Master's Degree in Sporting Performance Specialisation

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Presentation
Why study this Master's Degree?
Curriculum
Who is it aimed at?
A high-quality qualification
Learning outcomes
Methodology
Career Opportunities

Presentation

The University Master’s Degree in Sporting Performance Specialisation is an innovative degree in the Basque Country. Its aim is to provide students with advanced, multidisciplinary training oriented towards academic and professional specialisation, as well as initiation into research tasks in the field of sporting performance specialisation. Aimed at students on the Physical Activity and Sports Sciences (PASS) course and other university degrees who can also demonstrate the Higher Sports Technician qualification (Level 1 of the MECES), it guarantees a high level of theoretical and practical mastery of the contents, skills and abilities linked to sports training and coaching with young people, as well as talent detection and sporting performance specialisation. The objective is to offer high quality professional and scientific training in the field of sporting performance specialisation and, in a broader sense, in intensive training with young people. This Master’s Degree in Sporting Performance Specialisation, which is taught on a presential basis, consists of 60 credits, structured into five modules and 10 compulsory subjects (48 ECTS), and a sixth module consisting of the Master’s Thesis (12 ECTS). This master’s degree is organised into four main areas of training.

Qualification Obtained

Master's Degree in Sporting Performance Specialisation

Branch of Knowledge

Health Sciences

ECTS Credits

60

Duration

From October 2025 to June 2026

Schedule

Fridays from 4 pm to 9 pm
Saturdays from 9 am to 2 pm and from 4 pm to 9 pm
Sundays from 9 am to 2 pm
(provisional timetable)

Places

30

Price and Grants

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Why study this Master's Degree?

With an interdisciplinary approach and external placements at Baskonia/Alavés

The University Master’s Degree in Sporting Performance Specialisation offers interdisciplinary training for a professional who will be in permanent contact with other specialists (sports doctors, physiologists, biomechanists, nutritionists, trainers, physiotherapists, etc.), with in-depth knowledge of the subject in order to work together with all of them to improve the performance of young athletes. As an added value, this Master’s degree offers the possibility of doing extracurricular placements. EUNEIZ will help students complete their internships with middle childhood and adolescence sports teams at the Baskonia and Alavés sports clubs, the most important professional clubs in Vitoria-Gasteiz and “partners” of this university.

High performance, a source of economic development

High-performance sport is a source of economic development as well as a reflection of a country’s potential, which is usually reflected in the results of the various national teams. Indeed, in the field of entertainment sport, talent spotting and talent development has become a priority for most clubs around the world.

A growing field of employment

Sporting Performance Specialisation is an area of employment with a clear upward trend and a demand for specialised professionals. This high quality and highly specialised training must respond to a labour market that demands professionals who can have a successful impact on youth coaching and talent spotting, among other tasks.

Curriculum

Module 1. Psychological and psychosocial bases in the stages of sporting performance specialisation
Subject Semester Module type Credits

Psychological development in middle childhood and adolescence and its relation to sporting contexts

1

CT

3

Family and institutional environments in the promotion and development of sport practice and competition.

2

CT

3
Module 2. Biomedical sciences applied to sporting performance specialisation
Subject Semester Module type Credits

Psychological development in middle childhood and adolescence and its relation to sporting contexts

1

CT

3

Family and institutional environments in the promotion and development of sport practice and competition

1

CT

6
Module 3. Theory and practice of sports training in sporting performance specialisation
Subject Semester Subject type Credits

Detection and monitoring of sporting talent

1

CT

3

Planning, execution and control of training programmes

1

CT

9
Module 4. Motor control and learning in sporting performance specialisation
Subject Semester Subject type Credits

Learning sports technique, tactics and strategy

1

CT

6

Teaching-learning processes: design, development and control of learning

2

CT

6
Module 5. Research methodology applied to sporting performance specialisation
Subject Semester Subject type Credits

Quantitative, qualitative and mixed research designs

2

CT

3

Data analysis and processing

2

CT

6
Module 6. Master's Thesis
Subject Semester Subject type Credits

MT

2

MT

12

Who is it aimed at?

The admission profile for the University Master’s Degree in Sporting Performance Specialisation is that of a graduate in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences and, exceptionally, other university graduates who can also demonstrate Higher Sports Technician training, complying with the requirement of having a related degree and, simultaneously, Level 1 sports training, according to MECES.

