University Of Salento

Master's Degree in SCIENCES AND TECHNIQUES OF PREVENTIVE AND ADAPTED PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

Degree course in italian: SCIENZE E TECNICHE DELLE ATTIVITA' MOTORIE PREVENTIVE E ADATTATE
Degree course: SCIENCES AND TECHNIQUES OF PREVENTIVE AND ADAPTED PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
Title: Master's Degree
MIUR Class: Scienze e tecniche delle attivita' motorie preventive e adattate - LM-67 R (DM270)
Length: 2 years
Credits: 120
Department: BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES
Language: ITALIAN
Location: Lecce
Academic year: 2026/2027
Admission procedure/Available places: Limited admission
Career opportunities: 3.4.2.4.0 - Istruttori di discipline sportive non agonistiche
3.4.2.5.1 - Organizzatori di eventi e di strutture sportive

Course description
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Course description

The Master's Degree in Preventive and Adapted Physical Activity Sciences and Techniques (LM-67) trains the kinesiologist for preventive and adapted physical activity, a specialist in the design, delivery and assessment of adapted physical-activity and sports programmes: for disease prevention and quality-of-life improvement; for post-rehabilitation motor recovery and the maintenance of physical fitness; for the promotion of active lifestyles and psycho-physical wellbeing across different ages and conditions, with gender specificity; and for the prevention and recovery of postural problems.
Skills are acquired through motor and sports, biomedical and psycho-pedagogical disciplines, with laboratories and a 20-CFU curricular traineeship. The programme covers two areas: motor-sports (adapted physical activity, sport for disability, techniques for inclusion) and biomedical (mechanisms of disabling conditions, rehabilitation and prevention through exercise, services and aids, adaptation of exercise by age and type of disability).
Graduates work in public and private facilities (schools, gyms, fitness and functional-recovery centres, sports clubs), in Italy and abroad, with interventions for different ages and special populations, and may take part in the competitions for teaching physical education. The qualification (120 CFU) confers the title of Master's graduate. The programme, based in the DiSTeBA department, has capped admission (65 places).

Admission to the programme is capped. Candidates must have obtained a degree in one of the following classes, or another qualification obtained abroad and recognised as suitable: Ministerial Decree 270 L-22; Ministerial Decree 509/99 Class 33; ISEF diploma.
In the absence of this requirement, admission is subject to holding a degree, a three-year or four-year university diploma, a qualification recognised as suitable under special legislation, or a foreign qualification recognised as suitable, together with at least 60 CFU in the basic and characterising areas of Class L-22, in the qualifying fields of physical and sports activity (M-EDF), physiology, biochemistry and anatomy. Any curricular gaps must be filled before enrolment.
In addition to the curricular requirements, admission involves passing an interview assessing the candidate's basic preparation in Sport and Exercise Sciences. The assessment covers the essential theoretical aspects of the preparatory subjects, based on knowledge of the systems and organs involved in physical activity, as well as the biochemical and physiological changes and adaptations induced by physical exercise and the content and methods of the motor and sports disciplines.