ECTS
120 credits
Duration
2 years
Training Structure
STAPS School
Language(s) of Instruction
French
Overview
The Master’s program in Rehabilitation through Adapted Physical Activities (RAPA) is designed to train future
professionals to become leaders in Adapted Physical Activity (APA) engineering within specialized professional sectors—
medical, medical-social, or socio-educational—as well as in personal care service organizations and
healthcare networks that provide care for individuals with disabilities,
chronic illnesses in people with disabilities or those at health risk, and
the elderly.
Rehabilitation through APA is a comprehensive care approach, integrated into a multidisciplinary context
and aimed at preventing, improving, or maintaining the health status, quality of life, and
social participation of each individual, while also helping to limit both direct and
indirect healthcare costs. Upon completion of the program, each graduate is capable of working at all levels
of the design, supervision, implementation, evaluation, and monitoring of APA projects and pro-
grams for populations with specific needs, from the youngest to the oldest.
Objectives
Based on theoretical and practical content covering various fields of knowledge
—including the intersection of disability and physical and/or sports activity, as well as project management and engineering
related to physical and sports activity—the program aims to equip students with the following skills:
• planning, structuring, and developing
• managing and evaluating projects and programs in physical and sports activity
• supervision, coordination, and leadership of staff,
• collaboration within multidisciplinary teams,
• building networks of relationships (supervisors, partners, etc.),
• promoting the organization through communication on the topic of APA
• contributing to the development of research protocols and internal and external evaluations
• scientific and technical monitoring.
Organization
Open on an alternating basis
Only in the second year of the Master's program
Admission
Mandatory Prerequisites
Admission to the first year of the Master’s program is open to any student in the academy who holds a bachelor’s degree in Sports Science (STAPS, APA track) or an equivalent degree, or who has been granted equivalence through the Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE) process by the ad hoc committee. In all cases, proven professional experience in the APA sector is required. A satisfactory knowledge of English and office software (C2i) is also required.
And then
Continuing Education
Upon completion of any master’s program, students may continue their studies toward a Ph.D. Admission to doctoral studies, however, is contingent upon the grades earned in the master’s program, the approval of a research advisor, a laboratory, and a doctoral school, and—generally
—is subject to securing funding for the dissertation. In the context of a Master’s program with a strong professional focus, CIFRE agreements (theses conducted in a corporate setting; see the ANRT website) are particularly relevant.
Employment Placement
Potential institutional sectors:
• hospital services and follow-up care and rehabilitation facilities (SSR: rehabilitation, post-treatment care, etc.)
• medical-social, socio-educational, and social care facilities
• residential facilities for older adults, whether dependent or not (EHPAD and EHPA)
• health networks (health hubs, Air+R network, obesity networks, etc.)
• associations promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities and specialized sports federations (FFHandisport, FF Sport Adapté, FF EP Gymnastique Volontaire, FF EPMM Sport pour tous, etc.)
• local governments involved in integration and social assistance policies, interested in APA-S
• companies focused on disability and physical activities
• training institutions and companies, sole proprietorships, associations, corporations, intermediary organizations between specialized sectors and the social sector, or health networks