The PPMR pathway aims for immediate professional integration. Its specificity lies in offering training across three complementary skill areas: physical preparation, mental preparation, and re-athletisation. This reflects professional reality: most organisations cannot afford a specialist in each area and need highly skilled professionals capable of managing multiple aspects of athlete preparation.
Upon completion of the EOPS Master, graduates will have triple expertise – scientific, professional, and athletic – as outlined in the RNCP Master “Training and Optimisation of Sports Performance” RNCP fiche.
This triple competence enables graduates to design, implement, and oversee training programmes, develop physical and mental qualities, and manage re-athletisation programmes. Specifically, graduates will be able to:
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Master assessment tools for various types of participants (athletes, competitors, injured individuals returning to activity) to produce individual physical and/or mental evaluations;
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Develop programmes to enhance and maintain physical and mental qualities, as well as re-athletisation programmes;
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Plan and lead sessions, adapting programmes to participants and sporting activities;
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Master the technical, tactical, and strategic aspects of their activity.
M1 (First Year)
The first year of the EOPS Master focuses on acquiring scientific, methodological, and technical skills to analyse, evaluate, and develop physical and mental qualities. The year is organised into two semesters, each comprising eight teaching units (UEs). Each UE carries ECTS credits, with each semester totalling 30 ECTS.
Courses are delivered as lectures (CM), tutorials (TD), and practical work (TP).
Five UEs (15 ECTS, i.e., 25% of total credits) are shared across the first year of the Master: English, Communication, Statistics, Human Resource Management, and Knowledge of Activity Sectors and Professionalisation.
Internship: A professional placement is mandatory, requiring a minimum of 120 hours of on-site work throughout the academic year (6–10 months). In the second semester, students are expected to take on at least four hours per week in a responsible role.
M2 (Second Year)
Shared Units within the Mention:
Two UEs (6 ECTS) are common across the second-year Master: “Biological Approach to Fatigue and Overtraining Prevention” and “Psychological Approach to Fatigue and Overtraining Prevention.”
Shared Units with APA-S and MOS Masters (Lyon 1):
Three UEs (9 ECTS, 15% of total credits) are also shared: English, Applied Research Methodology, and Statistics.
In the second year, all pathway-specific UEs for the PPMR pathway are shared with the same UEs in the APA-S and MOS Masters, representing 45 ECTS (75% of total credits).
PPMR Pathway – M1/M2 Structure:
The second year builds on the scientific and methodological foundation from the first year, with additional specialisation in one of the three focus areas: physical preparation, mental preparation, or re-athletisation.
Any student holding a Master 1 degree or higher.
Upon completion of the EOPS Master, graduates will possess triple expertise – scientific, professional, and athletic – as outlined in the RNCP fiche:
https://www.francecompetences.fr/recherche/rncp/32169/.
The EOPS Master, PPMR track, is primarily aimed at immediate professional integration. It can also lead to a doctoral program. Research-related professions constitute a possible career path, particularly in roles associated with research and development within major companies, including manufacturers and suppliers of sports equipment and devices.
Details regarding application and enrolment procedures can be found directly on the UFR STAPS Lyon 1 website via https://ufr-staps.univ-lyon1.fr/formations/candidature-et-inscription.
To validate the second year of the EOPS Master’s programme:
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Acquisition of competence blocks: Each block must be validated with an overall average of at least 10/20.
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Compensation between modules within a block: The units within the same block can offset each other, provided that each unit achieves a minimum score of 8/20.
