**2.5 Specific competences of a food and nutrition engineer, an example of updated curriculum implemented in Slovenia**

Education for food and nutrition professions in Slovenia comprises 3-year vocational training (most common are baker, confectioner, dairy farmer and butcher), 4-year technical secondary education (e.g. food and nutrition technician), 2-year post-secondary vocational education (e.g. food and nutrition engineer) and 3-year higher education studies (e.g. Bachelor's degree in food and nutrition engineering, manager in food and nutrition). There are also upgrades at Master's level (Master of Food and Nutrition, Master of Food Safety) and PhD level.

The occupation-specific competences of food and nutrition engineers/technologists do not differ drastically between European countries. An example of the training objectives and expected competences for the Food and Nutrition Engineer VET programme is given below (summarised from the Centre for Vocational Education, Slovenia [35]). The duration of the study programme is 2 years and it is assessed with 120 ECTS credits.

The main objectives of the training programme for the profession of food and nutrition engineer after the revision in 2023 are:



#### **Table 1.**

*Generic and occupation-specific competences of a food and nutrition engineer, summarised from [38].*

*Perspective Chapter: Key Issues of Curriculum Revision and Integration of Novelties... DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.112017*
