Management of Sports Facilities and Entities

Management of Sports Facilities and Entities

Overview

This micro-credential offers comprehensive training in sports management, focused on analyzing, designing, and implementing effective strategies in sports facilities and organizations from an innovative, sustainable, and multidisciplinary perspective. Furthermore, it will develop skills for coordinating teams and highlight the role of the sports psychologist as a key agent in leadership, performance, and organizational cohesion.

Goals

  • To provide the knowledge, skills and tools necessary to analyze, design and apply effective management strategies in sports facilities and entities, integrating innovative and multidisciplinary approaches that enhance organizational development, sustainability and leadership in the sports field.
  • Apply tools and resources for the effective coordination and management of human teams in the sports field, promoting communication, collaborative work and the achievement of common goals.
  • To value the role of the sports psychologist in the organization and dynamics of sports entities, recognizing the importance of the interdisciplinary approach for the improvement of performance and organizational cohesion.

Access requirements

  • Being a national of the Spanish territory.
  • Be between 25 and 64 years of age at the start date of training.
  • Applicants must hold at least a high school diploma or equivalent professional certificate. A university degree is not required; however, applicants must hold one of the following qualifications, listed in order of preference:
    • Graduates in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences.
    • Professionals and technicians with a university degree (graduates or undergraduates), interested in the administration of sports facilities and entities.

Academic program

Contents

  • Module 1: Sports Facility Management. Strategic Management.
  • Module 2: Management of Sports Entities. Development of Projects and Promotion of Innovative and Creative Ideas in Sports Management.
  • Module 3: Management skills. Team coordination. The role of the Sports Psychologist in sports organizations.

Methodology and activities

  • Lectures/expository method: presentation or explanation by the teaching staff.
  • Seminars: completing exercises, solving problems or practical cases, others.
  • Individual work: individual preparation of assignments/projects/reports, portfolio, …
  • Active methodologies: cooperative learning, project-based learning, flipped classroom, service learning, game-based learning, case studies, problem solving… These are aimed at making learning a participatory process and are based on student agency.

Evaluation criteria

  • Attendance, participation or attitude in teaching activities, seminars, tutorials, etc.: monitoring student attendance and participation in teaching activities, carrying out activities during teaching sessions.
  • Written works, memoirs, internship reports, and projects: a document prepared on a topic or activity carried out, following the instructions established by the teaching staff.

General information

Credits: 3 ECTS

Duration: 75 hours

Teaching modality: On-line

Location: Virtual campus of the University of La Laguna

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Flexibility

Short courses available in various formats (in-person, online, or hybrid). Ideal for learning without interrupting your professional life.

Employability

Content created and delivered by professionals and experts in the field, designed for immediate application.

Certification

Endorsed by the University of La Laguna. You will receive an official ECTS certificate, valid in the European Higher Education Area.

Teaching staff

Francisco Javier Batista Espinosa

Noemí Martínez Martínez

Tuition

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Registration fee with or without discount

  • Microcredential price without discount: €217.50
  • Microcredential fee WITH discount: €65.25

The cost of tuition for this Microcredential will be subsidized by the “Plan for the development of university microcredentials”, investment 6 of component 21 of the Addendum to the “Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan”, financed by the European Union – Next Generation EU, 2025 financial year.

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