ECTS
120 credits
Duration
2 years
Training structure
STAPS Faculty
Language(s) of instruction
French
Presentation
The Master's degree in Rehabilitation through Adapted Physical Activities (RAPA) is designed to qualify future
managers in Adapted Physical Activity (APA) engineering in specialized professional sectors,
medical, medico-social or socio-educational, and in the structures of services to people and
health networks that work in the care of people with a disability,
a chronic disease, people with a disability or at risk with regard to health and
aging people
Rehabilitation through APA is a global care, inserted in a multi-disci-
plinary context and aiming at prevention, improvement or maintenance of the state of health, quality of life and
social participation of each individual, also allowing to limit direct and
indirect health costs.
At the end of their training, each graduate is able to intervene at all levels
of the design, supervision, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of projects and programs in APA for people with specific needs, from the youngest to the oldest
Objectives
On the basis of theoretical and practical contents, touching the different fields of knowledge
of the interface between disability and physical activity and/or sport, project management and engineering
of APA, the training aims at acquiring the following competences
- elaboration, structuring and development
- management and evaluation of projects and programs in APA-S,
- supervision, coordination and animation of personnel,
- collaboration within multidisciplinary teams,
- structuring of relationship networks (tutelles, partners...),
- promoting the structure through communication on the theme of ABS
- contributing to the realization of research protocols and internal and external evaluations
- scientific and technical monitoring.
Organization
Open in alternation
Only in Master 2
Admission
Necessary pre-requisites
Access to the first year of the Master's program is open to any student from the academy who holds a STAPS degree (APA course) or a diploma accepted as equivalent or an equivalence by Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE) granted by the ad hoc Commission. In all cases, proven professional experience in the ABS sector is required. A satisfactory knowledge of English and office automation (C2i) is also required.
And then
Further studies
At the end of any Master's degree, it is possible to continue one's studies in a Doctorate. Access to doctoral studies is however authorized according to the results obtained in the Master's degree, the agreement of a research director, a laboratory, a Doctoral school, and generally
under the condition of obtaining financing for the thesis. In the context of a Master's degree with a strong professional orientation, the CIFRE agreements (theses in companies, see the ANRT website) are particularly relevant.
Professional integration
Potential institutional sectors:
- hospital services and follow-up care and rehabilitation establishments (SSR: rehabilitation, post-cure...)
- medico-social, socio-educational and social establishments
- accommodation establishments for the elderly, whether dependent or not (EHPAD and EHPA)
- health networks (health cluster, Air+R network, obesity networks...))
- associations for the integration of disabled people and specialized sports federations (FFHandisport, FF Sport Adapté, FF EP Gymnastique Volontaire, FF EPMM Sport pour tous...)
- local authorities within the framework of integration and social aid policies, interested in APA-S
- companies dealing with disability and physical activities
- training establishments and companies, self-employment, associations, companies, intermediary structures between the specialized sectors and the social space or health networks