Meister-Diplom für Konditoren und Bäcker

A 360º experience in the world of professional pastry and chocolate making

We train chefs capable of reinterpreting 21st century patisserie with an international vision

The Pastry Chef Diploma is one of the CIB's most sought-after programs. It is designed to help students achieve a high level of professional skill in professional pastry and chocolate making. This program gives you the confidence to enter this profession having acquired the knowledge and skills required in these work environments. What's more, you will have gained experience in teamwork, leadership and creative thinking for problem solving, as well as the foundations for future entrepreneurial ventures, if that is your goal.

The Culinary Institute of Barcelona's Pastry Chef Diploma is the first step towards your personal transformation, focusing on creativity and innovation and with one eye constantly on the future. You'll be surrounded by people from all over the world with the same goals as you: to transform their life.

Over the course of nearly one year, you will share your experience of learning and growth with people of diverse nationalities, cultures, beliefs and influences. You will enrich each other's lives and form friendships and professional relationships that will last a lifetime.

You will be taught by true masters of the trade, renowned professionals with years of experience all over the world. From the best chocolatier in Spain to a promise of the "bean to bar" movement, among others. Your teachers will be your mentors throughout the program, challenging you each day so you can become the best version of yourself.

This program is the most comprehensive and current intensive training course on the market. It is different from any other course , as it will not teach you to memorize and regurgitate recipes, rather it will give you the tools you need to learn using scientific formula and creativity to find better solutions and come up with innovative proposals in this exciting gastronomic field.

The Pastry Chef Diploma combines two academic terms and one term of work experience:

You will learn the basics on the Professional Pastry and Baking Course. You will specialize in more complex techniques with the Advanced Pastry and Chocolate postgraduate course. You will then continue your training with a three-month supervised internship in an international culinary establishment with which the CIB has an agreement. It will be perfectly suited to your skills and preferences and meet the best education standards.

You will be completely transformed with nine months of cultural immersion in the city of Barcelona. You will acquire the confidence you need to take on the role of pastry and chocolate chef and be eligible for endless job opportunities in bakeries, pastry shops, artisan chocolate businesses, chocolate ateliers, the dessert station of any restaurant, industrial-scale businesses, or even start your own venture.

The Culinary Institute of Barcelon a is designed so that you have a unique and unrepeatable experience based on multiculturalism, creativity and innovation.

The objective of the school is to teach people to build their own future.

An Institute Designed to Transform Cuisine

This is the idea with which three teachers in Barcelona started to design what is now the Culinary Institute of Barcelona, an educational project to train professionals who will lead the kitchens and restaurants of the 21st century.

Different Training For Professionals Who Do Not Want To Be The Same

We are aware that we live in a world characterized by a constant paradigm shift, a world that demands a new type of professional who can provide valuable solutions and in which technology, creativity and innovation are key. For this reason, we have adapted the teaching model used in Silicon Valley, the Mecca of digital technology, to international gastronomy. That makes us different.

Vision

We are born of a change and we keep changing without ceasing. Change is a synonym of evolution. And training also has to serve for that: to grow and evolve.

For years, society tends to be obsessive about overvaluing knowledge. It insists to the point of frustration in putting pressure on young people in their studies, without cultivating their values, skills and attitudes. And that is a big mistake.

In traditional training centers, students are not valued for what they really good at, but for what they’re expected to know. Skills such as imagination, creativity, eloquence and even intelligence are penalized. They aren’t motivated nor trained to be innovators, but they are trained from the past to the past, without thinking about the future.

At CIB we teach to improve, to question, to imagine, to search and to find new possibilities using our intellect, which is not exactly very rational but totally emotional.

We teach to do things more than to know things. We teach to love and to survive, and not to accept the established. Because we know that what’s established is ephemeral and often even incorrect.

We are obsessed with our teaching procedures so that our young people can overcome the scenarios of change, do them their own and know how to adapt to the new circumstances with absolute naturalness. We try to teach to set, pursue and achieve objectives, not be afraid of making mistakes. Because only those who are willing to make mistakes are able to do really wonderful things.

That's why we created CIB. To do it.

Training Model

We base our methodology on 6 axes that allow the formation of leaders capable of successfully facing the challenges of the 21st century.

Learning based on challenges

An education model that:

It exposes students to real problems, favors the development of their transformative leadership competencies and makes them more competitive in today's world.

It generates motivation and a sense of achievement.

It links the student with the environment so that tangible value is generated.

It offers challenging experiences that develop entrepreneurship and human sense.

It is an experiential, collaborative and knowledge integrator.

Flexibility

That's why: flexibility is a living concept, patent in each of our facilities. Teaching spaces, active and dynamic in which the student is the center. And so:

Our classrooms change. With chairs that are not just chairs, but a mobile personal workspace that adapts to the characteristics of each student and each class.

All our students have an intelligent translation PILOT headset, which allows them to speak and follow the classes in their native language. Without cables nor complications.

There is also time for the student and his classmates to work at their leisure.

Inspirational teachers

We know that, although it is reason that teachers, it is learned from emotion. That's why each of our teachers:

Live passionately the pedagogical experience, and it shows.

He is interested in the student, challenging, guiding and strengthening his development.

It stands out as an academic and leader in its discipline, it is innovative and takes advantage of technology.

He participates actively and formally in his professional, business, academic and social environment.

It has a close link with the students, it is a good example and it leaves a mark on them.

Memorable experience

Our students spend at least one year with us and during their training, they live:

A global, diverse and multicultural learning community.

Academic and professional practices on the Campus and outside of it.

Student development activities that provide a diversity of challenges and encourage the development of skills.

360º training

We are not satisfied with being providers of knowledge, all our students receive a 360º training.

• Knowledge: Technological, product and its manipulation.

• Abilities: To manage a business, other people and themselves.

• Attitudes: Leadership, social and professional.

• Possibilities: For the recognition of the environment and of themselves.

Because it is when these four circles converge when success occurs.

Accessibility and transparency

All communication from CIB, teachers and students, is accessible and available 24 hours a day throughout the year.

• Personal instant messaging, by groups and general.

• Archive of videos, audios and documents.

• Video and audio in real time.

• It's easy, it's Facebook Workplace.