International Life Cycle Academy

30/10/2024

🚨NEW ILCA COURSE: AVANCED BIOFUEL MODELLING🚨

We're happy to announce that the first ILCA course of 2025 is open to registration.

The 2.5-day course gives a thorough background for understanding the LCA modelling of land use changes and advanced fuels.

The GHG emissions and environmental impacts differ significantly among advanced fuel productions, and far from all deliver the desired sustainable solution.

Therefore, it is key that we have robust environmental information on the different options.

This course provides training in the needed methods for performing state-of-art of the modelling of land use changes and advanced biofuel and pathways.

The course will be taught by professor Jannick Schmidt and LCA consultant Karen-Emilie Trier Kreutzfeldt.

Read more and register here:

This 2.5-day course gives a thorough background for understanding the LCA modelling of land use changes and advanced fuels. One of the most important prerequisites for avoiding a climate crisis is that we succeed scaling up the right advanced biofuels and power-to-x (PtX) solutions. However, there i...

29/04/2024

We are happy to announce that our introductory courses to consequential LCA modelling are now both confirmed! The courses are for intermediate and advanced LCA practitioners, who want to add consequential modelling to their toolbox or take their existing CLCA skills to the next level. There are still seats available, but don't wait too long - registration ends July 4th.

This one-day course is for the expert in attributional LCA who wants to know the arguments for adding consequential LCA to the repertoire.

05/03/2024

Are you planning on attending the LCA FOOD 2024 🥦 conference in Barcelona this September? Then we have two new ILCA courses planned from the 4th - 6th of September leading up to the conference. Both are for professionals who want to add consequential modelling to their LCA toolkit - A one day course for the ALCA expert, who wants to learn CLCA, and a two day course for the CLCA practitioner who wants to gain practical skills in consequential life cycle inventory modelling. Both courses are taught by professor Bo Weidema and associate professor Miguel Brandão. Read more and sign up here:

To inspire teachers of life cycle based quantitative sustainability assessment, the Academy is developing LCA courses with high-quality content.

01/03/2024

We at ILCA are proud to announce that the IO and Hybrid LCA course with Prof. Jannick Schmidt is now confirmed and will take place in Barcelona on May 27th – 29th, 2024. 🙌 There are still seats available, but don't wait too long - registration ends March 27th.

This course gives a thorough background for understanding both monetary and physical input-output models, and how the quality of an IO-table depends on the way it is made. The course gives an introduction to the most advanced and detailed hybrid IO-database: Exiobase v4 hybrid version – and how it...

06/12/2023

ILCA is happy to announce a new edition of the IO and Hybrid LCA course with Prof. Jannick Schmidt in Barcelona on May 27th – 29th, 2024. Enrolment info and read more:

This course gives a thorough background for understanding both monetary and physical input-output models, and how the quality of an IO-table depends on the way it is made. The course gives an introduction to the most advanced and detailed hybrid IO-database: Exiobase v4 hybrid version – and how it...

11/04/2023

10 days until we close enrolment for IO/Hybrid course in Barcelona:

This course gives a thorough background for understanding both monetary and physical input-output models, and how the quality of an IO-table depends on the way it is made. The course gives an introduction to the most advanced and detailed hybrid IO-database: Exiobase v4 hybrid version – and how it...

20/03/2023

The International Life Cycle Academy would like to remind you of the last of our spring semester courses for 2023:

IO and Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment
Wednesday 21th – Friday 23th June, 2023
This 2.5 day course gives a thorough background for understanding both monetary and physical input-output models, and how the quality of an IO-table depends on the way it is made. The course gives an introduction to the most advanced and detailed hybrid IO-database: Exiobase v4 hybrid version – and how it is used for LCA studies.

Link: https://ilca.es/io-and-hybrid-life-cycle-assessment/
Contact the course secretary to reserve your spot at: [email protected]

This course gives a thorough background for understanding both monetary and physical input-output models, and how the quality of an IO-table depends on the way it is made. The course gives an introduction to the most advanced and detailed hybrid IO-database: Exiobase v4 hybrid version – and how it...

16/03/2023

Perhaps of interest for you: A few seat still available at Chris Mutels Autumn School 2023: Open Approaches to Time in LCA:

Autumn school 2023 information and registration link.

18/01/2023

See here. Perhaps an inspiration for the upcoming course here at ILCA on Spatiotemporal life cycle assessment with Brightway: https://ilca.es/spatiotemporal-life-cycle-assessment-with-brightway/

17/01/2023

Our course with Chris Mutel in April still has few seats. This is a unique chance to start from scratch with Brightway and really take a deep dive in a week long course with Chris:

Practical application of spatially- and temporally-dependent life cycle assessment (LCA) using the open source Brightway software framework. Five teaching modules, each with theory lectures and working examples in the morning, and small-group exercises to translate concepts into applied knowledge in...

28/11/2022

We still have a few seats left for the new course, From LCC to LCSA – The whole journey in one week (in week 8, 2023): https://ilca.es/from-lcc-to-lcsa-the-whole-journey-in-one-week/
What is not to like?. A full LCA centred week in wonderful Barcelona in February.😍

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) = Life Cycle Costing (LCC) + Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in its most comprehensive form, including economic, social, and ecosystem impacts. The course Subject (lectures and exercises on): The course introduces the basic concepts of internal and external co...

23/11/2022

The new edition of LCSA course is now confirmed with a few seats left:

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) = Life Cycle Costing (LCC) + Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in its most comprehensive form, including economic, social, and ecosystem impacts. The course Subject (lectures and exercises on): The course introduces the basic concepts of internal and external co...