S.A.M.B.A.2- Health, Physical Activity and Wellbeing in Academia 2

The partnership, established during the first PRO-BEN project in 2023, which brings together around 130,000 students across two regions in the north-west of Italy, has designed activities aimed at promoting well-being and combating hardship, risky behaviour and new addictions.

Preliminary information

SCIENTIFIC MANAGER: Nicola Perullo

OTHER UNISG RESEARCHERS INVOLVED: Maddalena Borsato, Kiva Victoria Talty, Nahuel Buracco

PARTNERSHIPS: UniTo (Coordinator), PoliTo, State Conservatory of Music, Aosta Valley Music Institute, University of Gastronomic Sciences

DURATION OF THE PROJECT: 12 months (October 2025 – October 2026)

FUNDING INSTRUMENT: PROBEN 2024 MUR

MAIN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREA AT UNISG: Quality and perception

SdG:

Description

The aim of SAMBA2 is to support these activities over time and enhance their effectiveness and impact. The activities proposed in what is known as S.A.M.B.A. 2 are therefore based on the same premises as those indicated in the S.A.M.B.A.-1 project:

the spread of student distress, which is particularly evident in the early stages of academic life;
the peculiarity of the population in terms of life stage and specific learning experience, attributable to a particular historical moment that has accentuated risk factors and seen an increase in recent years in psychological and psychopathological distress, as well as alcohol and substance consumption and “new addictions”;
the need to adopt a perspective, consistent with the recommendations of the OMS and the main agencies that oversee issues of health and psychological and physical well-being, of primary prevention (in addition to the secondary prevention already mentioned in points a) and b) and tertiary prevention where behaviours and damage to health are evident) and health promotion in a population that, sometimes unknowingly, has extraordinary resources;
the opportunity represented by the academic context (universities and Afam), communities which, according to the salutogenic perspective of healthy universities, have the task of creating a “learning environment and organisational culture that promotes health, wellbeing and sustainability through the implementation, testing and transfer of innovative approaches”.

Unisg will organise Food and Wellbeing Workshops based on active and experiential learning. These activities are based on the One Health model and the culinary experience as a tool for inclusion and empowerment. Gastronomes and psychologists promote the development of conscious pleasure, food education, and social and environmental sustainability.

Website

https://samba.unito.it/

Publications
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Project news:

Bando di selezione per il conferimento di n. 1 contratto di collaborazione coordinata e continuativa per l’individuazione di una figura di tutor alla pari nell’ambito del progetto di ricerca S.A.M.B.A. 2 “Salute, Attività Motoria e Benessere in Accademia 2” CUP: G53C24001730001 (ITA)

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Proroga scadenza domande: 06/03/2026

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