About Us

The PrEmT project (the first pilot project of the HEMOT® project) exists thanks to the support of University of Verona and Fondazione Cariverona.

Within the PrEmT project, we have an active collaboration with the Order of Geologists of Veneto Region.

The pilot study of the PrEmT project was tested in a primary school of Verona, with more than 130 children.

The HEMOT® project promotes training courses focused on competences that could be helpful to cope with different stressful situations.

The HEMOT® project aims at promoting resilience for children, adolescents, and adults in stressful situations, such as earthquakes.

The HEMOT® project has gained great visibility thanks to the interview to the coordinator, Dr. Daniela Raccanello, in The New York Times.

Within the PrEmT project, “prevention” is the keyword: we promote children’s knowledge about earthquakes and emotions.

Through the HEMOT® project, children understand the importance of choosing the coping strategy that better fits with the context.

In the HEMOT® project, we promote learning by having fun, with both digital and pen-and-paper games.

Children that participate to the training of the PrEmT project report in the website of their school that they learn while having fun.

Within the HEMOT® project we created a pamphlet about the new coronavirus and related emotions.

The public health emergency can have a great impact on children and adolescents’ emotions.

The pamphlet on the ongoing public health emergency presents useful emotion regulation strategies.

Considering the public health emergency, we can choose time by time the most useful strategy to feel better.

We can deal with the public health emergency also using some psychological advice.

The public health emergency can increase children’s fear, sadness and anger.

The pamphlet on the new coronavirus helps adults to regulate children’s fear, sadness and anger.

The pamphlet on the new coronavirus reports knowledge also included within the PrEmT project.

Considering the spread of the new coronavirus, it is important to give clear and correct information to children.

Considering the new coronavirus, it is key to help children continue their lives as normally as possible, but at the same time be aware of what is happening.

Thanks to the Regional School Office, the pamphlet arrived to every school of Veneto Region.

The team of HEMOT® developed a set of guidelines to help children and adolescents’ emotions.

The pamphlet gives practical advice to cope with coronavirus-related fear, sadness and anger.

A free pamphlet by University of Verona and Civil Protection of the Veneto Region offers tips on coping with coronavirus-related emotions.

Thanks to many friends, collegues and supporters, the pamphlet is available in many languages.

The pamphlet on the public health emergency is touring the world with the help of many people.

The difference between objective and subjective risk is a key variable during a pandemic.

The Italian Association of Psychology included our pamphlet among the resources to be consulted concerning psychological aspects related to COVID-19.

Within the HEMOT® project, we developed a pamphlet promoting coronavirus-related coping strategies for children and adolescents.

The pamphlet developed within the HEMOT® project inspired the video by Veronica Brusa, an Italian middle school teacher who used it to talk about emotions and coping strategies with her students.

We published a book describing the training for primary school children on earthquake-related emotion prevention implemented within the PrEmT project.

Within the HEMOT® project we published an ebook suggesting a training for children and adolescents on pandemic-related emotions and coping strategies.

Thanks to the Regional School Office, the webinar and the guidelines realized within the PrEmT project were disseminated to every school of the Veneto Region.

The projects of the Center of Research in Psychology HEMOT® were presented by Daniela Raccanello in a video for the initiative “La ricerca continua”.

The Center of Research in Psychology HEMOT® created a pamphlet to help adults managing children and adolescents’ emotions due to news about wars.

Thanks to the Regional School Office, the pamphlet on the news about wars and emotions arrived to every school of the Veneto Region.

Daniela Raccanello was interviewed about the use of face masks in 6-year-old children.

The Center of Research in Psychology HEMOT® developed the app PandHEMOT® to promote children and adolescents’ knowledge about pandemics, emotions, and emotion regulation strategies.

Thanks to the Regional School Office, the communication about the PandHEMOT® app arrived to every school of the Veneto Region.

The pamphlet aimed at helping adults to support children and adolescents victims of wars was disseminated also thanks to the Regional School Office of the Veneto Region.

The pamphlet developed by the Centre of Research in Psychology HEMOT® regarding news about wars inspired the video by Juan D. Machin Mastromatteo, professor and researcher from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Mexico.

The Center of Research in Psychology HEMOT® developed another pamphlet to help in supporting child and adolescent victims of the conflicts.

Daniela Raccanello and Giada Vicentini presented in a webinar online their new book “Psicologia dell’emergenza in età evolutiva. Dall’infanzia all’adolescenza” edited by Il Mulino.

Daniela Raccanello and Giada Vicentini participated in a podcast promoting by the WebRadio of the University of Foggia, presenting some initiatives of HEMOT®.

The pamphlet about floods has been disseminated through the social channels of the Civil Protection of the Veneto Region.

The pamphlet about floods has been disseminated also with the collaboration of the Order of Geologists of Veneto Region.

Daniela Raccanello presented the initiatives of the Center of Research in Psychology HEMOT® in a conference organized by the Italian Department of Civil Protection.

Daniela Raccanello, Giada Vicentini, and Roberto Burro wrote an editorial about the results of the first survey about the perceptions of ChatGPT that was disseminated among the students of the University of Verona.