It’s official! The Polytechnic of Cávado and Ave (IPCA) opens the degree course in Sports in the next academic year.
After seeing the approval of the Escola Superior de Desporto, Bem-Estar e Sistemas Biomedicales in 2021, the only public superior sports school in the district of Braga, IPCA launches its first degree course in this area.
In the context of polytechnic education, the aim is for teaching to be practical, and applied to concrete situations in society, differentiating itself through transversal training, as well as focusing on the connection between sport and biomedical technologies, with the aim of training professionals of excellence and with skills in applying the most current training techniques.
In the words of the President of IPCA, Maria José Fernandes: “With this degree we opened our 6th higher school and expanded our training offer to a new area in the district, that of sport. This course also has the particularity of differentiating itself from other similar degrees, as it combines sport with biomedical technologies, providing future professionals with much more comprehensive training.”
The course, which will take place in the city of Guimarães, distinguished as European City of Sport in 2013, aims to provide its students with basic skills in the areas of Exercise and Health, Sports Training, Physical Education and Planning Sports Activities. In this first year, the degree will operate on Rua de Vila Flor, in temporary facilities in the city center, in conjunction with the sports facilities of the Municipality of Guimarães.
For Domingos Bragança, Mayor of the City Council, the new IPCA School of Sports, Wellbeing and Biomedical Systems, starting in the next academic year of 2024/2025, is another important step in strengthening Guimarães’ status as an Educating City and Science, as a City where Sport is seen as fundamental to the well-being and health of all citizens.
The mayor also considers IPCA’s training offer to be adequate to the needs of a territory with strong sporting dynamics and passions, which will benefit from a new, demanding and contemporary university education. A new training that responds to the needs of competitive sport, associated with health, preventive, curative and active and happy longevity, and community, in informal sporting practice. For the Mayor, a degree that combines sport, health and biomedical technologies is essential for the knowledge required in the present and in the future.
The course also highlights access to a wide range of sports, using the most recent sports infrastructures and technologies, and also the encouragement to carry out scientific projects, with the introduction to research practices.
The Degree in Sports culminates in an internship, which serves as an introduction to professional practice, which is vitally important for a practical course such as this.
It is also worth mentioning the fact that brief advanced training courses are planned, aimed at the general population, thus allowing the profitability of the institution’s human and technological resources, as well as the sharing and transfer of knowledge to society, in a new area in the district .
