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The culture of movement
Health
Enhances cardiovascular activity, muscle strength, and flexibility
Mental well-being
Reduces stress and anxiety, improving mood and self-esteem
Enthusiasm
Engages, motivates, and inspires you to push your limits
Inclusion
Fosters cooperation, integration, communication, and mutual respect
Respect
Teaches the importance of rules, honesty, and fair play as social values
Discipline
Encourages commitment, consistency, and dedication
Sport in our daily lives
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Moving with the CUSB
The Bologna University Sports Centre offers you the opportunity to discover new passions and improve your physical and mental well-being. It's an active network where the student community and Unibo staff share a love for sports.
Balancing study and athletic careers
With the Dual Career programme, you can access opportunities, benefits, and support.
Physical activity as prevention
Understand how physical activity helps in preventing and managing various forms of diabetes.
At least 150 minutes a week
Italy ranks as the most sedentary country among OECD nations for younger generations and fourth for adults. Engaging in sports has a 50% impact on overall health.
Highlights
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UniBo Motorsport and UniBoAT: the new prototypes from Alma Mater
The new developments have been presented for the electric motorcycle Nemesi, the electric car Athena, which is aimed at autonomous driving, the combustion car that is becoming a hybrid, and Futura, the new hydrogen-powered catamaran.
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From Bologna to Ifakara: Alma Mater delegation in Tanzania
A three-member delegation spent five days at the St. Francis University College of Health and Allied Sciences in the Tanzanian city where a research cluster focused on the healthcare sector has been established, within the framework of the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM) agreement.
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A staff training week on University libraries
Digitization, artificial intelligence, and the green revolution: these are the topics of the international training week "Old and New Challenges for Librarians," which involved twenty-eight university libraries from nineteen countries.
Voices, stories, ideas
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The power of dialogue
“We learn about the other person as well as about ourselves.” The words of the Italian ambassador for the MIRAI Japan’s Friendship Ties Programme.
Khalil Zantou, student at the University of Bologna
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Applied biomaterials from sustainable sources
We try to encourage the use of natural materials even in advanced applications, following the principles of green chemistry.
Maria Francesca, Phd student in Chemistry
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Advice for future students?
Studying with passion, commitment and living this path authentically.
Gaia, degree in Philosophical Sciences
From research to society
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New discovery about Dwarf Nasturtium in Italy
The plant, originally from South America and now extinct in our country, arrived in Italy at the end of the 16th century. This discovery comes from the few Renaissance herbariums that have survived to this day, particularly that of Ulisse Aldrovandi.
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If you yawn, I'll yawn too
New mechanisms underlying imitative behavior, which forms the basis of many complex social interactions, have been revealed. The results could lead to therapeutic applications for patients with neurological alterations and social interaction disorders.
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Research narrated through the PhD Storytelling Lab
The PhD Storytelling Lab is a workshop on popular science writing that narrates the challenges, goals, work, and results of scientific research from the perspective of those who face scientific research every day firsthand.