Mission Estate sets up scholarship for EIT wine science students

Food Science news:  20th November 2007

A student scholarship has been supporting research into promoting Hawke’s Bay as one of the world’s leading wine regions has been announced.

The Mission Estate Wine and Viticulture scholarship will be awarded annually to an Eastern Institute of Technology second-year Concurrent Bachelor of Wine Science/Bachelor of Viticulture student to take up in the third and fourth years of the conjoint degree.

The scholarship package, worth $12,000 over four years, has been contributed by Mission Estate Winery to acknowledge the pioneering spirit of the Marist fathers who first planted vines in Hawke’s Bay’s but also to stimulate critical research and development that is so necessary in the production of fine wines.

The scholarship will provide $1000 a year towards course fees and the student will also be offered 60 days paid work experience at Mission Estate winery.

In the third year of the four-year degree programme, the student will be required to undertake a research project as part of his or her studies, with research resources jointly provided by Mission Estate and EIT.

The following year, the student will submit a paper to the Romeo Bragato conference, held annually for New Zealand’s grape and wine industry. Mission Estate has committed to paying $1500 towards the student’s conference fees and associated transport and accommodation costs.

The scholarship is a “unique opportunity to integrate both the academic and practical aspects of grape growing and wine making over an extended period of time”, said Head of EIT’s School of Viticulture and Wine Science, Diane Marshall.

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