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    • Restaurant and food processing

    You learn

    • about diet, food and nutrition
    • preparing and serving food
    • how to process raw materials, food and beverages
    • about food traditions
    • about health-promoting lifestyle and hygiene

    You should be

    • practically minded and good at working with your hands
    • creative and meticulous
    • service minded

    You can become

    • a cook, an a nutritional cook or a waiter
    • a baker or a confectioner
    • a sausage maker or a meat cutter
    • a butcher, a fresh goods retailer or a seafood retailer
    • a seafood production technician or a industrial food production technician
      See all vocations and competences

    Work places

    • the hotel or restaurant industry
    • hospitals and health institutions
    • the food production industry
    • bakeries, pastry shops or butcher–s shops
    • shops that sell fresh produce

    More education

    Vocational education and training lead to vocational competence (with or without a trade or journeyman’s certificate). After completing vocational education and training you can start working or take further education:

    • You can take further education at a tertiary vocational college. A is a short vocational further education meant for those who have taken vocational education and training.
    • You can take the master certificate examination if you have the trade or journeyman’s certificate in a trade that comes under the master craftsman’s programme, and have sufficient experience. The master course of studies qualifies you for a management or middle-management position within your trade area, and gives you the competence to start up your own company.
    • You can take a
      – after Vg2 or
      – after achieving vocational competence.
      You will then have the option to take higher education at a university college or university. Remember that some study programmes, such as for instance engineering, science and medical studies, require you to have certain science subjects.
    • You can also apply for admission to higher education after a preliminary course or by the Y-path, the vocational pathway to higher education. The Y-path is intended for those with relevant vocational experience. Preliminary courses and the Y-path are most commonly used for science and engineering studies.