SCA (Specialty Coffee Association) New Certificate Program

SCA offers different courses, including coffee skills, sustainability and coffee technician training, divided into three stages: basic, intermediate and professional.

Build your career in the coffee industry

SCA certificate programs are built on years of knowledge, research and practical experience, designed to help you build a successful career in the coffee industry. These programs focus not only on course quality, but also on how to prepare learners to achieve their goals and directly utilize their certificates or diplomas to find successful and rewarding careers. Recognized and sought by employers worldwide, the SCA certificate helps your CV stand out.

SCA Coffee Skills Program
SCA Coffee Skills Program

SCA CSP's Coffee Skills Program includes education in several coffee industry specializations: Introduction to Coffee, Barista Skills, Coffee Brewing, Raw Coffee, Sensory Skills, and Roasting. These learning modules are collectively known as the SCA Coffee Skills Program. Students can learn through three stages of knowledge and skills in each module: basic, intermediate and professional.

SCA Coffee Sustainability Program
SCA Coffee Sustainability Program

The Coffee Sustainability Plan emphasizes the importance of achieving sustainability across the specialty coffee industry value chain. The program explores the meaning of "sustainability" and its practical challenges through three learning stages, basic, intermediate and professional. Students will learn skills that include articulating broad sustainability challenges across the value chain, leading others to discuss and practice these issues, and ultimately identifying, developing, implementing, and evaluating sustainability efforts within their own organization.

SCA Coffee Technician Program
SCA Coffee Technicians Program

The Coffee Technician Program is an internationally recognized and standardized educational program designed for those who want to be better prepared to maintain or repair coffee equipment.