A Novel Public-Private Alliance to Generate Socioeconomic, Biomedical and Technological Solutions for an Inclusive Italian Ageing Society.

The ComPBioS group is involved in the work package 5, task 5 (5.5) of the Spoke 9, which is dedicated to the analysis, development, testing and validation of advanced technological solutions to promote a healthy ageing in the Italian population.

One welfare, one emotion: a look Inside the interaction. Bioengineering solution for the human-horse emotional transfer in neuro-psychological, and social perspectives.

The Human-Horse Interaction (HHI) has gained importance in social and medical contexts, particularly in supporting people with conditions like autism and psychiatric disorders. Most research has focused on the effects of human interaction on horses' behavior, neglecting the emotional dynamics between humans and horses. The OneFeeL project aims to address this gap by monitoring and modeling real-time emotional interactions between humans and horses during standardized interactions. The project focuses on physiological and behavioral responses in both species, using bioengineering, psychology, and medical approaches to study emotional contagion.

ESCAPOS - Environmental energy for Strategic CApillary urban POlicieS (funded by the European Union, Grant Agreement: GAP-101157553).

The Project is aimed at optimizing and testing a new approach both for climate adaptation planning and for monitoring the results of the implemented Municipality's policies and interventions. The integrated operational tool that will be optimised and tested in a pilot area of the Municipality of Florence (Firenze Nova) is the Escapos system, intended to be integrated in the Smart City Control Room of the City, currently under completion. Escapos allows analyzing, studying, balancing, and optimizing the energy flows of any urban system in the perspective of resilient climate mitigation and adaptation. Continuous ante/post-operam monitoring will therefore be carried out in the area (parameters: temperature, humidity, air quality, wind speed and direction, illuminance), performed also with wearable monitoring systems that will be optimised as a product of the project, aimed at dynamically populating the data database and verifying the effectiveness of a series of interventions with an impact on the overall situation of the area. The climate mitigation interventions that will be implemented are linked to what is already envisaged by the Florence Municipality's Green Plan, attracting a series of public investments to the area. In addition to the interventions carried out by the public body, an added value is the involvement in the project of private subjects (companies) based in the area, in order to carry out further environmental improvement interventions (green roofs, painting with polymers to reduce heat absorption, etc.) and to start a virtuous system of public/private collaboration for the management of the territory. A point of strength of the project will be the intense communication activity to the population and its direct involvement.