Sports Mobility Grant

As part of its Schéma Territorial du Développement du Sport, voted in 2018, the
Collectivité de Saint-Martin wishes to support sports mobility by setting up a
Bourse à la Mobilité Sportive (BMS) scheme.
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The mission of the Bourse à la Mobilité Sportive (BMS) is to accompany pupils/students-
athletes and provide them with financial support so that they can achieve their goals in the
realization of their sporting careers.
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This scholarship is structured in 2 distinct levels to better respond to the diversity of
profiles of beneficiaries/candidates and to align the scheme with the reality of sporting levels
encountered:

BMAS - Bourse à la Mobilité pour l'Accession Sportive
- Objective: to support pupils or student-athletes at regional or
interregional level, in the process of building their career path, wishing to join a
accession structure (Pôle Espoirs, Section Sportive, high school...).
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BMES - Bourse à la Mobilité pour l'Excellence Sportive
- Objective: to support student-athletes developing at national and/or
international level, recognized on the ministerial list or identified by their federation as
high potential, in their integration of structures of excellence (Centre de
Formation, Pôle France, NCAA D1 university, INSEP...).

To be eligible for the Sports Mobility Grant, student-athletes must
meet the following conditions:
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- Be the holder of the French baccalaureate or a title justifying the exemption or
the equivalence of this grade for enrolment in the first year of higher education
or-be-a-student-athlete pursuing academic and sporting secondary studies;
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- Be a full-time or part-time student in an educational establishment
academic and sporting;
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- Be identified by a sports structure as a Espoir, Élite or Excellence athlete
in a sport and be engaged in a training and competition program
from or towards the top level;
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- Have been a resident for at least 5 years or be licensed in Saint Martin in a sports club
and be retained in a structure outside the territory.

The Bourse à la Mobilité Sportive (BMS) finances tuition fees, accommodation costs, transport costs and equipment costs.

The beneficiary can benefit from this aid for a maximum of 4 years, whether consecutively or not.

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The amount will be set by the deliberation of the Centre d'Excellence et d'Éducation par le Sport.

The awarding of mobility assistance for sporting excellence is based on a number of criteria:
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- Criterion 1: assistance granted to sportsmen and women according to tuition fees.
- Criterion 2: assistance granted to sportsmen and women according to transport costs linked to
the distance from their home.
- Criterion 3: Assistance for athletes away from home, based on accommodation costs
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- Criterion 4: Assistance for athletes who need to purchase equipment to practice their sport (purchase of equipment: small equipment, large equipment, various subscriptions).