The project proposal "Innovative ICT system to restore the sense of touch in patients with sensory deficit" (short abstract), in collaboration with IIT (Prof. Sandini, Dr. Brayda, https://www.iit.it/research/lines/robotics-brain-and-cognitive-sciences ) and IRCCS S. Martino-IST (Prof. Abbruzzese, Dott. Ventura, http://dinogmi.unige.it/node/51 ), has been selected and will be co-funded starting from 2018 by Bando Compagnia di San Paolo 2016.