A high-quality qualification

   Master’s Degree Verification Report

   Final verification report by Unibasq

   Register of Universities, Centres and Degrees (RUCT)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the degree, students will have achieved the following:

On the knowledge level

  • Critically interpret information from psychology professionals about the psychological and social effects of participation in intensive sport settings during middle childhood and adolescence.
  • Identify the fundamental role and characteristic aspects of the contexts of socialisation in middle childhood and adolescence, especially the role of families, peers and sports centres.
  • Understand in depth and in detail the fundamental aspects of the development and maturity of the different biological systems.
  • Master aspects related to the planning, programming and monitoring of sports training in the short term and, especially, in the medium and long term.
  • Master in detail and in depth the fundamental mechanisms and processes of sport learning and movement control depending on the stage of development and the type of sport.
  • Master the instruments and procedures for the development of training and its monitoring, taking into account the available scientific knowledge.
  • Master the methodology and procedures of scientific research, as well as the ethical limits and values in this field.

On the competencies level

  • Design and develop research in the field of sporting performance specialisation, contributing new knowledge in a specific area of scientific and social interest, following the methodology and procedures of scientific research and respecting ethical limits and values.

On the skills and abilities level

  • Designing and implementing the athlete's training process, through activities aimed at developing their personal maturity.
  • Intervene appropriately in the contexts of socialisation in middle childhood and adolescence, especially the role of families, peers and sports centres within the professional framework of a multidisciplinary team.
  • Apply knowledge of the effects of different types of physical training at different stages of development and maturity to the design of intensive sports training.
  • Master the principles and tools of sports analysis and the detection of sporting talent, integrating knowledge from different fields.
  • Appropriately use the instruments and procedures for the detection of sporting talent, depending on the corresponding specialities.
  • Develop optimal training programmes for the development of athletes.
  • Design training tasks taking into account the fundamental mechanisms and processes of sport learning and movement control depending on the stage of development and the type of sport.
  • Appropriately design different training scenarios according to the level, the age of maturity and the different contents that make up each sporting speciality.

Training activities, teaching methodologies and assessment systems

How do you learn?

In each module, depending on the learning outcomes, the methodologies likely to be used in the teaching-learning process are specified from among the following:

  • Lectures
  • Seminars
  • Debates
  • Presentations/Exhibitions
  • Field Trips/Outings
  • Case studies
  • Tasks
  • Problem solving, exercises
  • Practical work using ICTs
  • Personalised attention
  • Previous studies and literature review
  • Design and preparation of the Master's Thesis

The Master’s Degree in Sporting Performance Specialisation includes the possibility of completing external academic placements as an extracurricular activity. Thanks to the relationship between Baskonia-Alavés and the EUNEIZ University, students who access these extracurricular placements will have the opportunity to complete a minimum of 100 hours linked to the sports teams of these sports clubs, from middle childhood to adolescence. The main areas that can be developed in the placements are as follows:

  • Guidelines for learning and improving emotional self-control in training scenarios.
  • Learning emotional management in competition.
  • The comprehensive training and development of the athlete (dual degree). Debates.
  • Assessment and monitoring of development and maturity.
  • Detection, selection and monitoring of talent in different sports specialities.
  • Planning for development in team sports.
  • Organisation, implementation and monitoring of training.
  • Optimisation of technical and tactical training.
  • Analysis of sport technique and biomechanics.
  • Analysis of tactics and decision-making processes.
  • Scouting for the technical-tactical monitoring of athletes.

How is learning assessed?

Assessment in this master’s degree is a fundamental aspect that seeks to encourage reflection and the application of theoretical knowledge in professional life. Also, in each module, depending on the learning outcomes, the instruments to be used for the assessment process are specified from among the following:

  • Objective multiple-choice tests
  • Mixed tests (developmental, short answer and/or multiple-choice).
  • Practical tests
  • Oral tests
  • Tasks
  • Training and testing using ICTs
  • Master's Thesis (MT)
  • Presentation and defence of the MT

All these tasks will be mentored and closely monitored by the Master’s teaching staff. The assessment system is formative and based on a continuous dialogue to improve the approach developed, using a rubric to show evidence of learning. Furthermore, the guidelines for the Master’s Thesis of official Euneiz degrees will be followed in accordance with the established regulations.

The assessment of the MT includes the evaluation of the work, the assessment of the MT tutor and the quality of the presentation and defence before the panel made up of members of the teaching staff with academic and/or professional experience in the field of knowledge. The weightings of the items indicated are:

  • Quality of the finished report, 50 %.
  • Report of the MT tutor 10%.
  • Quality of the presentation and defence before the panel, 40%.

Career Opportunities

The main career opportunities for graduates of this Master’s degree are in the following areas:

  • Sports talent spotting professionals.
  • Physical trainers with young sports players and talents.
  • ¡Sport Science professionals specialised in sports talent.
  • ¡Assistant coaches oriented towards sporting performance specialisation.
  • ¡Coordinators of sporting performance specialisation programmes in clubs and federations.
  • ¡Performance managers for young and/or trainee athletes.
  • ¡Advisors to institutions, clubs and companies with technical and training projects with young people.

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