Aix-Marseille, France

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.

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