The academic committee

Its role is to

  • Guarantee the specificity and quality of the course program
  • Define its objectives and contents
  • Ensure that the courses and the pedagogical organization meet the required standards and goals
  • Propose changes in the program when necessary
  • Ensure equal assessment policies in each of the partner universities
  • Supervisethe final selection of students enrolling in the Master course
  • Ensure that evaluations have been completed in all universities and assessing the academic year.
  • supervise student and professor mobilities
  • validate participation of new universities
  • validate recruitment of each new promotion with particular attention to specific graduation processes : Validation of Acquired Experience, candidates with unusual profiles…
  • Validate thesis topics

Members of the Academic Committee

  • Master coordinator : Christel Renaud-Gentié, PhD : lecturer and researcher in viticulture – Groupe ESA Angers.
  • Master pedagogical coordinator : Chantal Maury, PhD : lecturer and researcher in viticulture/œnology- Groupe ESA Angers.
  • Course academic supervisor at the university of Bologna (Italy) : Pr. Andrea Versari : research director in the food science department at the faculty of agriculture of Bologna university in Cesena.
  • Course academic supervisor at the catholic university of Piacenza (Italy): Pr. Luigi Bavaresco, associate professor in viticulture at the institute of viticulture and arboriculture at the catholic university of Piacenza.
  • Course academic supervisor at the polytechnical university of Valencia(Spain) : Pr. José Luis Aleixandre Benavent : researcher at the agrifoods institute for development, professor in foods science and technology, specialized in oenology at the agrifoods dept.
  • Course academic supervisor at the TAD university in Vila Réa (Portugal) : Pr. Nuno Magalhaes : associate professor in viticulture in the plant production and agronomic Engineering dept.
  • Course academic supervisor at Corvinus University, Budapest (hungary) :
    György Pasti, PhD  : professor in oenology and researcher at the faculty of food sciences.
  • Course academic supervisor at SAMV University in Bucarest (Romania) : Arina Antoce, PhD : Lecturer-researcher in oelology in the viticulture/oenology department.
  • Course academic supervisor at the Ecole d’Ingénieurs de Changins (Swizerland) :
    Roland RIESEN, PhD : lecturer – researcher and head of the earth sciences department.
  • Course academic supervisor at the university of Stellenbosch (South Africa) : Wessel Dutoit, PhD : lecturer and researcher in oenology in the viticulture-oenology department.
  • Course academic supervisor at Pontificia Universidad de Chile : Pr. Edmundo Bordeu : professor and researcher in oenology in the department of oenology.
  • Course academic supervisor at the university of Athens (Greece) : Pr. Elias Korkas.
  • Professional representatives : members of the Vintage Master Club are invited to attend meetings of the consortium.

Members of the Academic Committee at ESA

Members of the administrative team at Groupe ESA Angers

  • Masters administrative assistant : Mrs Céline Roux
  • Recruitment of international students : Mrs Catherine Pellier
  • Administrative monitoring and European partnerships supervisor : Mr Stéphane Brochier : head of international relations and Mrs Carine Billaud : European program supervisor.
  • European scholarships supervisor and  student mobility aids supervisor: Mrs Anne-Sophie Bonnafoux.
  • International students recruitment assistant : Mrs Anne Dominique Biche