Signed an agreement in favor of teaching and research
8 February 2016 - An alliance betweenUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and achievement CONI, the Italian National Olympic Committee, also in view of the Olympics which will take place in Rio de Janeiro from 5 to 21 August next. The four-year agreement was signed on 8 February which initiates close collaboration between the two institutions in the welfare, teaching and scientific fields.
In particular, the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, with its over thirty Operational and specialist units, will make its professionals available to the athletes involved in the next Olympic Games and to CONI sportsmen and women. The same doctors will then be employed in the clinics of the Institute of Sports Medicine and Science of the Olympic Committee. But that's not all: the agreement stipulated between the two institutions also provides for the development of research programs and the possibility for CONI to finance scholarships for students of theUCBM. Lastly, the Olympic Committee will be able to participate in the University-Enterprise Committees of the University, as a bridge between production and training activities.
"I greet with satisfaction the signing of such an important and, certainly, profitable agreement between two international excellences - commented the President of Coni, Giovanni Malago - . With this agreement the mission of our Olympic Committee, which thinks of the present, implementing the services offered by our Institute and guaranteeing the best assistance to our athletes, and does not neglect the future, focusing decisively on scientific research and teaching, confirming our link with the university world".
"This framework agreement - comments the rector of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Andrea Onetti Muda – is part of the strategic alliances of our University and does so with an important partner of great social and ethical value. Being able to lead research in areas of activity specific to the Italian National Olympic Committee, such as food science, sports ethics, bio-materialsrepresents an opportunity and a challenge for us".
