ESSENTIAL OILS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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.