PhD course: Advances in life cycle assessment, 7,5 HP/ECTS
Welcome to a course for PhD students that gives an in-depth orientation into current advances in life cycle assessment (LCA). It includes a broad range of LCA-related topics: the methodology, its application, its relation to other assessment tools, its role in decision-processes, etc.
It is a collaboration between the partner universities within the Swedish Life Cycle Center (SLC), with the main organizers being the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Chalmers University of Technology.
Objectives
The objective of this course is to give the student a broad view of current advances in LCA methodology and application, including knowledge on state-of-the-art research in selected areas. The course is an arena for disseminating the expertise and experiences of senior LCA researchers to a new generation of PhD students, and for helping the PhD students create a network of young LCA researchers.
Locations
The first week will be held in Gothenburg, at Chalmers University of Technology on the 25th-28th of August.
The second week will be held online the 1st-3rd of September.
The third week will be held in Uppsala, at SLU, campus Ultuna on the 15th-18th of September.
Course leaders
Rickard Arvidsson
Environmental Systems Analysis, Chalmers University of Technology
E-mail: rickard.arvidsson@chalmers.se
Dalia Abdelfattah
Department of Energy and Technology, SLU
E-mail: dalia.abdelfattah@slu.se