Opening of the GNB School

Sport bioengineering exploits engineering principles to evaluate and enhance sport performances and protect athletes’ safety. A timely monitoring of sports and exercise, aimed at improving performance as well as preventing or recovering from injury, is a key part of the contemporary sports and fitness industry and entails the use of technology to collect and analyze data.

Bioengineering potential in this field has been greatly expanded by the rise of bigdata science and wearable technology allowing possible and affordable data collection, for mainstream sports. Transforming raw data into actionable insights requires rooting this transformation into a trans-domain competence which should nurture research development towards bridging the gap between bioengineering development and sports stakeholders.

The XLII GNB school brings students to consider the specificity of the sport domain in problems and applications of biomedical engineering, combining the need for extremely accurate information with the challenge of unfavorable measuring and data analysis scenarios. Indeed, the applications are not limited to elite athletes and high-level sport clubs. Rather, they extend to other contexts where resources may be lacking (e.g., young athletes, non-professional athletes, athletes/persons with disability).

Benefitting from the on-field experience of lecturers, mentors, and keynote speakers, the school will follow a hands-on teaching approach. Students will collaboratively explore the building bricks of defining an athlete’s profile for safe and efficient performance.

The school will widen the perspective on the students bioengineering culture, allowing them to intersect the increasingly important sports monitoring research and practice.