INS Québec
INS Québec in a nutshell
Created in 1997, the Institut national du sport du Québec (INS Québec) is a private, not-for-profit organization that supports all athletes involved in Olympic or Paralympic sports and high performance coaches in Québec.
By focusing on science, innovation and technology, INS Québec represents “the ingenuity behind the performance” by offering cutting-edge solutions powered by experts and partners with the common goal of enabling athletes training in Québec to constantly improve in order to excel on the international stage. INS Québec and its network support more than 550 high-level athletes—mainly members of Canadian teams—and nearly 2,000 next-generation athletes and some 900 coaches supervising them. INS Québec provides scientific, medical and professional services. As a member of the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Sport Institute Network and the Réseau Francophone Olympique de Recherche en Médecine du Sport, INS Québec is active across Québec thanks to its network of 8 regional multi-sports training centres, 22 single-sport training centres and its Olympic Park Complex, which is home to 10 high-performance training groups.
INS Québec receives support from the Ministère de l’Éducation, Sport Canada, Own the Podium, the Canadian Olympic Committee, the Canadian Olympic Foundation, the Canadian Paralympic Committee and the Coaching Association of Canada, in addition to private partners, such as Sports Experts, CISCO, Bell, B2dix and Mondo.
Mission
The mission of INS Québec is to support the development of sporting excellence by implementing programs and services for high-performance and next-generation athletes who are training in Québec, as well as the specialists and organizations that support them.
Vision
INS Québec is recognized as the performance partner of choice for Canadian and Québec sports organizations thanks to its innovation and excellence in the diverse services it provides.
Values
To achieve its mission and vision, INS Québec relies on three key values of its organizational culture to guide its actions: Excellence – Collaboration – Ethics
Excellence : Excellence is what INS Québec is all about.
Collaboration : INS Québec works closely with people and organizations in multiple fields of action.
Ethics : The activities of INS Québec are conducted in accordance with ethical, equitable and safety principles.
Development directions
Development at INS Québec is based on 3 strategies:
- Providing science and sport medicine services comparable to the best practices in the world.
- Improved support for the next generation of high-performance athletes.
- Priority access to world class training facilities and treatment spaces.