Academy Awards & Scholarships
The International Life Cycle Academy recognizes excellence in the field of quantitative sustainability assessment through various initiatives such as awards and scholarships.
2025 LCA Teaching Scholarships
ILCA offered scholarships to support university teachers who wanted to attend our courses and improve the incorporation of Life Cycle Assessment into their curriculum. The initiative aimed to help passionate educators gain valuable knowledge in Life Cycle Assessment, even if they or their institutions didn’t have the financial means to join our regular courses.
2025 Scholarship Recipients:
- Dr. Mohamed Beidari (Polytechnic School of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
- Dr. Claudia Alanis (UAEMEX, Mexico)
- Ramesh Khanal (Nepal Engineering College, Nepal)
The scholarships were awarded based on candidates’ teaching experience, commitment to incorporating LCA methodology in course curriculum, and demonstrated ability to benefit their students with enhanced LCA knowledge.
2019 Academy Awards
The 2019 Awards honored contributions of outstanding quality within the field of quantitative sustainability assessment, with equal weight given to scientific content and application/communication. Awards were presented at LCM 2019 in three categories:
Best contribution to policy application of LCA: Annekatrin Lehmann (Technical University of Berlin) for “Life Cycle Based CO2 Emission Credits: Options for Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Current Tailpipe Emissions Regulation in the Automotive Industry”
Best contribution to sustainable consumption: Katerina S. Stylianou (University of Michigan) for developing the HEalth Nutritional Index (HENI), a practically applicable method for linking individual food items to changes in dietary health risk
Best contribution to sustainable production: Joseph Poore (University of Oxford) for the meta-study “Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers” published in Science, which provided crucial evidence for the importance of dietary change
The 2019 Award
2017 Academy Awards
The inaugural Academy Awards were presented at the SETAC Europe LCA Case Studies Symposium on November 28th, 2017. This was the first year the awards were presented, recognizing contributions of outstanding quality within the field of quantitative sustainability assessment. The awards were supported by Springer and Elsevier, with winners receiving book vouchers and publication opportunities.
Best contribution to LCA modelling: Matthias Buyle (University of Antwerp) for research on identifying marginal suppliers of construction materials
Best contribution to sustainable production: Md. Uzzal Hossain (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) for a comprehensive study on allocation of supplementary cementitious materials
Best contribution to sustainable consumption: Ardeshir Raihanian Mashhadi and Sara Behdad (University at Buffalo) for “Environmental Impact Assessment of the Heterogeneity in Consumers’ Usage Behavior: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach”
Best contribution to policy application of LCA: Fabio Iraldo (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa) for research on product durability combining LCA and LCC methodologies
Best contribution to LCA communication or teaching: Helena Mälkki (Aalto University) for “An overview of life cycle assessment (LCA) and research-based teaching in renewable and sustainable energy education” – recognized as both a current contribution and lifetime achievement award
Awards were given in six categories across 898 qualifying articles published after November 2016:
The 2017 Award
Helena Mälkki receiving her 2017 Award for both
lifetime effort and best current article on LCA teaching.