Copenhagen Coffee Academy strives to create a rich and creative coffee culture by gathering the best skills and the most up to date knowledge, and thereby harvest the synergy effect of this meeting to the benefit of all participants. The concrete network is people in the milieu of Café Europa in Copenhagen which includes a variety of people in the Danish and international coffee culture and the relevant units in the universities of Denmark that are engaged in coffee and milk.

In addition to the synergy effect it gives to have enthusiastic craftsmen meeting each other, we similarly have great expectations to see the synergy effect of our activities in molecular gastronomy where skilled craftsmanship meets science. Our focus on service and cultural aspects makes us contribute to defining the role of the barista.

Copenhagen Coffee Academy (CCA) is an education and consulting business that concentrates on coffee and all the related aspects of running a coffee business.

Copenhagen Coffee Academy is:

• Jens Nørgaard. Manager of CCA and owner of Cafe Europa and have been co-founder of the Danish SCAE chapter. Co-founder of the Nordic Barista Cup. Former chairman WBC rules and regulations committee. Editorial advisor - Barista Magazine.
• Martin Hildebrandt. Manager of CCA and world barista champion in 2001 and 3rd place in 2000. Managing Director of Cafe Europa from 1994. Nominated SCAE awards 2004, silent achiever. Judge at several competitions including WBC.
• Troels Overdal Poulsen is the World Barista Champion 2005 and was a valued barista at Cafe Europa before he joined Kontra Coffee. He has been the main teacher for the baristas of the cafe for 2 years. He placed 4.th at WBC 2003 and is presently doing a lot to promote speciality coffee world wide.
• Kurt Dalsgaard Co founder and partner of AMOKKA for seven years and now Managing Director in KONTRA Coffee. Kurt has nearly ten years of experience in micro roasting and the specialty coffee industry and been involved in founding the Danish chapter of SCAE.
• Morten Münchow is a biologist that has been interested in the chemistry of espresso coffee and related milk issues and has been working on educational strategies of teaching chemistry to non-chemists as baristas. Has done the first molecular model af cappuccino foam in cooperation with Richard Ipsen at the Danish Dairy University.
• Andreas Kragh started out as a barista at café Europa in 1998. Within few years he positioned himself as being one of the main strategic organizers of the Danish Chapter of Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE). He has taken great part in formalising the rules of World Barista Championship (WBC) by being one of the main creators of the Rules and Regulations Manual (2003). Through establishing the Nordic Barista Cup (NBC) Mr. Kragh has taken a tremendous part of creating a Scandinavian environment concentrated on evolving and sharing the coffee knowledge.
• Michael de Renouard Roastmaster, ormer wine seller and wine importer. Co-founder and former partner of Kaffeplantagen Café.
  Joined Kontra in 2006 as shop manager.
  Today, he is roastmaster, buyer of green coffee beans, developer of our coffee selection and responsible for roasting profiles.
• Björg Brend Communication and Cupping Manager. Barista at Café Europa from 1995 until 2000. Degree in Journalism in 2005. Co-organizer of Nordic Barista Cup.
  Responsible for cupping and communication at Kontra since 2006.
• Simon Falk Nørregaard Jeweler, educated at Georg Jensen.Extremely passionate coffee nerd for a decade, worked as an independent show barista from 2005 until 2008.
  Shop manager at Kontra Coffee and teacher at Copenhagen Coffee Academy. Expert in coffee culture.