Upcoming Courses
Aquafeed
23rd Practical Short Course Trends and Markets in Aquaculture Feed
Novotel Gent Centrum, Ghent, 27-28 May 2026
Wednesday – Thursday, May 27 – 28, 2026.
Oil & Fats
34th Smart Short Course on Fundamentals & New Techniques in Oilseed and Edible Oil
Novotel Gent Centrum, Ghent, Belgium
Monday–Tuesday, June 1–2, 2026.
Trusted by 4,600+ professionals from 100+ countries across 112 programs since 2004
Smart Short Courses delivers intensive technical training for food, oil processing and nutrition
professionals – practical programs designed and delivered by industry leaders, for people who
need answers, not theory.
Sharpen your expertise, solve real plant and formulation challenges, and connect with the
brightest minds in the industry. Your next program is closer than you think.
Smart Short Courses
Two Days.
Real Experts.
Skills You Use Monday Morning.
Areas of Expertise
Our courses are delivered across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Our expertise spans four core areas:
Oil & Lipids Processing
From palm and fish oil refining to functional lipids and industrial applications — practical expertise for every stage of the value chain. Topics include advanced oil processing, palm oil, fish oil, CBD oil processing, oil methods, emulsion technology and industrial oil uses.
Aquafeed & Aquaculture
From feed nutrition to farming systems to species-specific performance – practical expertise across the full aquafeed value chain. Topics include algae, fish and shrimp nutrition, micro-feed production, hatchery techniques, biofloc farming, fish oil and probiotic applications.
Nutrition & Health
Programs designed for professionals at the forefront of health-driven innovation. Topics include BioActives, functional beverages, protein extrusion, soyfoods, and probiotic applications for human and animal health.
Food Science & Manufacturing
Covering the science and engineering behind today’s food products. Topics include emulsion technology, food texture, snackfoods, breakfast cereals, and encapsulation and coating technologies.
For Professionals Who Mean Business
Our programs are designed for professionals who are hands-on in their field and serious about staying ahead — whether you work in R&D, process engineering, quality assurance, plant operations, business development or technical sales.
If you solve real problems for a living, there's a program built for you.
Areas of Expertise
Our courses are delivered across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Our expertise spans four core areas:
Oil & Lipids Processing
From palm and fish oil refining to functional lipids and industrial applications — practical expertise for every stage of the value chain. Topics include advanced oil processing, palm oil, fish oil, CBD oil processing, oil methods, emulsion technology and industrial oil uses.
Aquafeed & Aquaculture
From feed nutrition to farming systems to species-specific performance – practical expertise across the full aquafeed value chain. Topics include algae, fish and shrimp nutrition, micro-feed production, hatchery techniques, biofloc farming, fish oil and probiotic applications.
Food Science & Manufacturing
Covering the science and engineering behind today’s food products. Topics include emulsion technology, food texture, snackfoods, breakfast cereals, and encapsulation and coating technologies.
Nutrition & Health
Programs designed for professionals at the forefront of health-driven innovation. Topics include BioActives, functional beverages, protein extrusion, soyfoods, and probiotic applications for human and animal health.
For Professionals Who Mean Business
Our programs are designed for professionals who are hands-on in their field and serious about staying ahead — whether you work in R&D, process engineering, quality assurance, plant operations, business development or technical sales.
If you solve real problems for a living, there's a program built for you.
About Smart Short Courses
Ignace Debruyne, PhD, and Sefa Koseoglu, PhD saw a gap: highly skilled food and oil processing professionals who needed expert-level knowledge fast, but had no practical way to get it. Conferences were too broad. Academic courses were too slow. Consultants were too expensive.
Smart Short Courses was the answer.
Our simple belief is that the best learning happens when experienced professionals come together with the world’s leading experts — and get to work on real problems. Today our intensive programs span oil processing, nutrition, aquaculture, food science and beyond — each one designed around the challenges you actually face, taught by practitioners who have faced them too.
Whether you’re an R&D engineer tackling a formulation challenge, a plant manager optimising operations, or a business leader staying ahead of industry trends — our courses are built for one reason: to make the world’s best technical knowledge accessible to the people who need it most.
Dr Sefa Koseoglu, PhD
A chemical engineer with four decades of experience spanning oilseed processing, membrane technology and bioactive compounds. Former Associate Professor at Texas A&M University and chief technical advisor to the FAO, USDA and Inter-American Bank.
Ignace Debruyne, PhD,
Four decades at the forefront of oil processing, soy technology and functional nutrition. Former R&D leader at the Vandemoortele Group, independent expert for the European Commission, and one of the most recognised technical educators in the food industry.
Past Courses
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USA: +1 979 739 5682
Email: info@smartshortcourses.com
www.smartshortcourses.com
