Aller au contenu principal

M1 FIPDes (Food Innovation and Product Design)

  • Places available
    25
  • Language(s) of instruction
    English
Présentation
Objectives

Choosing FIPDes, it’s a unique opportunity to:
- Be able to successfully integrate and apply knowledge from different disciplines and cultural systems.
- Undertake front-running applied projects in collaboration with industrial and academic partners.
- Deepen your technical skills while exploring your creative abilities.
- Empower your adaptability and entrepreneurship capabilities.
- Shape a unique profile that would take many years to build when working in a company.
- Get the European experience and networks to be ready for new incoming professional challenges at local and global scales.
- Develop highly marketable soft-skills such as team-management, leadership, and English communication.

Location
PALAISEAU
Course Prerequisites

- Background: BSc degree or equivalent degree of at least 180 ECTS or equivalent in food science and technology, biotechnology, process engineering, biochemistry, nutrition or food related fields with a number of prerequisites (e.g. chemistry, biotechnology, process technology/engineering, biochemistry, mathematics, statistics) representing at least three years of study from a foreign institute of higher education. Candidates should be interested in a truly international academic experience and aiming for an international career. - English language proficiency level ("B2 level" according to CEFR, advanced) demonstrated in one of the following ways: TOEFL at minimum level 575 Internet-based TOEFL at minimum level 90 IELTS at minimum level 6.5 Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency (FCE with B2 level, CAE or CPE) Students with English as their mother tongue (the copy of passport is needed to prove this) Students who have completed (or who are currently completing) a higher education degree with English as a medium of instruction (a certificate from the university is required to prove this) Stay of more than a year in an English-speaking country (a certificate from employer or other as applicable, or a copy of the passport page showing visa to enter and leave the English-speaking country, is needed to prove this) Exemptions can exceptionally be made for outstanding students with a lower English proficiency level

Skills
  • Have developed personal, social, leadership and intellectual skills in a multidisciplinarity context of food innovation and product design.

  • Have a deep knowledge and be able to apply the values of scholarship, inquiry, reflexion, integrity, openmindness, evidence-based thinking and collegiality.

  • Understand and be able to apply the principles and processes that underpin sustainable and innovative food development, including engineering, culinary, managerial and scientific aspects.

  • Be able to develop new knowledge or procedure and to integrate knowledge from different fields.

  • Get insight and awareness of the socio-economic environment and reflect on relationships between individuals, society and economy, providing a holistic overview of food innovation from local to global scale and of industrial practices throughout the whole food supply chains, from raw materials to consumers.

  • Make an informed choice of area of specialisation in the second FIPDes year.

Post-graduate profile

Students who have completed the first year of FIPDes programme are admitted to the second year of the programme (EMJMD in 2 years).

Career prospects

Opportunities following the FIPDes programme are diverse and varied:
- Jobs in SMEs
- Jobs in the R&D of major food groups
- Jobs in Higher Education
- Development of its own start-up (example of FoPo, created by FIPDes students: https://www.myfopo.com/)
- Continuation of studies in another Master
- PhD programmes

Collaboration(s)
Academic partner
  • Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) - Ireland
  • Federico II University (UNINA) - Italy
  • Lund University - Sweden
Laboratories

Génie et Microbiologie des Procédés Alimentaires
Ingénierie Procédés Aliments
MICrobiologie de l'ALImentation au Service de la Santé Humaine.

Programme

Le semestre 1 est constitué d'un tronc commun et de 3 ECTS à choix (choix entre deux UE). Il a lieu à AgroParisTech (France).

Subjects ECTS Lecture directed study practical class Lecture/directed study Lecture/practical class directed study/practical class distance-learning course Project Supervised studies
Comprehensive Food Science and Analysis 5 22.5 27 4.5
Food Process Engineering 3 21.5 22.5
French Language or Foreign Language for French Speaking Students 2 42
Introduction Module 1.5 12 23
Introduction to Formulation Engineering Applied to Food Products 1.5 9 2 5
Junior R&D Project 9 6 6 78
Statistics Applied to Food Science and Technology 2 18 12
Structuring Food: Science and Technology 3 6 30
Sustainable Development for Food Products 1.5 14 2.5 3
Transversal Innovation Project (I): Intercultural Intelligence, Project Management and Creativity 1.5 3 31
Subjects ECTS Lecture directed study practical class Lecture/directed study Lecture/practical class directed study/practical class distance-learning course Project Supervised studies
Analytical Engineering for the Agri-Food Industries and the Environment 3 12 4 21

Le semestre 2 est constitué d'un tronc commun et d'UE supplémentaires ne comptant pas pour l'obtention du S2 . Il a lieu à la Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) en Irlande.

Subjects ECTS Lecture directed study practical class Lecture/directed study Lecture/practical class directed study/practical class distance-learning course Project Supervised studies
Advanced Molecular Gastronomy 5 24
Food Law and the Regulatory Environment 5 24
Marketing Communication and Consumer Behaviour 5 24
New Food Business Creation 5 24
Transversal innovation project (II): Food prototype development and evaluation 10 4 44
Subjects ECTS Lecture directed study practical class Lecture/directed study Lecture/practical class directed study/practical class distance-learning course Project Supervised studies
Non compulsory Summer Internship 5
Summer School 3 15 15
Modalités de candidatures
Compulsory supporting documents
  • Motivation letter.

  • All transcripts of the years / semesters validated since the high school diploma at the date of application.

  • Curriculum Vitae.

Additional supporting documents
  • Other diplomas.

  • VAP file (obligatory for all persons requesting a valuation of the assets to enter the diploma).

  • Supporting documents :
    - Residence permit stating the country of residence of the first country
    - Or receipt of request stating the country of first asylum
    - Or document from the UNHCR granting refugee status
    - Or receipt of refugee status request delivered in France
    - Or residence permit stating the refugee status delivered in France
    - Or document stating subsidiary protection in France or abroad
    - Or document stating temporary protection in France or abroad.

Contact(s)
Course manager(s)
Administrative office
Secretary FIPDes - fipdes@agroparistech.fr
Admission
Registration fees

This master's programme offers additional services. This programme requires specific tuition fees in addition to the mandatory fees : https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/admission-help/tuition-fees

More information on FIPDes website: www.fipdes.eu

FIPDes fees: http://www.fipdes.eu/?Fees-5

FIPDes Application Procedure: http://www.fipdes.eu/?Application-procedure-159