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
Life Cycle modelling of Land Use Changes and Advanced Fuels
March 31st – April 2nd, 2025
This 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. This course provides training in the needed methods for performing state-of-art consequential LCA of the modelling of land use changes and advanced biofuel and PtX pathways.
Advanced LCA – Consequential And IO Based Life Cycle Assessment
Online sessions 25th March – 24th April – Onsite sessions in Aalborg, Denmark 12-13-14 May
The course strengthens skills in life cycle inventory analysis. Activities include intensive group work, problem defining and solving applied to real-word cases, practical exercises, and discussion sessions. The course content is organized in three modules: Consequential LCA, Stochastic LCA and Input Output LCA.
Examples of previous courses
- Hands-on Consequential Life Cycle Inventory This 2-day course is for the practitioner who wants to gain practical skills in consequential life cycle inventory modelling.
- From attributional to consequential LCA This one-day course is for the expert in attributional LCA who wants to know the arguments for adding consequential LCA to the repertoire.
- Spatiotemporal life cycle assessment with Brightway Practical application of spatially- and temporally-dependent life cycle assessment (LCA) using the open source Brightway software framework. In depth course.
- 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.
- Advanced LCA – Consequential and IO-based Life Cycle Assessment 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.
- IO and Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment 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 is used for LCA studies
- 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.
- 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.
