Our Scientific Research Projects
L’Université dans la Nature engages in transdisciplinary research on the impact of our contact with nature. We initiate research in different countries with the aim of contributing to the still emerging corpus of a discipline concerned with biology, microbiology, social sciences and neurosciences. We also collaborate in external studies by contributing our knowledge. L’Université dans la Nature has one of the largest databases in the world (more than 4300 studies and meta-analyses) containing the majority of scientific articles published since 1984 and is monitoring the daily release of new research studies in the field.
We have collaborated and continue to collaborate in the following domains:
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(2023) Benefits of digital nature on stress levels, nature connectedness and happiness for nursing homes residents : research project with Mélusine Martin, doctor in sociology (Sorbonne and James Cook University) and Tiago H. Falk, Tenured Professor at the Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique), Canada
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(2022) Assessing the Effects of Nature on Physiological States Using Wearable Technologies : research study led with the team of Stefanie Blain-Moraes (McGill University) and published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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“The Invisible Forest” (working title) : an innovative approach using virtual reality in nature as a tool to support adolescents’ reconnection to nature. Research and project developed in collaboration with Michel Le Van Quyen (INSERM, France) and Benigno Perez (CG LUX, Luxembourg)
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“Are we losing the experience of nature? Visual Nature Footprint Test at an Italian primary school in civic education experimental research” Orientamenti Pedagogici (2023). Research led in collaboration with Isabel de Maurissens, researcher at INDIRE (Instituto Nazionale di documentazione, innovazione e ricerca educativa), Italy.