5th Cohort Innovative Coaching in High-Performance Sports Starting in April 2026

This full Master's Program builds the bridges between the foundations for successful innovative coaching in modern high-performance sports. Coaching demands this multifaceted skill set, ranging from athlete management and scientific knowledge to effective communication and adaptability in an ever-evolving field.
HiPER
The HiPer Master's Program offers a way to improve your coaching skills with the help of professional coaches and fundamental knowledge. Students from all around the world will participate to share their approaches. United, we are working to develop qualified and educated coaches with the aim to spread knowledge worldwide, to guarantee high training standards for the best athletes, to get awareness on the topic of coaching and training and to set standards of what High Performance means.
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Innovative coaching in High Performance sports

Over 40 Years of International Coach Education

The Master’s program "Innovative Coaching in High Performance Sports" (HiPer) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is more than a modern, research-based academic program in elite sports – it is the continuation of a long and successful tradition.
For more than four decades, the renowned Foreign Coaches School in Mainz trained coaches from around the world. It was considered a flagship institution in international coach education, known for its unique combination of scientific rigor, practical relevance, and global exchange. Many of its alumni continue to shape high-performance sport in their home countries to this day.
With the HiPer Master’s program, we build on this legacy: We bring over 40 years of international coaching expertise into an innovative, part-time study format designed to meet the real-world challenges of elite sports – academically grounded, practically relevant, and internationally connected.
The HiPer Master is not just a future-oriented study program – it is the logical next step in a long-standing tradition of excellence in coach education at Mainz.

Curriculum & Study plan

  • Movement Science and Biomechanics

    1

  • Training and Teaching

    2

  • Sport Psychology and Methods

    3

  • Health, Nutrition, and Performance

    4

  • Sport Management and Leadership

    5

  • Mentorship

    6

  • Sport Specific Coaching

    7

  • Professional Master Thesis

    8
You want to do it in 6 or 8 semester. No problem, just contact us

Why to choose the HIPER?

  • 120 ECTS Full Master of Arts
  • Innovative and up to date
  • Best Lecturers
  • Work shadowing with a professional club/association trainer/coach
  • Part-time study program
  • Flexibility: 3-8 Semester
  • Besides work and family
  • 85% digital and asynchronous, 15% block seminar
  • Bachelor's Degree is not mandatory
  • International
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Diversity in modules and content
  • Work shadowing with a professional club/association trainer/coach
  • 8500€: inexpensive in comparison to other private Master programs

Innovation

Example of a virtuel environment in Meta Workrooms.
  • innovative teaching through the use of VR glasses
  • VR glasses sent to every student
  • interactive discussions, lectures and group work from home
  • in-depth and informative exchange where you can participate in a shared classroom from around the world
  • direct interaction with each other in virtual learning spaces



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Mission

Empowering „HiPer“ students to train high-performance athletes in sport on the qualitative best level all around the world.



Vision

To become the leading global network of training and coaching experts in sports.

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