General

Welcome to Advanced LCA – consequential modelling, EIO LCA, iLUC, and social LCA

Description:
The course combines state of the art LCA with PBL-learning.
The students have the option of writing a paper based on their specific PhD projects combined with the knowhow they develop during the course.

Day 1-2: Consequential modeling in life cycle inventory
Lecturers: Professor Bo Weidema, Associate Professor Jannick Schmidt, Associate Professor Søren Løkke, Assistant professor Massimo Pizzol

Day 3: Input-output modeling (the basics, hybrid LCA, IO-based mass flow analysis and waste accounts)
Lecturers: Professor Bo Weidema, Associate Professor Jannick Schmidt, Associate Professor Søren Løkke, Assistant professor Massimo Pizzol

Day 4: Modeling of indirect land use change (iLUC)
Lecturers: Professor Bo Weidema, Associate Professor Jannick Schmidt, Associate Professor Søren Løkke, Assistant professor Massimo Pizzol

Day 5: Social LCA. Lecturers: Professor Bo Weidema

Organizer: Søren Løkke, email: loekke@plan.aau.dk (contact person), Bo Weidema, Jannick Schmidt and Massimo Pizzol

Lecturers: Søren Løkke, Jannick Schmidt, Bo Weidema, and Massimo Pizzol

ECTS: 5 or 8
The course has five days with face-to-face teaching, dialogue, and problem solving, this corresponds to 5 ECTS. Optionally, participants can choose to write a paper based on own case and learning from the course, and receive professional guidance based on distance supervision. The final submission of the paper will have deadline 6 weeks after the first day of the course. This corresponds to additional 3 ECTS.