Northern Coordination of the PFS Project - Creation of a Master's degree in Psychomotricity / Psychotrauma option

At present, the population of the DRC is exposed to numerous and repeated traumas that lead to mental and physical
after-effects. Under a previous partnership, UNIKIN set up a Certificate in Psychotraumatology to train professionals in the acute management
of such trauma. This new project is in response to a request from the UEA in Bukavu to create an additional master's degree that
could train professionals in the field, rooted in the community, to develop post-trauma rehabilitation initiatives that meet local
needs. As part of this request, the aim of our project is to help the UEA Bukavu to create a complementary master's degree in
psychomotricity aimed at holders of a master's degree in health or social sciences (Bac+5) involved in helping communities exposed to
acute and/or complex and chronic trauma. Psychomotricity is a tool that is particularly well-suited to the local context and to the
types of trauma encountered, which combine psychological suffering and multiple disabilities. 

The teaching will combine face-to-face practical modules and semi-face theoretical modules using digital tools that the students
will be trained to use. The training also includes the setting up of community-based student projects to introduce this type of
practice within the target populations. These projects will also be disseminated and supported by modern information and
communication technologies. On a scientific level, the project includes an academic scientific wing, with the supervision of 3 doctoral
students and research work on the specific traumatic nature
of this region (psychology), its treatment (psychomotricity) and its integration at local level, taking into account the
participation of women (health promotion, community health).