Thank you for connecting with CQI at the African Fine Coffees Association convention in Addis Ababa.
The mission of Coffee Quality Institute is to improve the quality of coffee and the lives of the people who produce it. We seek to accomplish that by offering education that allows learners to excel in quality evaluation and post-harvest processing.
Wednesday, February 7. 5:00 pm CQI Flavor Extravaganza with Coqua Trading. Join CQI at Coqua Trading to taste explore CQI Flavor Standards. Have fun, test yourself, and talk all things coffee quality with CQI.
CQI and Coqua will be hosting a fun workshop to explore and test your flavor identification skills. CQI Flavor standards, by FlavorActiV, will be tasted and tested. This is a great opportunity for cuppers who are interested in taking the Q Course or anyone who would want to have fun exploring their capacity to taste and identify coffee flavors. Come to taste, come to test, or just come to talk coffee with CQI! Click here to sign up.
Thursday, February 8, 5:30-7:00 pm CQI Happy Hour with Lulo. Q Graders and CQI Partners only. We're celebrating Q Graders and twenty years of the Q Course. Please join CQI and our host, Lulo Coffee, to acknowledge the anniversary and meet CQI's new CEO, Michael Sheridan. Register here.
Friday, February 9, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm at Lulo Coffee booth. Meet staff, ask questions, pick up pins - Booth A7
Saturday, February 10, 10:00-12:00 CQI at Lalcafe booth. Meet staff, ask questions, pick up pins - Booth A4
CQI has worked with AFCA for many years, and the two organizations recently signed a memorandum of understanding designed to recognize the organization's intention to partner in delivering education to member countries.
Hoping to improve and increase access to education in all coffee communities, CQI works with a global network of educators. You can look to see who is teaching and where the are from through our Instructor, Assistant Instructor and Lecturer pages. Interested in becoming a CQI educator yourself? There is information on how to do that, too.
Looking to participate in CQI education? You can find all upcoming classes through our database, you sign in through the upper right corner of the website. You can search by country to look for education available near you, or search "online" to see what is available there. If you do not see a convenient course you can check back occasionally, new courses are added all of the time.