SCA Barista Skills Foundation

At Ciro Coffee Academy, education is at the heart of everything we do. We have always taken pride in being leaders and pioneers in the South African coffee industry, particularly regarding coffee training and skills upliftment, and we have enjoyed sharing our knowledge and experience with thousands of coffee enthusiasts and professionals to date.

For the first time in South Africa, the Ciro Coffee Academy now offers a range of Speciality Coffee Association (SCA) certified courses, to ensure that the training is of the highest quality and meets global coffee education standards.

The SCA hosts the most advanced and respected coffee training qualifications in the world and sets the industry benchmarks for education in the coffee industry. The courses on offer form part of the Coffee Diploma System of the SCA and will be issued to trainees once 100 credits have been achieved through the different modules.

Ciro’s newly Authorised SCA Trainers (ASTs) will have 10 modules on offer across our 9 training centres nationally that, within the Coffee Diploma System, will suit a variety of levels of coffee training.

By providing this world-class education platform, Ciro Coffee Academy believes that this will have a significant impact on the local coffee industry and will raise the standards in coffee training in South Africa.

Our ASTs will be equipped with some of the latest and most advanced coffee training material in the world and we will be able to offer this to you through the Ciro Coffee Academy.