Founded as the Royal College of Physical Education in 1925, the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences (TF) is the largest, most comprehensive and oldest centre for education and training in sport in Hungary.
Education
The Faculty offers six levels of sport education (from certificate level to Ph.D., EQF levels 3-8) in a wide range of fields, including P.E. teacher, adapted P.E. teacher, health teacher, health promoter, coaching, sport management, recreation, as well as human kinesiology. All summer Olympic sports and several others (47 in total) are listed in the educational programme.
Research
Research activities cover the entire human lifespan. Main areas include: ageing and well-being through exercise; muscular mechanisms and adaptation in physical exercise; health sciences, especially physical activity and health; health promotion; sport performance; neurodegenerative illnesses.
Facilities
The Faculty is located on an independent campus in Buda, with 16 sports facilities and two other estates (for water-based sports, track and field, tennis, and soccer), as well as eight high-tech research laboratories serving teaching, research, and the preparation of athletes.
Contributions to National Sports Affairs
The Faculty has a sports policy-forming role on a national level in close cooperation with all stakeholders of sports and physical activity. Additionally, Faculty experts are key contributors in the development of national schemes and educational documents on sports and physical activity, as during the readjustment of the Hungarian higher education system to conform with the Bologna Process.
Most key areas of the European dimensions of sport, identified in the EU sport documents (e.g. White Paper, Communication and the recently issued Resolution on a three-year EU Work Plan on Sport) are studied and constitute subjects of cooperation with major stakeholders of Hungarian and European partner organisations.
International Relations
The Faculty has stressed the importance of sending and receiving students on international exchange, gaining work experience and participating in various international projects. The Faculty has been active in European projects since 1993, when Hungarian institutions became eligible for European Commission funds through the Tempus programme.
Institutional and individual memberships in most European and other international sport and sport science organisations are evaluated as important sources of development, in which the Faculty and its staff members have dominant representation.
Besides active international cooperation with 39 partner institutions worldwide, the Faculty has been offering its major study programmes in English since 1993. Its coaching profile is strong and several bilateral projects are in operation in Asia. With the support of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic Solidarity, a 3-month non-degree International Intensive Coaching Course in 16 different Olympic sports has been organised in English since 1971.
Please note that the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences maintains an independent website, which contains additional information to that found on the central university website.
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