NICE Project (New Italian Chilean Excellence)

The NICE Project (New Italian Chilean Excellence) is a project funded by the Lombardy Region in 2010 with the aim of developing specific protocols for the evaluation of movement and brain activity associated with it in the execution of movements typical of daily life in children with disabilities, especially in children with cerebral palsy. These protocols, applied before and after rehabilitative treatment, will allow to verify objectively and quantitatively the effectiveness of rehabilitative treatments normally used in children with disabilities. The partners of this project are the Department of Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano, which is the Coordinator of the NICE project, and the Universidad de Chile. The Department of Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano has long had extensive experience in the quantitative evaluation of movement for clinical-rehabilitative application (Laboratory of Analysis of Posture and Movement “Luigi Prohibition”) and the evaluation of signals related to brain activity (Laboratory of Processing of signals, data and images biomedical). The Universidad de Chile, with its clinical partner Infatile Teleton Rebilitation Center in Santiago, have a lot of experience in the field of pediatric evaluation and treatment. In particular, the Teleton Rehabilitation Center is the largest child rehabilitation center in Chile with a catchment area of about 10,000 patients a year.