Unibo structure involved: DIBINEM
Unibo Team: Laura Bragonzoni
Project Duration in months: 36
Start Date: 1/01/2018
End Date: 31/12/2020
Budget: 400.000,00 euro
Unibo Budget: 108.547,00 euro
Partners:
- Coordinator: ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA (Italy)
- P2 ISTITUTO ORTOPEDICO RIZZOLI (IOR) Bologna (IT)
- P3 LAUREA-AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY - VANTAA (FI)
- P4 UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER - COLERAINE (UK)
- P5 SDRUDZENIE ZNAM I MOGA - SOFIA (BU)
- P6 FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN NURENBERG - ERLANGEN (DE)
- P7 Coláiste Mhuire Gan Smál – Limerick (IRL)
Description:
ACTLIFE is focused on the development and dissemination across Europe of ACTLIFE protocol aimed to the secondary and tertiary prevention of osteoporosis consequences through physical activities. In particular the project aims to deal with bone mineral density and fear of falling in people with osteoporosis.
Specific goals are:
- Identification, assessment and sharing of an exercise program, the ACTLIFE protocol for physical activity, based on reviews at European level and declined in terms of dosing in people with established osteoporosis
- Identify proper approach for the involvement of Health decision makers and stakeholders to raise awareness and promote sport and physical activity, implementing the ACTLIFE protocol inside the local and national Healthcare Programs and activating a network for its correct working
- Identify organizational formats to facilitate the participation of people with osteoporosis in physical activity programs, identifying socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental barriers, raising awareness and involving the Health decision makers and concerned stakeholders, to implement and sustain over time the program identified by the first goal;
- Raise awareness and involve the sport community and high education institutions to promote specific courses based on ACTLIFE protocol for people, held by specialists with degrees in physical education, advocating the involvement of policy makers to develop awareness campaigns for healthy life style.
The ACTLIFE results will be disseminated throughout:
- The scientific community will be addressed through scientific publications
- The sport and user associations communities will be informed through specific Open Day events
- The policy makers community will be informed through specific advocacy meeting and thanks to institutional participation and representations inside the ACTLIFE consortium.
- The Public health authorities and health care professionals will be informed through specific ECM events
