The Master’s Degree MAiSI will equip students for high-level careers in sports administration and governance, with a focus on ethical sports, integrity and compliance. Students will receive training that enables them to identify ethical issues, engage in moral thinking, and translate decisions into moral actions – the three core skills required to develop sports integrity. 

The MAiSI programme starts in Leuven (Belgium) and the entire cohort will be based there during the first semester of the first year. Kindly refer to https://www.kuleuven.be/english/life-at-ku-leuven/ for information on life at KU Leuven (estimated costs of living).

Students will be based in Mainz or Barcelona, in alternating years (intake 2024: Mainz; intake 2025: Barcelona; etc…).

The MAiSI will support students in developing an ethical mind-set and transferable skills that are indispensable for addressing the value and integrity issues facing national and international sporting federations, national Olympic Committees, and Paralympic Committees with a focus on:

1st Year – MAiSI Master’s Degree

Semester 1
Students to be based at KU Leuven
KU LEUVEN, BELGIUM (KUL)

• Introduction to Sports Ethics and Integrity Discourses (5 ECTS)
• Integrity, Equality, Inclusion, Safe Sport (7 ECTS)
• Ethics, Anti-doping Policy and Sport Medicine (10 ECTS)
• Sports Law and Integrity Regulations (8 ECTS)

Semester 2
Students to be based at CUNI (Prague). Summer School at UoP (Olympia)
CHARLES UNIVERSITY, CZECH REPUBLIC (CUNI)

• Sports Values, Fair Play and Integrity (15 ECTS)
• Issues in Disabilities and Paralympic Sports (3 ECTS)

UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE, GREECE (UoP)

• Olympic Studies and Olympic Management (4 ECTS)
• Research Methods (8 ECTS)

2nd Year – MAiSI Master’s Degree

Semester 3   

Students to be based at UPF (Barcelona) or JGU (Mainz) depending on their year of entry to the programme.
UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, SPAIN (UPF)

• Governance, Law and Sport Integrity (12 ECTS)

JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ, GERMANY (JGU)

• Sport Management and Integrity (12 ECTS)

ALL PARTNERS

• Master’s Thesis  (6 ECTS)

Semester 4

Students to be based at any of the Consortium partners depending on their thesis specialism. Summer School at UoP (Olympia).
UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE, GREECE (UoP)

• Olympism and the Olympic Movement (6 ECTS)

ALL PARTNERS

• Master’s Thesis (24 ECTS)

Title of Awarding Degree

Master of Arts (MA) in Sports Ethics and Integrity