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Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sports Ethic..
Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sports Ethics and Integrity
Start date: Sep 1, 2016,
End date: Aug 31, 2021
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The MAiSI is a two year Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sports Ethics and Integrity and is an innovative multidisciplinary programme that will be a catalyst for a new profession within sports administration. It brings together high level scholars in a consortium of Higher Education Institutions with a focus on vocationally orientated concerns. MAiSI will equip students for high-level careers in sports administration and governance, concentrating on the development of stronger ethical sports cultures, and developing tools for sports integrity and compliance. Students will receive training that enables them to identify ethical issues, engage in ethical thinking, and translate decisions into ethical actions – the core skills required to develop sports integrity. Semester 1 comprises advanced study of sports ethics, ethical theory, and sports policy, including anti doping, illegal gambling and match fixing at Swansea University. Semester 2 focuses on the experience of sport as a social practice in relation to athlete welfare, child protection and safegaurding, equality, integrity and fair play across able bodied and Paralympic sport delivered by staff from Charles University in Prague, and Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven. Students also gain research methods knowledge and competences, and will gain a sophisticated appreciation of Olympic and Paralympic philosophy, ethics and organisation hosted by the University of the Pelopponese, Sparta. A summer school is hosted by the International Olympic Academy, in Ancient Olympia, where students from both years mix to form a Sport Integrity network community, where common themes and interests are pursued. In Semester 3 the MAiSI focuses on organisational issues of sports ethics and integrity focusing on economic, legal and managerial aspects and instruments for the good governance of sport with faculty from Johannes Gutenberg Universitat, Mainz, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Student also commence their dissertation studies in this semester, and focus on it during Semester 4 where they are hosted by consortium partners in relation to their subject specialism and attend the summer school at the IOA.The MAiSI will support students in developing a sophisticated ethical mind-set and a range of transferable skills that are indispensable for addressing the ethical and integrity issues facing national and international sporting federations, national Olympic and Paralympic Committees The MAiSI graduates will benefit from extensive international collaboration and training opportunities, preparing them for decisively taking moral responsibility from the inside and the outside of the sports world. Horizontal/Sectorial PrioritiesThe MAiSI promotes the development of (i) transversal skills: the identification and critical engagement in ethical dialogue; the capacity to translate decisions into ethical actions and policies; and (ii) partnerships with sport stakeholders to enhance good governance