Founded in 1921, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (hereinafter UCSC) is the largest private university in Europe with 12 Faculties, 5 campuses across Italy (Milan, Rome, Piacenza, Cremona and Brescia), 80 specialized research labs, 2000 faculty members, and about 43.000 students of which nearly 1850 are international students. 

Research activity draws on 1295 tenured researchers, 39 departments, 1 institute 92 research centres, 6 university centres and 10 spin-offs and is aimed towards the study and understanding of crucial issues of life and society: new frontiers in economics and bioethics, changes in the field of law, family and cultural trends, mass media, changes in political systems, aims and goals of medicine, technological applications of mathematics and physics, and the most recent discoveries in environmental research.

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The Resilience Research Unit (hereinafter RiRes) is a research unit within the Department of Psychology of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, Italy. Over the past seven years the RiRes has designed and carried out projects of research, capacity building and interventions aimed at defining, promoting and sustaining resilience processes among children, families and communities exposed to adversity. Moreover, through the dissemination of its research, scientific publications and communications, the RiRes has carried out the University “Third Mission” and contributed to the development of a shared multinational knowledge on resilience-focused best practices to be applied with at risk population. 

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