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Follow project activities, symposiums, student engagement, and developing collaborations around campus-based circular economies.
June
09
2025
Student engagement
CAPPUCCINO Student Symposium invites students to pitch circular-economy ideas
The CAPPUCCINO Student Symposium introduced students to the project’s campus-based circular-economy vision and invited them to develop business and project ideas involving spent coffee grounds.
Activities connected possible material applications with design thinking, human needs, entrepreneurship, and short team pitches.
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Highlights from CAPPUCCINO’s 2025 symposium series and collaborative activities.
APR282025
Civic engagement
Third symposium explores community-centered circular action
CAPPUCCINO’s third symposium focused on civic engagement and opportunities involving community gardens, food production, STEM participation, citizen science, responsible business, and international collaboration.
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MAR262025
Education and training
Second symposium considers learning opportunities around circular economies
The education and training symposium considered curriculum, entrepreneurship, responsible research and innovation, multidisciplinary learning, civic education, and sustainable development.
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MAR072025
research and innovation
First symposium connects research and innovation across disciplines
The opening symposium explored sustainable processing and applications involving materials, chemicals, food products, mushroom cultivation, additive manufacturing, and other uses of natural feedstocks and spent coffee grounds.
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