Scientific Research Center

For everyone who leads an active lifestyle and is engaged in sports and fitness, it is useful to understand how effective their training is. At the research center, using modern equipment, we can assess the physical condition and performance capacity of participants. Our specialists will develop a scientifically grounded training programme aimed at improving your health and athletic performance.

Objectives

• development and support of the institute’s research agenda in accordance with the main directions of state policy in scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation, as well as the development programme of Moscow City University (MCU) for 2026–2035.
• coordination of projects carried out within the framework of the state assignment of the Moscow Department of Education and Science, grant-funded projects, initiative projects of the Institute of Natural Sciences and Sports Technologies, and the activities of the student scientific society.
• promotion of digital solutions and high-tech scientific equipment in fundamental and applied research, as well as in the educational process of the institute’s core and additional programmes, including practical training and thesis work (final qualification and research projects).
• provision of scientific consulting services to various socio-demographic groups of Moscow’s population, and methodological support for training activities of sports teams, organised sports communities, and individual athletes.
• coordination of the Center’s lecture activities, including organising lectures and workshops aimed at popularising research outcomes.

Projects

• assessment of human body functional capabilities and adaptation reserve during physical training
  • research project: “Modernisation of educational programs in physical culture and sports in general education institutions of Moscow based on a system for monitoring students’ physical development.”
  • organisational project: “Development of new approaches to organising children’s physical activity in supplementary education in Moscow’s educational institutions based on monitoring physical and functional conditions” (within the state assignment of the Moscow Department of Education and Science).
  • ongoing initiative project: “Adaptation of the athlete’s body to intensive physical and psycho-emotional loads: features of integrative physiological mechanisms.”
  • commissioned by organisation “Children’s Sledge Hockey League” (as part of the Presidential grant “Hockey for the Visually Impaired”): “The impact of systematic adaptive hockey training on the physical and socio-psychological condition of participants.”
• urban environmental stress factors: biological characteristics of megacity residents from different social groups;
• development of a web service for assessing schoolchildren’s physical health;
• data-driven technologies for managing physical development potential in younger generations;
• individual typological characteristics of higher nervous activity as markers of readiness for specialised education in upper secondary school;
• development of scientific and methodological support for motor training using virtual reality systems for Moscow residents of different age groups with health limitations.

At the Research Center of the Institute of Natural Sciences and Sports Technologies (MCU), within the research team “Technologies for Enhancing the Adaptive Reserves of the Human Body to Achieve a New Level of Integrated Athlete Training”, led by Professor Elena Fedorova, studies are conducted on the neuroadaptation of athletes to loads of varying type, intensity, and volume.

Research also focuses on the bioelectrical activity of pyramidal neurons in the cerebral cortex to identify optimal technologies and methods for teaching and improving motor skills.

Within the framework of the state assignment of the Moscow Department of Education and Science for the 2025–2026 academic year, the following projects are being implemented:

• development of a model for maintaining students’ motivation toward the teaching profession within a system for managing the quality of educational outcomes;
• preparation of analytical materials on urbanization and its impact on active lifestyles and public health, taking into account regional characteristics;
• scientific and methodological support for implementing the hardware-software system “Rhythmogram” in the educational process of the subject “Physical Education.”

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