BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAM Artificial Intelligence in Health and Sport

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a transformative force in our society entering industries like robotic, financial service, agriculture, medicine, transportation, defense. In the context of human well-being, AI also entered the field of healthcare, lifestyle, and elite sport with the target of prevention, diagnosis, monitoring, and prescription. The jointed action of computer science and medicine science produced the application of AI in the field of healthcare with the goal to improve patients’ diagnosis and care, to explore new solutions for diseases, and to lead better discoveries in research. AI is revolutionizing the management of health, acting on the promotion of healthy lifestyle, for physical activity and healthy diet. Through AI, internet platforms, smartphone apps, and wearable technology can be used to monitor and track individual levels of physical activity, vital parameters, sleep patterns, daily food intake. AI acts to collect and elaborate real-time data and to provide personalized suggestions and recommendations for exercise and nutritional plans. AI has already had a hug impact on the sport industry. Sport organizations and sport clubs consistently use AI for games, teams, and athletes’ statistics, performance analysis, youth scouting, and monitoring of training load. Moreover, new line of research has been developed to explore the application of AI for data analytics and evidence-based practice.
The proposed BIP will disseminate current knowledge and future directions regarding the application of AI for the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle in general population, and for performance optimization and injury prevention in athletes.
The competences acquired in the BIP will be divided in 4 modules:
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges
- Artificial Intelligence in Health: Research and Applications
- Artificial Intelligence in Sport: Research and Applications

The proposed BIP pursues the EU GREEN educational strategies concerning the current challenges of the society and new frontiers of science and technology. In fact, AI rapidly became a new frontier of science capable to face the global changes and to tackle social challenges. The application of AI in health and sport can jointly interconnect the domains of life and society, as well-being, economy, behavior, psychology, public health, marketing, at both local and global level. The BIP will consist of lectures and workshops, in both virtual and in-presence modalities, with the participation of experts from educational institutions and industry to explore theoretical bases of AI and practical applications in sport and health sectors. The BIP will be built to guarantee a proficient exchange among students and scholars from different cultural contexts and expertise.