Start Circles workshp - LCA analysis as a tool for environmental product design
Discussions on circular economy and sustainable development are increasingly present and essential in the current time. In this sense, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an important tool to support sustainable developmentby assessing a product´s potential environmental impacts.
We are pleased to invite you to attend the workshop within the Start Circles project, where we present Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) during the development phase of products, how it works in practice and who can benefit from it.
THE WORKSHOP WILL BE ORGANIZED FOR:
- Small, medium (SMEs) and large companies interested in the circular economy
- R&D organisations
REQUIRED PRIOR REGISTRATION – LINK HERE
DATE: October 13th 2021
TIME: 13:00 – 15:00
LOCATION: MS Teams event (link will be forwarded upon registration)
13:00-13:05 Welcome address Vanja Turicnik, Wood K plus
13:05-14:30 What is a Life Cycle Assessment and why is Important? LCA and SMEs, Benefits from LCA, Good practice examples, Dr. Franziska Hesser and Nadine Brunnhuber, Wood K plus
14:30-15:00 Discussion and conclusion
DI Dr. Franziska Hesser, MSc MSc is team leader of the team Market Analysis and Innovation Research (MAIF) of the Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH. She has a seven years working experience in the field of sustainability assessment with a focus on bio-based product systems in the R&D phase.
