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Coffee Skills Program↓

Eligibility

*The eligibility requirements for AST applicants vary for each of the certificate programs. In the Coffee Skills Program, our most popular offering, an eligible licensee has:

• career experience in the relevant topic.
• broad coffee knowledge.
• experience in training adults.
• recommendations from within the industry.
• Intermediate and Professional course certificates in the module in which they would like to teach.

CSP Professional certificates must be from courses held after January 1, 2017. Those holding an SCAA Heritage Pathway Taster Level 2 Certificate gained after January 1, 2016 are eligible for the Sensory Skills module license. Those holding an SCAA Heritage Pathway Roaster Level 2 Certificate gained after January 1, 2016 are eligible for the Roasting module license. If you are interested in becoming an AST based on a professional certificate earned by way of an SCAA Pathway certificate equivalency, please contact us to discuss next steps. Becoming an AST and delivering SCA certificate programs is not possible in all countries due to certain government restrictions.

If you have previously held an AST license, and it expired on or before December 31, 2017, your application will be considered new and the stated eligibility requirements listed above will apply. You will be asked to participate in the revised, online AST Course as part of the onboarding process.

If you have previously held an AST license that expired between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019 and did not conduct any courses between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019, the stated eligibility requirements listed above will apply, and you might be asked to participate in the revised, online AST Course as part of the onboarding process.

If you have any questions regarding your eligibility as a new or returning AST, please contact us via the contact form so that we may advise you regarding your situation and the next best steps.

Pricing

*The AST license fees for the CSP are €1500 EUR / $1800 USD plus €200 EUR / $240 per module license. ASTs can continue to add more modules within their current certificate program by completing the Professional course in that module and entering into an additional module license. The fee for additional module licenses is €200 EUR / $240 per license. Adding an additional certificate program to a license requires the AST to meet all of the eligibility requirements for that program. AST licenses and module licenses have three-year terms. Payment plans are not available. AST licenses are non-transferrable, even if an employer or third party pays the license fees for the applicant.