Objectives

The overall objective of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) FIPDes is to provide top-level and up-to-date education that qualifies the graduates to cope with the huge challenges in the sector of food innovation along with product design and packaging.

  • FIPDes qualifies you to contribute to the development of innovative, sustainable and healthy food products.
  • FIPDes puts you in a truly international environment with students from all over the world.
  • FIPDes involves you in exciting projects with international industrial and academic partners.
  • FIPDes gives you the skills, experience and networks to cope with the huge challenges in the sector of food innovation along with product design and packaging.

Food innovation comprises “functionalization” in order to endow products with specific health-enhancing properties, calling upon new processing techniques and packaging decisions.

Young people interested in the field of food product design need a tailored programme merging food science and technology, managerial and consumer science as well as health and sustainability issues. The EMJMD - FIPDes has been developed to match these needs.

The EMJMD in Food Innovation and Product Design is scheduled over two academic years.
FIPDes has been developed to train students who wish to contribute to the development of innovative, sustainable and healthy food products.

Successful FIPDes students will obtain a double or triple degree (according to their study track), i.e. National Master Degree certificates with a Joint Diploma Supplement from the highly renowned European Partner Universities and a FIPDes diploma which encapsulate the jointness of the programme by including the logo of each FIPDes institution as well as the signature of their representative.

FIPDes degrees awarded to the students at the end of the programme:

All students:
– Université Paris Saclay, operated by AgroParisTech, France: Master Nutrition et Science des Aliments, parcours FIPDes (Master in Nutrition and Food Sciences, pathway FIPDes)
– TU Dublin, Ireland: Master of Science in Culinary Innovation
– Joint Diploma in Food Innovation & Product Design
– Joint Diploma Supplement

Students chosen special mobility track:
– UNINA, Italy: Corso di laurea in Scienze e Tecnologie Alimentari (Master of Science in Food science and technology)
– Lund University, Sweden: Master of Science

Graduates will be able to find positions in and outside Europe, either in their country or in a national branch of an international food brand. Find more about FIPDes employability here.

The official language of the FIPDES course is English with ample opportunities to learn the local language and culture.

- Updated March 2023 -