The international project was presented at the Manifattura Tabacchi in Cagliari   Orienteering 4 Research Sardinia 2025.

The result of collaboration between Sardegna Ricerche and Ssd Pwt Italia , with the patronage of the Region, the Gutturu Mannu Regional Natural Park, Porto Conte Ricerche and Fiso Sardegna.

Born within the broader Sport and Wellness 4 Research program, Sardegna Ricerche aims to create a network of strategic partnerships between the worlds of sport and wellness to develop and implement innovative initiatives through which to translate scientific discoveries into effective and sustainable practices.

The Region has therefore selected orienteering or orienteering race to study the interaction between physical exercise and increased performance, between environment and psychophysical well-being, thanks to the synergy with one of the reference associations of the discipline, the Pwt Italia.

In this perspective, a collaboration will be started with CeRiSM - Research Center "Sport, Mountain and Health" of the University of Verona and Trento, directed by Federico Schena, which carries out basic and applied research in the field of physical activity and sports, with particular attention to responses to the natural environment and in extraordinary conditions, to gender specificities in healthy populations, to elderly subjects and to subjects with chronic-degenerative diseases and to the research relationships already active in Sardinia with the group directed by Prof. Lucia Cugusi of the University of Sassari.

At an international level, a partnership will be established with the Olympic Centre in Lillehammer (Norway), while further studies will be carried out on the fields of the 5 Days Madonna di Campiglio and O-Ringen events in Sweden, which feature the presence of 25,000 orienteers.

The results of this process will be illustrated in a conference (September 29) in the science and technology park of Sardinia.