Stapel, NoorLupu, RobertoKötting, NilsHeller, MiroSorribas, VinyetBoulay, HugoDuarte, Abel J.BENEDITA CAMPOS NEVES MALHEIRO, MARIACastro Ribeiro, Maria Cristina deJUSTO, JorgeSilva, ManuelFerreira, PauloGuedes, Pedro2025-04-232025-04-232024-10-25Noor Stapel, Roberto Lupu, Nils Kötting, Miro Heller, Vinyet Sorribas, Hugo Boulay, Abel José Duarte, Benedita Malheiro, Cristina Castro Ribeiro, Jorge Justo, Manuel F. Silva, Paulo Ferreira (2024) “Growing Mushrooms on Coffee Grounds - An EPS@ISEP 2024 Project”, TEEM´24 - Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality 2024, 23-25 October, Alicante, Spainhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/29994CoffeeMush is an innovative and sustainable project developed as part of the European Project Semester (EPS) at ISEP in 2024. This student project aims to tackle waste management environmental problems by turning coffee waste into mushrooms, a valuable food source. CoffeeMush consists of a smart device providing optimal conditions for mushroom cultivation, complemented by a user-friendly Android application for remote monitoring and control. The design was guided by ethical, sustainability, market and technical considerations. The paper describes the theoretical background of the project, the technical design, and the prototype development and testing. The results show the feasibility of CoffeeMush as a practical and environmentally friendly solution for urban mushroom cultivation, and its impact on sustainable food production and waste reduction.engEngineering EducationEuropean Project SemesterCoffeeMushroomsCompostingSustainable Food Productionconference paper