The University of Parma is a State University; it is self-governing and has administrative, organisational, and accountancy autonomy. It holds 9 Departments, almost 100 Cycle Degree Courses, as well as many Postgraduate schools, Teacher Training courses, Master Programmes and PhD Research Projects. It welcomes 30000 students and about 2000 faculty and staff members.
The department of medicine and surgery, of the university of Parma has participated in several projects:
BD2Decide – Big Data and models for personalized Head and Neck Cancer Decision support Back-UP – Personalized Prognostic Models
Back-UP – Personalised Prognostic Models to Improve Well-being and Return to Work After Neck and Low Back Pain.
The relevant contribution to this project is the ability to generate training for professionals and development and development of training content closely related to the core of the project and which have the potential to improve mental and relational skills caregivers. the contribution of this university will concern both training contents related to the neuroscience in terms of risks and relations with the environment, that in the habit of clinical psychology and well-being and of positive psychology and of the mindfulness based stress management techniques.