Youth Sports Coaching

​Course Coordination

Luís Filipe Gonçalves Fernandes

​coord.ip.tdj@ipmaia.pt

Area of Education and Training

813 - Sports​

Description 

This Higher Technical Professional Course is a vocational training course taught as part of polytechnic higher education and lasts 4 semesters, corresponding to 120 ECTS.

The course is organised into general and scientific training, technical training and on-the-job training (internship), and each student is awarded with a Higher Technical Professional Diploma at level 5 of the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning.​

Relevant Areas

Qualification in the relevant area(s) for this course (Article 40-F of Decree-Law n.º 65/2018), must be demonstrated with the approval in the following subject, attested in the certificate of secondary education or legally equivalent qualification:

• Biology or​
  
• Physical education​

Professional profile

The Higher ​Technical Professional Course in Youth Sports Coaching aims to train professionals who are able to draw up, manage and supervise, with autonomy and using specialised knowledge, the planning and execution of coaching, learning, personal development and sporting development processes for young athletes in different sports.

​Professional opportunities

Sports coach for children and young people at training clubs and schools; coordinator for technical teams and for the coaching planning and competition process; manager of technical teams specialising in assessing performance ability in young sportspeople; sports department coordinator; manager for teams to promote physical activity and sport and recreational and training actions for a wide range of groups; coordinator and mana​​​ger of facilities connected to sport.​

Registry

Course registered at the General Directorate of Higher Education with the number  R/c 63/2016

​Publication in the Official Gazette

Study Program Evaluation