Bachelor's degree in Food Innovation and Security Academic year 2023-2024This is a bachelor's degree aimed at training professionals for the food industry, focusing in particular on disciplines relating to innovation and food safety.
The agricultural sector is the largest industrial sector in Catalonia, and, therefore, plays a key role in the Catalan economy and in the future of our local industry. This is a degree designed to provide professionals with competencies that enable them to develop their activity in the food section in a broad sense —”from farm to fork”, both in the food industry and in publicly managed and controlled bodies, as well as in the various strata dedicated to teaching, research, development and innovation, by attending to consumer demand, which is a priority included in the 7th EU Framework Programme. The bachelor's degree has a training profile distinct from other studies in the field of food science and technology, and focuses on two aspects: Food safety, including the concepts concerning health (safety) and the concepts involving the right of citizens to healthy and sufficient food (security). Innovation in products and technology processes, in the production, processing and preservation of foodstuffs in general, including all ingredients, raw materials and additives, as well as the different ways to prepare, design and develop new food products aimed at different consumer segments or which can offer new flavours and textures.
Access requirements Upper secondary school education Access: university entrance examinations (PAU), general stage. Admission: weighting of subjects examined in university entrance exam (PAU) linked to the branch of knowledge of Engineering and Architecture. Higher level training cycles (CFGS). Access: all CFGS. Admission: weighting of subjects examined in university entrance exam (PAU) linked to the branch of knowledge of Engineering and Architecture. Over 25 years old Preferential option in successful entrance exam: Engineering and Architecture. Over 40 years old Assessment of professional experience relating to the bachelor's degree that the applicant wishes to be admitted to and sufficient interview outcome. Over 45 years old Entrance exam passed and favourable interview outcome. Others Special types of access recognised under current regulations. Another information on access Pre-enrolment code: 81058 Weightings Weighting parameters of the subjects in the specific phase of the PAU Validated credit transfer from higher level training cycles Validated subjects and credit transfers from higher level vocational training cycles
Manager or technician in food industries: R&D&I departments. Developing new products. Improvement of production systems, new processing technologies. New forms and presentations. Quality assurance departments. Development, management and application of security systems (APPCC, traceability). Application and management of quality assurance systems (ISO, BRC, IFS, SFQ). Physical-chemical and microbiological analysis of foods. Technician in food safety institutions: Catalan Food Safety Agency (ACSA). Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition (AECOSAN). European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Health departments and laboratories. Food innovation and safety researcher (should be after attaining a master's degree) such as in: Food biotechnology. Functional and healthy foods. Emergent conservation and transformation technologies. Creation of new ingredients and foods for various population sectors. Improvement in safety for all types of food. In national or foreign institutions such as: Universities. Public research centres (IRTA, CSIC). Private research centres (LEITAT, GAIKER). Teaching in subjects relating to food, for secondary, university and ongoing-education institutes.
For students wishing to continue their studies, the UdG offers official, professionally oriented and/or research master's degrees that give access to specialist training for working in the sector or education in a doctoral degree. More specifically, the University offers the Master in Food Biotechnology.
Through the following links you can access the calendars and timetables that correspond to this bachelor's degree. The academic calendar marks the beginning and end of classes, non-teaching days, holidays, exam periods, and so on. The administrative calendar marks the periods to make the different formalities administrative. Calendars and timetables
A high percentage of the degree takes the form of practicals; accordingly, classes take place in specialised laboratories. Polytechnic School’s laboratories, practical-class allotment and technology plant. Polytechnic School's computer-science classroom. Agrifood Campus of Girona. Visits to companies. Students can also take a minimum 300-hour work placement worth 15 credits.
In the final year of the course, the student prepares a bachelor's thesis, which can be a work of research, innovation or development. It can be carried out with the agri-food research groups of UdG or those of IRTA (Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology) or in a company. After the experimental work has been carried out, the results need to be presented to an examination committee. This work is worth 15 credits.
The Polytechnic School has agreements with foreign universities, permitting some subjects or the bachelor's thesis to be carried out in another university. For further information on mobility
1 Once the Catalan government has allocated you your place, you will receive an email from the UdG with your user code and a link for setting your password, as well as links to online enrolment applications and information on enrolling on your bachelor's degree studies. If you do not receive the message, fill in and send the user-account application form for newly admitted students for the academic year. 2 Use the link provided in the message to set your password. The user code and the password make up your digital identity as a UdG student and will allow you to access the university's online services. 3 Use your user code and password to access the online enrolment and check the enrolment period assigned to you. If the period has already started, the application will inform you that you can start your enrolment. 4 Click on the Grants and allowances tab. If you are entitled to any discounts that are not recognised, you will have the option to start the recognition procedure by pressing the corresponding "Request” button and attaching scans of the necessary documentation. Your school’s secretary's office will validate the documents so that, where appropriate, you can enjoy the corresponding discount on your enrolment or free enrolment. 5 Review the enrolment information on your bachelor's-degree studies and see the Basic Guide for online enrolment on first-year bachelor's-degree studies. 6 Formalise your online enrolment following the guide's instructions. If you have queries, contact the secretary’s office at your teaching institution. Remember you must enrol before the deadline provided for, otherwise, you will lose your place.
