Innovation Marketplace 2022 Kicks off!

This year’s innovation marketplace, focusing on “Athlete-Surface Interaction in Football” has started, with around 20 students from our partner universities taking part. The group meet every week to discuss the project and receive guest lectures on specific topics.

The challenge

Working in groups, the students will have to develop a novel measurement method that can discriminate between surface types and within surface types (with different performance). It should serve as a proxy for player perception and correlate with their concept of ‘hardness’, ‘bounce’ etc. Concepts that are developed should be practical to implement as a testing protocol.

Each group will have the opportunity to visit Labosport’s facilities in France in November before presenting their final solutions in Austria next February. We’ll post more details as the project progresses!