The Interdisciplinary Center for Human Performance (CIPER) is the Research Center of the Faculty of Human Kinetics of the University of Lisbon. In a strategic fusion for the evolution and development of national and international research, the Center for Research in Sport and Physical Activity (CIDAF), a successor unit of the Center for Biokinetic Studies (CEB), which had been created in 1996 as a multidisciplinary research unit, is now CIPER-UC, a CIPER center at the University of Coimbra