The program aims to train highly qualified professionals capable of designing and implementing innovative research programs and socio-educational services in public and private institutions, fostering the development of knowledge and skills in research in education and health promotion from a transdisciplinary perspective. The program aims to achieve the following objectives, which relate to the various facets of the cultural and scientific foundation of the study and research program:
Encourage in-depth exploration of the conceptual core of pedagogy and the socio-cultural and sports sciences involved in the study of inclusive and sustainable educational contexts.
Encourage in-depth exploration of issues related to the connection between social networks, social capital, and health.
Encourage in-depth exploration of issues related to the connection between social inequalities and health.
Develop skills useful for research paths aimed at analyzing and implementing integrated training and prevention processes.
Promote the acquisition of a strategic vision of the interconnections between educational processes and digital media within the framework of the European frameworks on digital citizenship skills.
Provide skills in intergenerational, intragenerational, and intercultural educational communication.
Promote the acquisition of educational methodologies for interventions (observation, consulting, planning) in the service (group work, analysis of an educational service) and in the community (networking, training programs).
Provide psychopedagogical skills in the areas of motivation; typical and atypical cognitive and communicative development; language production, comprehension, and learning; categorization processes; learning processes; communication skills; social cognition and inferential processes; memory; creative processes; assessment of individual differences; emotional processes; group dynamics; intercultural psychology and anthropology; and integration.
Provide in-depth skills related to the assessment of psychophysical well-being
Develop tools for planning interventions to promote behaviors geared toward health promotion and a culture of sustainability
Provide skills in understanding the role of the body as a semantic and educational vector and in historical-cultural perception and representation
Provide skills related to the design and implementation of complex socio-educational projects, social intervention programs, and public policies aimed at individual and collective well-being
Provide skills for evaluating the impact of educational interventions with reference to inclusive processes
Develop skills to develop educational profiles for integrated local development
Ability to identify the relationships between the education system, economic structures, and the territorial context, with particular attention to new aspects of local development
Identify similarities, differences, and interactions in the determinants of motor development and physicality across the lifespan
Integrate quantitative and qualitative research approaches
Provide cross-curricular skills to enhance the role of physical and sports activities in the social and professional world
Activate collaborations with various public, private, and international research sectors to fund and disseminate scientific results
Promote research synergies in motor and sports sciences in connection with other disciplinary fields
Develop highly qualified technical and scientific professionals oriented toward applied research relevant to environments and technologies for inclusion, physical activity, and health
Train researchers capable of designing and managing technological innovation processes in the fields of social inclusion, physical activity, sports, and health
Train researchers to design and manage original research projects in the field of assessment and monitoring of physical activity and sports, with a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on aspects related to sports performance and health, including through the development of digital systems, devices, and technologies
Train researchers to design and manage research projects and training programs with an inclusive, intercultural perspective, geared toward the sustainable development of communities, institutions, and regions
Create a generation of researchers and professionals in the field of human movement sciences and education, capable of collaborating and competing in European and international initiatives.