The Master in Sport and Health for Children and Youth aims to provide a solid background for those who work, or intend to work, with the juvenile population, both aiming Health and Sports Training. Numerous studies conducted in countries like the U.S., Brazil, Canada, USSR and UK, show regular participation in sports activities of more than 70 million teenagers, i.e., more than 80% of young people engage in sport activities during time span. Thus, the creation of this cycle of studies allows the improvement regarding work with children and youth, taking into account their physical and psychological development, in a perspective of health or sports performance. Moreover, it allows the acquisition of new skills for technicians, teachers and coaches, and all those who somehow feel an affinity for this area.

This Master qualifies students to perform tasks in:

• All areas of child and youth development, making them able to design and develop projects of physical activities and sports;
• Deepen the specific technical, educational and scientific knowledge addressed in a 1st cycle degree, to perform the duties with children and youth;
• Apply knowledge with creativity, openness and flexibility, leading to create own opportunities;
• Work in team, leading to the personal skills awareness and development of planning, training and teaching skills;
• Increase research skills, gathering the tools inherent to autonomous operation;
• Assemble the knowledge and skills, making them appropriate to different ages and contexts (health or sport).