor at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology of the Politecnico di Milano; 13 other universities and companies in the sector are members of the consortium.

The TRACES project website

PROJECT BENEFICIARIES

Politecnico di Milano
Technische Universitat Braunschweig – TUBS
Technische Universitat Darmstadt – TUDA
Office National d’Etudes et de Researches Aérospatiales – ONERA
École Polytechnique – ECPOL

INDUSTRY PARTNERS

Airbus Defence and Space Gmbh
Airbus Helicopters S.A.S.
Airbus Operation S.A.S.
Dassault Aviation
Eurac Research
General Electric Deutschland Holding Gmbh
Leonardo
Safran Aircraft Engines
Safran Aerotechnic

ADVISORY BOARD

EASA – European Aviation Safety Agency
FAA – Federal Aviation Administration
NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NRC – National Research Council
DLR – German Aerospace Center