Master in Gastronomic Sciences

This official title will open numerous doors in different areas of food, gastronomy and the Horeca sector:

• Teaching and research in food, gastronomy and culinary arts.
• Technical production departments of food companies.
• Research or technological centers in the food sector.
• Technical departments for the development of new food products.
• R+D+i departments in companies in the food and restaurant industry.
• Professional and/or innovation consultancies in the gastronomy and food sector.

We highlight

• You will learn the methodologies used in research in the gastronomic sector for the development of new products and services.
• You will carry out your Master's Thesis in restaurants, research centres, food industries and national and internationally renowned universities.
• You will attend gastronomic conferences and actively participate in entrepreneurship initiatives and the generation of new businesses.
• You will learn from the best expert professors from top-level universities and entities

Project-based learning for the Master in Gastronomic Sciences

The Master in Gastronomic Sciences has the students and their personal, social and professional development at the centre of its teaching methodology. It is an eminently practical model based on competencies that will help you solve the challenges and projects that will be presented to you throughout the master's degree. This learning methodology will help you assimilate the knowledge and skills that you will develop during the degree and will provide you with the work experience necessary to carry out your career as a professional in the gastronomic sciences.

From the very beginning, you will base your learning on practical projects. You will have to face challenges launched by renowned companies or professionals from the world of gastronomy and food, such as creating new food products or researching satiety.

This way, you will be able to apply the knowledge you have acquired in real environments and gain first-hand knowledge of your future profession.

In addition, you will have the opportunity to attend seminars, practical workshops, conferences and masterclasses given by experts from outside the university who work in leading companies.

Internships and Master's Thesis

Gain experience related to gastronomy and food while you study

Before completing your Master in Gastronomic Sciences, you will already be working as a professional in a leading company, restaurant, technology centre or R&D unit of a university or research centre. The close relationship that the Faculty of Gastronomic Sciences - Basque Culinary Center maintains with the gastronomy, hospitality and food industry sector gives students the option of obtaining practical and real knowledge about the world of work throughout their studies thanks to the Project-Based Learning model. And you will have the opportunity to do internships at the same time as you study.

In addition, in the second year you will complete the Master's Final Project for 5 months in a company or technology centre where you will have to develop a project, such as, for example, carrying out research on satiety or being able to develop innovative products such as black ginger.

Both the internship and the Master's Final Project can be carried out in companies and organisations related to gastronomy and food sciences, at a national or international level. An opportunity that will allow you to gain experience, learn about new realities and develop the skills and abilities required for a profile like yours.

ABP model

At Mondragon Unibertsitatea we believe that practice is the key to success in learning. That is why, in the Master in Gastronomic Sciences you will learn by solving real challenges thanks to the educational model based on practice and the challenges that different companies will propose to you during the course of the master.

Throughout the Master's degree, renowned companies and people in the gastronomy and food sector will present you with challenges that you will have to respond to with the knowledge and skills acquired in the Master's degree. To respond to these challenges and projects, you will have to research, analyse, experiment, debate and, above all, apply everything you have learned in the classroom.

In short, you will learn with a learning model that will allow you to complete the master's degree with professional experience.

By taking the Master in Gastronomic Sciences you will acquire advanced knowledge for the development of new products and services in the gastronomy and food sector. In this way, you will study different subjects and carry out projects in real environments that will allow you to have the necessary knowledge to specialize in this profession.

Subjects of each course

This master's degree is organized into the following five categories:

Cycle #01. Start The objective of cycle #01 is to understand the relationship between society and trends in social and educational innovation, understanding how they work, with keys for reflection. In addition to inspiration, the fundamental thing about the cycle is the orientation to work in a coherent line and know what the context and content are for the projects they are going to create.
At the end of this cycle, each participant will have defined their ideology as an agent of social and educational change in a process that has as its starting point personal and team reflection and that focuses on inspiration to choose research topics that are based on the desire to learn, not from the theoretical framework.
In the startup cycle a journey of inspiration will take place.

Cycle #02. Team: Community Creation This cycle establishes the tone, energy and pace of work that the participants will have to maintain as a work team, both during the face-to-face workshops and in the project work sessions, online work and the trips.
At the end of the cycle, the participants will be constituted as a fully functioning team, they will have defined the work areas of their project(s) and the team that will make up them.

Cycle #03. Development This cycle focuses on creation. The team will develop the field work of their projects, with longer stays and trips, in an introspective but not introverted creative process, since the work and dialogue with other agents will be constant. In this process, the participating people will go from “proto-team” to a team, with a clear shared purpose: project/research and well-defined roles in the project.
At the end of the cycle, the projects are validated and re-conceptualized throughout the Master's community and network. The cycle takes place in a year and a half, in addition, the participant chooses which subjects to delve into through the selection of 6 of the 13 proposed modules.

This cycle focuses on Project/Research.

Thematic content (LEGO Modules):

1. To learn to live together
2. Cultural capital at school
3. Change in the educational institution
4. Cross-disciplinary competences
5. Equipment Facilitation
6. Innovation in learning processes
7. Lifelong learning
8. People analytics: Metrics
9. Facilitation of learning in digital environments
10. Facilitation in hybrid environments
11. Learning and innovation ecosystems
12. Quantitative investigation
13. Qualitative research

Cycle #04. Iteration and Implementation The team has solid projects, validated by the network, there may be some changes and reinventions along the way, but the cycle focuses on consolidation.
Furthermore, at closing the first life cycle of both the team and the projects concludes, so the cycle focuses on reflecting and planning the continuity and/or future of the developed projects.

Cycle #05. Community After the presentation of projects it is time to "celebrate" what the team made up of the master's students has learned and the new skills and knowledge that each person has acquired.
It is also time to make an inventory of learning and make decisions about how to give continuity to the community generated in the Master through its network.

Workshops

Various workshops will be held throughout the cycles:

• WS#1: Tools for the trip (visual thinking, visual art).
• WS#2: Creation and teamwork methodologies: creative, mapping and project ideation methodologies, Design Thinking.
• WS#3: Tools for creating communities. Creation of research communities, trends in research (participatory and situated).
• WS#4: Rapid prototyping methodologies.
• WS#5: Preparation of the report (writing, evidence & measurement).
• WS#6: Preparing demoday (orality and presentation of various formats).

Face-to-face sessions

The in-person sessions of the master's degree will take place in Madrid and Bilbao.