Research at CeprLab — from laboratory to clinical practice

SportsComp — Higher Education to Improve Competency in Sports Physiotherapy

A three-year Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership updating the international sports-physiotherapy competencies and turning them into e-learning courses at EQF level 7. CeprLab (University of Thessaly) is the Greek partner; the consortium is coordinated by Jamk University of Applied Sciences (Finland).

The published Delphi protocol — Tassignon et al., 2024, Int J Sports Phys Ther — describes the international, multidisciplinary methodology used to identify competencies through expert consensus; the project's work-package outputs build directly on it.

Key objectives

• Update the international sports-physiotherapy competency framework through a multi-country Delphi consensus
• Design and pilot e-learning courses aligned to European Qualification Framework (EQF) level 7
• Strengthen digital teaching competences of faculty, PhD candidates, and postgraduate students
• Disseminate updated competencies to national associations and IFSPT member organisations

Alphletix — AI system

A regionally funded research project building an artificial-intelligence system that predicts musculoskeletal injuries in young athletes — starting with football — from wearable sensors, laboratory tests and physiological indicators, using machine-learning and deep-learning models with an Open-Science commitment. A University of Thessaly collaboration between the Department of Physiotherapy and the Department of Informatics with Applications in Biomedicine, with the companies Physiopraxis and The Medical Project.