Introduction

Introduction

Observatory on Research on Rehabilitation

10/27/1999

Dear colleagues,

as usual when a newbie joins a community, I think that a short
presentation of what stays behind the signature Observatory on Research
on Rehabilitation could be useful.
My name is Luca Odetti, from Pisa, Italy. I am a research assistant at
the ARTS Lab of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (URL
<URL Redacted> ), and I am currently working on a large
project for the start up of a new applied reserch centre (the site
<URL Redacted> is currently under construction, and
only the italian version has been partially made available) on behalf of
INAIL, the Italian public institution for prevention and insurance of
accidents on the job.

In this framework, I am charged of the management of the P5 subproject
(see below, in the attached presentation of the Project), and especially
of the set up of a set of telematic services for Information Retrieval
and Delivery in the domain of Research on Rehabilitation, namely the
Observatory.

The monitoring of what happens in the international community is the
first step, but I believe that it will not mean simply a passive
lurking on the mailing lists, but it will be very useful to promote
interactions between our staff and the international R&D community in
the domains related to Rehabilitation, even in the form of mid- and
long-term partnerships.

Please find below a short introduction to the overall Project.
I hope that this will be the first step towards a fruitful
collaboration.

Best regards

Luca Odetti
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