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Academic Study Programme in Food Science and Nutrition

Food Science is an economically important and fast-developing branch with a strong interdisciplinary emphasis or vertical connection between producers of safe and high quality raw materials and food processing factories which, on the basis of contemporary achievements, principles and technologies, assure people a quality food supply. Nutrition is an applied science in relation to food and its impact on the human organism, its normal development and functions, and the appearance of diseases and metabolic disorders. Nutritionists are important mediators in the transfer of the achievements of nutritional science to the general public in order to maintain or improve their health, which also means implementing the guidelines of the National Nutritional Strategy. The main aim of the Academic Study Programme in Food Science and Nutrition is to qualify a professional who is capable of wide comprehension of food science and nutrition, with an emphasis on knowledge connected to food science, production, processing, quality and food marketing and nutrition as a natural continuation of food science for balanced, safe nutrition and the normal development and maintenance of human health. The programme is full-time and lasts for three years. After the completion of all study requirements, a student obtains a university academic degree in food science and nutrition. Graduates can be employed in large and small food processing plants, microbiological, physical, chemical and sensory laboratories for the food industry and in laboratories for food quality control, in consumer education, food quality and safety inspection services, in institutional nutrition in factories, health resorts with specific nutrition programmes, services connected to nutrition in public health institutions, centres for the promotion of healthy nutrition, in distributional centres, shops selling food and/or nutritional additives for preservation of health. Graduates can continue studies in second cycle masters’ study programmes.

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