Subjects Check the subjects for which you can enrol in the section Subjects > Available subjects 2023-2024 of the website for your bachelor's degree studies. Fees Consult the enrolment fees and deductions available to you. Payment You can pay the enrolment fee in full, in two or three instalments or in monthly instalments. See the terms and conditions in the Enrolment Regulations. Grants If you have applied for the MEFP general scholarship and you meet the academic requirements established in the call for applications, you will be able to enrol without paying the public fees (subject to the subsequent award of the scholarship). Third language If your degree course requires a level of knowledge of a third language to obtain the qualification and you already have a recognised certificate of this level or higher, we recommend that you present it together with the rest of the documentation required for the first enrolment. Check the Regulations about a third language. Insurance If you are under 28 years old, you are obliged to take out compulsory school insurance for €1.12 per year. If you are over 28 years old, you will be covered by a compulsory accident insurance for 6.65 euros per course. Further information on the Insurance policies page. Staying Bear in mind that if you do not pass a minimum of 30 credits in the first two years, you will not be able to continue the same course at the UdG. Check the Rules for staying.
ID Spanish nationals do not need to produce their national ID (DNI) unless they opposed the University of Girona's collection of personal data during their online enrolment (see the guide for online enrolment). If you are a national of a EU member state, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland or Andorra, you will need to present a valid ID or passport from your country of origin. Otherwise you will preferably need to present a valid foreign-national identification care (TIE) or passport if do you not have a TIE. You will need to attach a scanned copy of the document through the corresponding online procedure and present the original in person at the academic secretary’s office. For online submissions you can use “Application to the administration” procedure in the online procedures section of the Virtual Secretary’s Office, preferably, or (with digital certificate) the UdG’s e-register. You have until the 21 November to submit the document. Admission documents If you have been admitted to the UdG through university pre-enrolment, from PAU, CFGS, admission exams for individuals over the age of 25, 40 or 45 or university degree obtained from the UdG, you will not need to produce any documents. If you have been admitted to the UdG through university pre-enrolment, from a university degree completed at another university, you will need to forward a copy of your degree online (e-degree or authenticated digital copy of the degree) or provisional degree certificate (with digital signature and CSV), or produce the original in person at the academic secretary's office. If you have been admitted to the UdG through academic record transfer or university pre-enrolment from a university degree started at another university, you will have to send proof, online, of payment, of your transfer fees, signed electronically and with SVC, or present the original in person at the secretary’s academic office. For online submissions of documents, you can use “Application to the administration” procedure in the online procedures section of the Virtual Secretary’s Office, preferably, or (with digital certificate) the UdG’s e-register. You have until the 21 November to submit the documents. Allowances and exemptions Before you register, review the self-enrolment’s "Grants and allowances" tab. If you are entitled to allowances that are recorded as accredited and are valid on the date of the start of the academic year (12 September), you will not need to produce any documents. If you are entitled to allowances that are not recorded as accredited, you can start the accreditation procedure by clicking on the corresponding "Request" button, and uploading the necessary documents there for applying the corresponding enrolment discount or payment exemption. You can also use the “Document Accreditation” procedure from the online procedures section of the Virtual Secretary’s Office, preferably (with digital certificate) the electronic register of the UdG, or to produce the documents in person at the academic secretary's office. If your documents are currently being processed or pending renewal, you will not be eligible for the enrolment-fee discount, but presentations of updated documents will be accepted up to 31 December for subsequently regularising your situation. Further information from the Allowances and Loans page. Bank details If you are not the holder of the bank account from which the registration fee will be paid by direct debit, you must submit the completed bank details notification/ modification form and proof of identification for the account holder. For online submissions of documents you will have to use the “Communicating or amending bank details” procedure in the online procedures section of the Virtual Secretary’s Office, preferably, or (with digital certificate) the UdG’s e-register. These documents will have to be produced within a period of 10 work days as from the date of enrolment. Enrolment application (only for face-to-face enrolment) If you not enrol online (online enrolment), you will have to fill in an enrolment-application document for the teaching centre. The centre itself will provide you with the document and which you will have submit duly filled in and signed on the day of enrolment. Photograph After you have enrolled, you will need to produce a personal photograph through the La meva UdG intranet (Staff > digital Identity), in accordance with the instructions provided on the same webpage. Note: accreditation by electronic means is not definitive, except in the case of original electronic documents or authentic electronic copies. The UdG reserves the right to request the corresponding physical documentation at a later date.
Online enrolment is the University of Girona's electronic enrolment system. It is done through the Internet and is available for the most of the studies. Access to the online enrolment Online-enrolment guide