Membership
Why you should be an SCAE Member
Join the SCAE. Together we can make a better coffee world. Click here to download the registration form.
The SCAE vision is simple: We want a better coffee world.
When you become a member, you become part of a team that is pursuing this quality vision for the good of everyone in the coffee chain, from grower to consumer. Better coffee will bring more pleasure and prosperity to us all.
As a member you also enjoy benefits that increase your knowledge and sharpen your skills, helping you to reach new and lasting customers. Among the benefits of membership are:
- Attending international and national speciality coffee events, which include workshops, educational programmes, exhibitions, competitions and a lot more. Meet and mingle with friends and colleagues, have fun and beinspired. The next major international event will take place in Copenhagen in June 2008. Local Chapters also organise national or regional events.
- Through the SCAE's authorised trainer programme, you have access to regular top quality speciality coffee-related workshops and educational sessions.
- You can attend special events organised for roasters, cup tasters and baristas.
- If you are a Barista, you can have your knowledge and skills internationally certified through the SCAE Barista Certification Programme.
- As a member, you can stay in touch with what is happening in the coffee world. Our own full colour 48-page publication Café Europa is airmailed to you four times a year. You get complimentary six-month subscriptions to both Tea & Coffee Trade Journal and Fresh Cup. (At the end of the free subscription period, you can renew at specially discounted rates). And you have full access to the regularly updated news and information available on the SCAE website, www.scae.com.
- You can purchase educational materials, SCAE clothing and accessories at specially reduced member rates from the SCAE's own resource centre.
- When you quote your membership number, and you get favourable rates for all SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America) goods and activities.
- You can have your views heard: the SCAE's Board meetings are usually open and you are most welcome to attend and participate as an observer.
- You can take part in our activities by joining one of our committees. Give us the benefit of your experience in your sphere of interest, and you will find it both fun and educational.
- You can access all our members are represented on a constantly updated database and expand your coffee horizons.
- Seeing is believing, so the SCAE organises site trips for its members to coffee producing countries and to anywhere else that could improve your coffee knowledge. We've already had trips to India, El Salvador, Brazil Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Rwanda, and, in March 2007, we visited Colombia. You can join us on future trips to speciality coffee origins.
- You can be invited to cup tastings and quality coffee auctions, because the SCAE supports the Cup of Excellence Programme.
As proof of membership you receive a wooden plaque engraved with your name, along with an annual window sticker and a membership pin. The SCAE member’s logo can be used on your stationery, displaying to the world that you are committed to quality and to achieving a better coffee world.
Join the SCAE. Together we can make a better coffee world. Click here to download the registration form.