Courses on‑site

To inspire teachers of life cycle based quantitative sustainability assessment, the Academy is developing course plans and high-quality content, and runs pilot demonstrations of the developed courses.

Below you can see a dynamic list of current course offerings and below that examples of course plans developed by the International Life Cycle Academy. Based on this you can request to join similar courses via a waitlist. You can also request a tailor-made course for your organisation. Courses are updated for each edition, and therefore we do not have ‘standard’ prices listed. For enquiries write to us at:

Current LCA courses

IO and Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment
June 21^th – 23^th 2023. (Applications open)
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.

Spatiotemporal life cycle assessment with Brightway
April 24^th – 28^th 2023 (Full with wait list)
Practical application of spatially- and temporally-dependent life cycle assessment (LCA) using the open source Brightway software framework.

Advanced LCA – Consequential and IO based Life Cycle Assessment 
April 11^th – May 15^th 2023 (Full with wait list)
This course aims at strengthening skills in life cycle inventory analysis. The course introduces advanced inventory modelling using the techniques of consequential LCA and input-output (IO) LCA.

Examples of course plans

• From LCC to LCSA – The whole journey in one week Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) = Life Cycle Costing (LCC) + Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in its most comprehensive form, including economic, social, and ecosystem impacts.
• Regionalised Life Cycle Assessment with the Brightway 2.5 LCA software An introduction to the use of the Brightway 2.5 Open Source LCA software with a particular focus on applying it to regionalised assessments. The matrix foundations of LCA, their adaptation for different types of regionalisation, and its use for uncertainty analysis.
• IO and Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment – An Introduction for LCA Practitioners This course gives a thorough background for understanding both monetary and physical input-output models and gives an introduction to the most advanced and detailed hybrid IO-database: Exiobase v3
• Advanced IO and Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment – Constructing and Improving IO Databases in Hybrid Units This course start with the intro-course but then provides the practical skills for building and improving IO LCA databases. With hands-on exercises we construct detailed IO databases and discuss challenges and developments.
• Consequential Life Cycle Assessment modelling An in-depth introduction to the technique of consequential Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) modelling via case studies of real life applications. The relation to the ISO standards for LCA. The challenges of completeness, consistency, uncertainty etc.
• Economic equilibrium in LCA: assumptions, data and modelling This course is dedicated to the modelling of markets in LCA, with special focus on the assumptions adopted and the data required. It includes both lectures and exercises.
• Life cycle data and data quality management This course looks at effective and efficient ways to collect, store, retrieve and edit data for Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Analysis. Benefits and limitations (e.g. uncertainty) of the different types of data are examined.
• Modelling indirect land-use changes in Life Cycle Assessment This course is dedicated to the state-of-the-art modelling of agricultural systems that incur in indirect land-use changes (iLUC), which arise from increasing demand for agricultural products (particularly biofuels). It includes both lectures and exercises.
• Practical uncertainty analysis in Life Cycle Assessment This course aims to strengthen practice of uncertainty assessment in Life Cycle Assessment. The course will provide the background for understanding the basic math of LCA-modeling, uncertainty propagation, correlations between variables and global sensitivity analysis.
• Advanced Life Cycle Impact Assessment This course begins by giving an overview of the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) phase of LCA studies. The second half of the course presents a deep dive into the modelling aspects involved in the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) phase of LCA studies.