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Growing mushrooms: Developing a value chain and business model

This teaching project was funded by the Foundation Innovation in University Teaching as part of the DeLLFi project (FBM2020-EA-1670-01800).
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Facts

Lecturers

Dr. Ana Salvatierra-Rojas (project manager)
approx. 80 international students

Title and contents of the funding project

In the module 4403-470, module participants have been cultivating mushrooms since 2019 as an exercise for the part of the lecture that focuses on "Solar Drying". This practical task is the starting point for developing a value chain and business model that will be based on renewable energy.

So far, a mushroom culture has been managed jointly by all course participants. In a new approach this summer semester, course participants will each manage a mushroom crop in groups of five to ten and measure temperature during cultivation with data loggers.

The individual groups are then given different tasks, which they present live or as a video. To this end, face-to-face lectures are to be supported by a blended learning concept, which is to be developed with the requested funding.

Subject-related semester

Course format

Module 4403-470 Renewable Energy in Rural Areas is held as a block during the summer semester.

Number of students

80 students (international)