General overview

• Presentation

  This Master is a business-oriented training. His name “Sustainable Food Manufacturing Management” (SF2M) in English or “Master Agroalimentaire spécialisé en Management QHSE” in French reflects our will to transfer the modern and adequate skills to future managers and operational executives of the food and bioprocess industries in the industrialised as well as in the developing countries.
  This Master is jointly organized by ISA Group and FLST (Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Lille), two major Institutes of the Lille Catholic University. It is part of the “Master Professionnel en Sciences et Technologies, mention agroalimentaire” of ULCO (Université du Littoral et de la Côte d’Opale).
  It is a two year programme, fully taught in English and customized to train French students as well as international students. The Master is based on a pedagogy, combining theory and practice, with an 8-month real professional experience in the sector (learn by doing!). As the training is strongly business oriented, the students will have to apply their knowledge and skills at every time throughout industrial team projects, case studies and professional internships.
  This multidisciplinary approach of the programme, as well as up-to-date pedagogical and management tools, allows young graduates to penetrate the job market quickly and efficiently.
  The programme, focusing on the management in the food industry sectors, also provides an opportunity to make the most of the French know-how in the fields of Agriculture and Food Industry: France is, indeed, a world-renowned country for wine, cheese, food processing and transformation, quality-safety and traceability of agro-business products...
  On the one hand, France is also a major world actor in these industry segments: Europe’s N°1 in food production and world N° 2 exporter of food products. Moreover, the region of Lille is the hub for international leaders of both the food industry (Bonduelle, MacCain, Roquette, Lesaffre…) and mass distribution (Carrefour, Auchan). For many years now, ISA and the Lille Catholic University have developed strong relations with the business world and offer business-oriented training that suits the sector’s needs in both the French and international markets.
  On the other hand, globalization of the world market means globalization of recruitment in agro-food companies.
  Therefore, future graduates in this sector must learn how to manage international teams and run international businesses. Thus, companies are now looking for international technical and managerial competence.
  In this Master’s programme, students are provided with the opportunity to acquire an international dimension and real management proficiency and develop additional linguistic skills because French courses are included in the programme.

• Learning Objectives

  The Msc in “Sustainable Food Manufacturing Management” is fully designed to welcome international students from different countries. The teaching methods are based on active learning, which is particularly adapted to the reality of the professional life. Therefore, it allows the graduates to enter the job market quickly and efficiently.
  
  The active learning is notably based on practical works in labs, case studies, industrial projects, internship in companies… As with all ISA programmes (Bachelors, Masters, Engineering programmes…), all students will necessarily have a professional exposure.
  
  Project management and intercultural activities allow the students to develop their abilities to work in team and to reinforce transverse skills.
  
  - Industrial projects: these group projects have to be carried out in the first and second years of the MSc course. These practical cases are provided by the university. The students have to deal with specific issues for an industrial partner;
  - Internships: these individual professional experiences have to be carried out in the first year (2 to 3 months) and in the second year (6 to 8 months), either in a lab or a company, in France or abroad. Each student has to analyse technical and management working problems and to propose relevant improvement actions. Internships are a step by step process
  which aims at giving responsibilities to the students.
  
  During the industrial projects and internships, the students are supervised and guided both by a referent professor from the university and an industrial guide. The students will have to write a final report and to defend their work in the presence of the companies’ representatives.
  
  Main skills to be acquired
  There will be four axes of main skills to be acquired during the two years. It will be to be able:
  - to prevent and solve technical and scientific issues in the sectors of food industry and bioprocess,
  - to manage projects,
  - to manage international teams and companies structures, to organize them and to communicate among them,
  - to work as open-minded and critical professionals.

• Professional opportunities for graduates

  The young graduates will develop technical skills, as well as communication and management proficiencies. They will
  easily get operational positions in different departments, such as quality, production, environmental and industrial risks management... The Msc programme trains managers with project management, intercultural and linguistic skills
  who are able to:
  - consider local constraints for agricultural material and food processing,
  - reduce the impact of food productions on the environment,
  - implement the required quality standards.
  The Msc programme also includes human resources management, business and marketing courses… This
  multidisciplinary approach of the programme allows young graduates to reach other transverse positions such as:
  training and consultancy, project management and chief executive officer.
  
  The competences acquired by the students will allow them to
  work in several departments. They will work in the fields of:
  - Food quality and safety: implementing of HACCP, leading certification projects (ISO 22000, ISO 9001…), running audits,
  training workers to good hygienic practices, checking suppliers’
  books of specifications…
  - Industrial risks management: evaluating industrial risks, training workers to safety rules…
  - Environmental management: building and improving an
  environmental management system according to ISO14001,
  running environmental impacts audits, improving waste
  management, recycling food and agricultural by-products…
  - Production: scheduling large scale industrial productions,
  understanding the impact of food processes on the products,
  managing human resources, improving the equipments,
  managing a budget…
  - Global management: implementing and leading a change
  policy, planing new sustainable strategies in food companies…

• Conditions for graduation

  Master Professionnel Sciences, Technologies, Santé mention Nutrition, Sciences des aliments et Agroalimentaire spécialité Qualité des procédés agroalimentaires et Halieutique.
  Diplôme en partenariat avec la Faculté Libre de Sciences et Technologies (FLST). En convention avec l’Université du Littoral et de la Côte d’Opale (ULCO).
  Parcours Sustainable Food Manufacturing Management

Course outline

Eligibility - Registration

• Conditions for registration

  The selection will be based on the students’ academic performance, level of English and motivations:
  • Pre-requisite: Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Technology in the field of biology, biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, industrial microbiology…
  • The level of English must be certified by an official test (TOEIC 700, TOEFL 550, IELTS 6…);
  • The application form is to be asked to the ISA International programmes office;

• How to register

  Selection process
  The first step of the selection takes into account contents of application form, CV and cover letter. The selected applicants will then be interviewed as a second step. Level of written and spoken English as well as scientific level will be assessed during selection interviews through tests.

• Cost

  • Tuition fees: 4200€
  • The living expenses have been estimated up to 600e per month,
  including accommodation, food, books, transport…