Master STAPS - Adapted physical activity and health

This master's degree for professional purposes and research has the following objectives:

- to train the student in setting up and evaluating projects concerning the adaptation of physical and sporting activity to a particular public (motor, sensory, mental disabilities, mental disorders, chronic pathologies, cancer, the elderly) and/or d use all physical and/or sporting activities for the purposes of prevention, rehabilitation (or rehabilitation), post-rehabilitation, re-education, education and/or social integration with people with disabilities and/or aging.

- to prepare the student for a possible continuation of doctoral studies, in particular by allowing him to acquire scientific skills and specific methodologies.

- to promote the professional integration of the student as a manager, in the health and social sectors, and within associative, sports and educational organizations (health establishments, follow-up care and rehabilitation, retirement homes, establishments medico-educational, medico-professional and medico-social, health networks, PA associations, specialized sports federations, fitness centers, local authorities, disability companies), in connection with people with disabilities, aging, or for a population at risk.

Graduate students in the field of STAPS, Life and Health Sciences and Educational Sciences... It is also open to national education, health, physical activity, social, the judicial protection of youth, to dietitians with experience in the field of physical or sporting activities.

Mandatory prerequisites: having validated three years of study in higher education, preferably in STAPS, with at least 180 hours of internship related to the intervention and adaptation of physical activities intended for specific audiences.

Recommended prerequisites: have validated a STAPS course license/APAS mention

To access the 1st year of Master: First selection on file (diplomas obtained, internships, professional experience, motivations, etc.).

Second selection based on an interview: discussion with the recruitment committee.

The training takes place over 4 semesters. The STAPS Mention APAS master's degree is run by the UFR STAPS, Aix-Marseille University, co-accredited with the UFR STAPS, University of Toulon (La Garde) and the University of Avignon and Pays de Vaucluse. Real-life lessons take place in partner establishments. Some lessons are shared on the 3 sites, face-to-face or by videoconference. Terms common to the 3 sites. Some threshold scores are present.

A basic common base brings together disciplinary or transversal teaching units common to all students in the specialization.

The purpose of the M1 is to allow the student to build a global professional and university methodology from teaching organized around the process of developing a program.

In M2, the lessons are more rooted in professional contexts and allow you to build a unique professional and academic methodology in connection with your project.

The graduate has a triple competence, scientific, professional and sporting. It develops the following design knowledge and skills:

• He designs, plans, supervises, evaluates prevention, health education, care, rehabilitation, reintegration, therapeutic education and integration programs through adapted physical activity (APA), as well as projects to promote adapted physical activity in line with the structure's project.

• It implements and promotes a quality approach. He can participate in the elaboration and development of health and social cohesion policies and their challenges as an expert in APS.

• He manages, distributes and plans the resources needed to carry out a project or mission and/or the proper functioning of a service.

• He can hold an engineering position in structures for research, development, prevention, rehabilitation, rehabilitation, reintegration, re-education or audit-advice taking into account the effects of physical activity at health purposes. These activities concern both healthy people (primary prevention, etc.) and people with specific needs (ageing, pathologies, social exclusion, etc.).

• He generally works within multidisciplinary teams that he may be called upon to coordinate and, in some cases, to train in the field of adapted physical activity

The holder of the APAS Master must be able to:

• allow the practice of physical activities in complete safety and control the risks associated with them,
• know and master the deontological, ethical and legal frameworks according to the public and/or the establishments concerned
• design individualized or collective APA programs based on observation, analysis and knowing how to manage a contextualized and personalized health project or program relating to APA choices,
• master the application of the results, methods, programs, tools and concepts of the sciences of physical activity with a view to health, quality of life and/or social participation of a population with specific needs (chronic disease, transmissible or not , disability, aging, population at risk),
• analyze with appropriate tools the specific needs of a group of users in a particular context and identify health problems through in-depth knowledge of the target populations,
  master the interaction between the health benefits and risks of physical practice to offer a practice adapted to people,
• master access to technological innovations, emerging practices and social transformations and develops its professional network.

Compulsory internship in Master 1 (180h) and Master 2 (400h).

The internship policy is central to the training. It is accompanied by agreements and constitutes a springboard for professionalization. The internship, tutored throughout the year, and its dissertation are intended to provide proof of the non-drug therapeutic effects of physical activity in these health and medico-social contexts or to present the essential elements for the constitution and the success of an adapted physical activity project.

Master 1 internship: Realization, within any organization, of a study or project or research in a professional or university environment. Internship of one day per week throughout the academic year then blocked internship of one month during S2.

Master 2 internship: Conducting a project or study, with full responsibility, within any organization. . Internship of one day per week during S3 then blocked internship of 4 to 5 months in S4.

Possible continuation of studies in third cycle, in acquisition of professional diplomas of the medico-social, sanitary and federal sectors.

Possible continuation of studies in the third cycle, acquiring professional diplomas in the medical-social, health and welfare sectors.