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International projects source: SICRIS

Multi-Pillar Framework for children Anti-Obesity Behavior building on an EU biobank, Micro Moments and Mobile Recommendation Systems

Keywords
Biobank , Childhood Obesity , Inter-disciplinary Platform, real data, synthetic data, clinical pilots, school pilots
Organisations (2) , Researchers (6)
0552  University of Maribor
0796  University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
no. Code Name and surname Research area Role Period No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  27839  PhD Tanja Botić  Systems and cybernetics  Researcher  2024  84 
2.  60449  Ana Milošič  Psychology  Researcher  2025 
3.  50324  PhD Izidor Mlakar  Telecommunications  Head  2023 - 2025  194 
4.  57897  Ana Rehberger  Psychology  Researcher  2023 - 2025  12 
5.  18876  PhD Matej Rojc  Telecommunications  Researcher  2023 - 2025  262 
6.  37781  PhD Urška Smrke  Psychology  Researcher  2023 - 2025  131 
Abstract
During the last decades, overweight & obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions across EU. Prevalence in childhood is particularly alarming, resulting in psychological impacts & increased risks for NCDs. However, although obesity-related research has provided interesting results, several issues arise due to the lack of meta-reviews & the nature of data collected. To address this, Bio-Streams aims on supporting the optimal use (and re-use) of health data (e.g. biological, demographic, epigenetic, etc.) to generate metadata/knowledge and provide new evidences, methodologies & tools for: a) creating and deploying the Bio-Streams Biobank that will act as a scientific platform for research in obesity and better diagnostic and therapeutic approaches;b) understanding the transition from metabolically healthy to unhealthy, preventing under age obesity; c) designing better strategies to educate & empower young citizens for weight self-management; d) coordinating authorities & policy makers to develop cross-sectoral solutions for health promotion & under age obesity prevention. Specifically, Bio-Streams delivers a dedicated under age obesity biobank providing real-world health data (including biospecimens, anthropometrics, behavioural and cost data) from retrospective and prospective sources, while taking into account efficient data harmonisation and standardisation principles, transforming data valorisation towards under age obesity prevention and future research. Moreover, the Bio-Streams framework for data handling, provides robust and transparent methodologies for operational procedures (data infrastructures), analysis and reporting (via meta-reviews and AI-based Apps/components, evaluated via 12 multi-site pilots (7 clinical and 5 schools)), citizen awareness and lifestyle alteration, delivering obesity prevention guidelines, knowledge generation while fostering considerable opportunities for regional and national health authorities/policymakers.
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