The University Aix-Marseille, TechnoSport Faculty of Sport Sciences, France, offers a genuine platform dedicated to innovation in sport and movement. TechnoSport enables the study of performance in its broadest sense, from top-level sport to pathological movement.
The University Aix-Marseille, TechnoSport Faculty of Sport Sciences, France, offers a genuine platform dedicated to innovation in sport and movement. TechnoSport enables the study of performance in its broadest sense, from top-level sport to pathological movement.
The institution’s vision is built upon expertise in the interdisciplinary scientific study of the human-machine interface, innovation thanks to TechnoSport’s facilities, with in vivo study of performance, and a desire to streamline R&D’s relationship with industry and all those involved in sport
Objectives
- Develop an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sports performance and movement:
- Multiple disciplines investigating the same scientific issue
- Multiple disciplines working together on joint projects
- Interdisciplinary projects enabling work to be undertaken at the boundaries of our respective fields
- Disciplines represented:
- Physiology
- Neurosciences
- Psychology
- Biomechanics
- Robotics
- Sociology
Laboratories
TechnoSport has ties with two research laboratories:
The Institute of the Sciences of Movement (ISM) Etienne-Jules Marey is a mixed research unit linking Aix-Marseille University
The French National Centre for Scientific Research through the Institute of Bioligical Science (INSB), the Institute for incorporating primary and secondary Institutes.