The million Dirham ambition - The

International Centre for Culinary Arts

Dubai (ICCA)

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The International Centre for Culinary Arts Dubai (ICCA) has launched the first of its kind, a one million Dirham continuing Education award, which is an annual 100% scholarship programme for 30 young industry chefs .

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Sunjeh Raja wants to establish this institute as a centre of excellence providing the best culinary education, and thus, takes an integrated approach to administer the institute with a well defined and apparent objective.

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The ICCA Dubai, recently re-vealed plans to train and certify talented and deserving, but fi-nancially underprivileged, young chefs across the UAE hospitality sector.

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The scholarship initiative will be ex-ecuted in strategic partnership with the Emirates Culinary Guild, World Chefs (World Association of Chefs Societies) and City & Guilds London.

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The pro-gramme selection panel consists of Chef Andy Cuthbert, chairman ECG and Young Chefs development team for WACS, Chef Uwe Micheel, president of ECG, Chef Alan Pedge, vice president ECG Abu Dhabi and Sunjeh Raja, direc-tor and CEO, ICCA Dubai will all select candidates based on a set criterion.

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All candidates will be put through the intensive ICCA Dubai – Interna-tional Chef Training Programme, a City & Guilds London, accredited IVQ level 2 qualification, along with other industry skills over the course of a 52 week, one-day a week programme.

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Prominent chefs and industry experts will regularly conduct training sessions, imparting skills and knowledge aligned to industry needs.

The graduates of the programme will be eligible for WACS-certified profes-sional cook, under the World Chefs global certification scheme.

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Sunjeh Raja, Director and CEO of ICCA presented the initiative saying, “the ICCA Dubai AED 1 Million Culi-nary Scholarship Award is the culmina-tion of a vision we have had since we first opened our doors, 10 years ago.

It with complete support from the in-dustry and our strategic partners.

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This programme will completely change the lives of 30 underprivileged chefs ayear, while simultaneously boosting the industry with fresh, skilled resources and thereby helping take things to thenext level.”

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He added that, “with Dubai Expo 2020 rapidly approaching, the UAE tourism and hospitality sector will ex-perience massive growth, and we need to show these visitors that our offering is world-class, this is where training is paramount to make the difference.

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There is also a strong need to build a legacy beyond Dubai Expo 2020 and to provide opportunities post-event to help sustain the industry. Training pro-grammes should be aligned to the op-portunities and economic needs of the future – this is a smart approach to edu-cation, one that ties back to the Gov-ernment’s wider vision of developing a knowledge-based economy.

At ICCA Dubai, we are making that a reality.”

Thank You!