Sports Training
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(Português) Acreditação pela A3ES
Início / Treino Desportivo
Presentation
The Higher Professional Technical Course in Sports Training aims to train professionals capable of participating in the planning of training and competition activities, as well as organising and assessing training sessions. They should be proficient in coordinating competitor participation, handling logistics for both training and competitive events, engaging in the recruitment of sport participants and providing initial first aid.
- Qualifying Work Experience:
Equivalence to the training components set out in the framework of Sports Coach qualifications.
- General training component – Level I
- Specific training component – Level I (SWIMMING)
- Internship component – Level I SWIMMING
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Reasons to attend the course
- Exemption from national exams for entry into higher education and leading to a Higher Professional Technical Diploma.
- Guaranteed internship in a real work environment (1 semester).
- High-employability courses
- Opportunity to continue your studies to Bachelor’s degrees (with credit transfers/equivalencies.
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Access conditions
Who can apply:
- Candidates with a secondary education qualification or a legally equivalent qualification
- Holders of a Technological Specialisation Diploma or a Higher Professional Technical Diploma
- Holders of a higher education degree who wish to seek professional requalification
Candidates over the age of 23 who have passed the exams designed to assess their capacity for higher education attendance can also apply.
Special access contest
International applicants (applicants who do not hold Portuguese citizenship, are not citizens of a EU member state and are not family members of Portuguese or citizens of a EU member state, have not lived in Portugal continuously for more than two years as of 1 January of the application year, are not beneficiaries of equal rights and duties status granted under an international treaty as of 1 January of the application year and who are not applying for higher education admission through special admissions and special entry routes).
All foreign applicants must request the equivalence of their secondary education qualifications from their home country from a Portuguese secondary school. The equivalence of your certificate to Portuguese secondary education is a mandatory requirement for the application.
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Graduate profile
Graduates of the CTeSP in Sport Training should have in-depth, specialised expertise and theoretical knowledge in the following fields:
- Participation in the planning of training and competition activities.
- Facilitating training sessions.
- Assessing training sessions.
- Coordinating participants’ entries in competitions.
- Managing logistics in training and competition.
- Engaging in the recruitment of participants for the sport in question.
- Administering first aid.
Professional outcomes
The CTeSP in Sports Training is primarily designed to train the students to guide and organise fundamental sports training activities, associated with the training levels and competitive participation of young athletes.
Continuing Studies
You can apply for the Bachelor’s Degree Course in Sport and Leisure, with exemption from the entrance exam, when approved in the following curricular units of the CTeSP in Sports Training:
- Portuguese or Anatomophysiology or Exercise Physiology.
- Equivalence of 48 ECTS for the Bachelor’s Degree Course in Sport and Leisure.
Study Plan
| Curricular Unit | Area | Type | Contact hours | ECTS | PUC |
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| Comunicação e relações interpessoais | CPS | A | TP:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Anatomofisiologia | ENF | A | TP:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Aprendizagem e Desenvolvimento Motor | CDTL | A | TP:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Didática do Desporto I | EFP | A | TP:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Didática do Desporto II | EFP | A | TP:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Metodologia do Treino Desportivo I | CDTL | A | TP:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Metodologia do Treino Desportivo II | CDTL | A | TP:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Pedagogia do Desporto | EFP | A | TP:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Instrumentos e técnicas de recolha de dados no desporto | CDTL | A | TP:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Desportos de combate | CDTL | S1 | TP:30.00 | 3.00 | |
| Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação | EIM | S2 | TP:30.00 | 3.00 |
| Curricular Unit | Area | Type | Contact hours | ECTS | PUC |
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| Fisiologia do Exercício | CDTL | A | TP:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Metodologia do Treino Desportivo III | CDTL | A | TP:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Nutrição no Desporto | ENF | A | TP:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Traumatologia e Socorrismo | ENF | A | TP:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Estágio | CDTL | A | E:810.00 | 30.00 | |
| Métodos de Observação e Análise de Jogo | CDTL | S1 | TP:30.00 | 3.00 | |
| Psicologia do Desporto | CPS | S2 | TP:30.00 | 3.00 |
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Employability
(Português) Taxa de empregabilidade
http://infocursos.medu.pt/dges.asp?code=3165&codc=T197
Partnerships and internships
- Complex Gym
- Complex Gym
- Escola do Benfica de Viana do Castelo – Associação Desportiva de Chafé
- Estádio Municipal Manuela Machado – Olímpico Vianense Mário Cunha
- Pevidem Sport Club
- MOVE ON
- Torre Sport Clube
- Clube de Remo ADCJC
- Conselho de arbitragem da AFVR
- Clube Desportivo Cerveira
- Piscinas da rodovia- Sporting Clube Braga
- Escolas de Futebol Dragon Force Viana do Castelo
- Sporting Clube de Braga
- Escola Academia Sporting de Viana do Castelo
- Sport Clube Vianense
- Viana Remadores do Lima
- Associação Desportiva “Os Limianos”
- Move Better, LDA
- Escola de Futebol Benfica Braga
- Grupo Desportivo do Centro Paroquial de Santa Marta de Portuzelo
- Viana Remadores do Lima
- Gil Vicente Futebol Clube
- Sport Clube Melgacense
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Course distinctions
Course Prizes
- Qualifying Work Experience
IPDJ, Accredited Coach – General Level I (all sports).
Specific + Internship component in Swimming.
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(Português) Data de registo
30/10/2025
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