Advanced Sommelier Postgraduate Degree Discover the prestigious Advanced Postgraduate Degree in Sommelier, a program offered in collaboration between Joviat and Universitat VIC - Universitat Catalunya Central, designed to cultivate world-class wine professionals.

This unique course will offer students the possibility to enter the world of Italian pasta production, learning specific techniques for both dry and fresh pasta as well as how to deal with production for direct sales and catering service. This is the perfect chance for all international students who wish to learn the techniques of pasta making and production both for fresh pasta laboratory and catering to have a real professionalizing experience and make a step forward to entrepreneurship in the industry.

Mastering the art of French pastry requires rigor and precision but also an ability to develop and renew an offer. Boutique, decorative, and event products will be addressed during our new program, to provide participants with new inspirations and techniques from high-level pastry chefs.

The "Master of Pizza", available exclusively in Florence (Tuscany), is a 70-hour intensive course over two weeks, where participants master dough fermentation, topping selection, and professional baking techniques. Every step is hands-on, ensuring a real-world learning experience.

Master the fundamentals of culinary arts and develop your palate and senses by exploring different techniques, ingredients, and world cuisines. This program is also offered as a pathway to the Bachelor of Arts.

Advanced Culinary Arts Postgraduate Degree to learn about global cuisine, modern and traditional cuisine, creativity, innovation, and new techniques, including the best Catalan food recipes,

The New Italian Culinary Program is a one-year course, organized in two educational units. It is the perfect course if you are looking for a real full immersion in Italian food and a complete study experience to become a professional chef of Italian Cuisine.

This Diploma will teach you all the techniques – traditional and modern – that have made French pastry arts celebrated across the world. It is a must for anyone passionate about French pastry and desserts, as well as those seeking to advance their careers or become entrepreneurs.

Mexican cuisine, a UNESCO cultural and intangible heritage of humanity, is one of the most varied and richest cuisines in the world, gathering culinary traditions from pre-Hispanic cultures to the present.

Whether you are a professional chef or a serious home gourmet, no other one-week course in the world will give you more knowledge and Italian regional cooking experience than the Foundation of Italian Cuisine. Several areas of the menu are prepared and presented including perfect base sauces, pasta, vegetarian and Mediterranean cuisine. Special emphasis is placed on baking, integrating specialty bread, hearth bread, pizza, focaccia, and desserts into the chef’s repertoire. Working alongside master chefs you will discover how to recreate the authentic vibrant flavors that have made Italy the food capital of the world. As always, this program is all-inclusive from the time of arrival at the airport until departure. Accommodations, ground transfers, all meals and cultural travel are all included.

The FSSP is a semester-long, interdisciplinary certificate program open to all students with an interest in food, sustainability and the environment. It is particularly well-suited to those hoping to cultivate a career in the food or environmental industries or seeking to continue their education at the graduate level. There are three tracks: Food Studies, Environmental Studies & Sustainability, and the dual-track. For each track, students take an Italian class, the 1-credit core course, and then choose three or four other FSSP courses. Each thematic course includes a series of co- and extra-curricular activities that are an integral part of the curriculum; they include guest lectures, site visits, field trips, culinary activities, research projects, and other hands-on experiences. These activities allow students to directly observe the concepts studied in the classroom and analyze issues surrounding food, sustainability, and the environment in an Italian and global context from varied perspectives.

Learn the classic techniques of combining ingredients into rich pastries. The main ingredients in French pâtisserie are flour, butter, eggs, and 'savoir-faire!' By learning their various combinations, properties, and applications, you will learn how to make various types of pâtisserie like pâte sablée, pâte feuilletée, and choux paste; and traditional gâteaux like Saint Honoré, black forest, and Paris-Brest. The demonstrations and practical sessions will lead you step-by-step through the basics of French pâtisserie. Basic Pastry is the first step, followed by intermediate and superior in completing your Diplôme de Pâtisserie.

Higher Diploma in Classic Western Cuisine graduates will be professionally ready to take up operative positions available in a wide range of catering establishments, such as restaurants, hotels, resorts, theme parks, and clubhouses. After accumulating professional experience, they will become highly capable candidates for supervisory and management positions.

The ‘pasticcere’ or pastry chef in the catering and hotel industries, combines in itself all the knowledge and technical skills of the traditional pastry chef, but at the same time, interprets and creates a pastry art with completely different objectives from the conventional laboratory: they contextualize their work within a team, working closely with the Executive Chef, to ensure superior quality in the catering service and within hospitality.

The Basics of French Cuisine has been created for people willing to train or reinvent themselves in Cooking, and for those who want to learn from the basics in 6 weeks.