18 November 2024

Spring 2025 Food Industry Development Training Courses

Discover a range of upcoming training courses designed to enhance skills and knowledge in the food and beverage sector.

Introduction to New Product Development

For the Food and Beverage Sector

Whether you are new to food innovation/new product development or want to improve your pipeline of innovative food products, this training course will introduce you to a wide range of best practice methods and real life case studies. This course is designed for entrepreneurs, small food producers, food technologists, brand managers and development chefs working in the food and beverage industry. Discounts available by Taste4Success Skillnet for eligible businesses.

Management of New Product Development

For the Food and Beverage Sector

Innovation and the development of new products is essential to the success and profitability of Irish food businesses. While companies proactively develop and launch new products to meet the changing demands of consumers and ensure growth opportunities, many of these new products fail post launch. Research indicates that the root cause of these failures can be attributed to an ineffective new product development (NPD) process. This course will introduce best practice methods for the successful management of NPD processes within a food business. Discounts available by Taste4Success Skillnet for eligible businesses.

Introduction to Sensory Principles

For the Food and Beverage Sector

Whether you are new to sensory science or want to improve your knowledge, this training course will introduce you to a wide range of best practice methods and real-life case studies. Participants will gain an understanding of the principles of sensory science, the human senses and how they are used in sensory evaluation, sensory methodologies and best practices when conducting sensory studies. Participants also have the option of gaining a Foundation Level Sensory qualification from the Institute of Food Science & Technology, IFST (UK) by sitting a virtual exam. Discounts available by the Rural Food Skillnet for eligible businesses.

Microbiology for Non-Microbiologists

For the Food and Beverage sector

This course is designed to help those in the food industry with little formal microbiology training to gain a better understanding of the microorganisms associated with different foods, their characteristics and their implications for food safety and food spoilage. Participants will also gain an insight into the techniques used in the laboratory to test for microbes and the interpretation of laboratory test reports. Designed for those working in the food industry, including those involved in quality control, new product development and training, the course would also be particularly valuable to anyone with responsibility for improving food quality and safety systems, e.g. HACCP.

Discounts available by the Rural Food Skillnet for eligible businesses.

View the full 2024/2025 Food Industry Training Schedule here