MODULE 1: ESSENTIAL OILS

Understanding of main physiological, botanical bases of volatile formation in plants;

Ability to use the plant potential for enhancing accumulation of volatiles and essential oil yield in different crops;

Ability to practice optimal methods of plant cultivation in order to sustainable producing of essential oils;

Capacity to plan the production process and manage appropriate resources for effective plant farming;

Ability to rule the various agronomical and technical measures in the production system.

To master the various extraction processes of essential oils and their applicability;

Capacity to appraise a concrete example of an extraction process;

To master the post-extraction processes of essential oils;

to master the various physicochemical parameters allowing to control the quality of an essential oil;

to master the basic concepts of chromatography and their application to the quality control of essential oils;

master the basic concepts of European legislation on essential oils in different sectors such as food, cosmetics and agronomy;

 

MODULE 2: ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Ability to design appropriate strategies for the company;

Ability to analyse and diagnose the environment and the company itself, development and management of business plans and conducting studies of profitability of EOs investments;

Capacity to conduct a resource efficiency assessment;

Capacity for economic and administrative management.

Capacity for leadership of multidisciplinary human teams and teamwork and in international contexts. Capacity for organization and planning.

Adequate language skills: good reading comprehension skills with the topic of EOs.

 

MODULE 3 : FINAL WORK

During this module, the students will have to propose to the group of supervising professors a subject on which they will work in a personal and individual way. This work should allow them to take an overview of the existing literature on a subject and develop it in a personal way.