Life Cycle Assessment Research Group
Applied research in environmental impact assessment
About us
Our commitment to research and education contributes to integrate life cycle thinking as a basis for ecological decisions in science, business, politics and society.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an impact assessment tool that comprehensively quantifies and evaluates the environmental impacts of products, services, technologies, and systems over the entire life cycle according to scientific criteria.
This impact assessment plays a key role in the optimisation of processes, products and services. It also serves to evaluate different energy concepts and strategies and to communicate environmental benefits.
Course of study
The LCA research group is responsible for the Bachelor minor Life Cycle Assessment and Label Management and is involved in the development of the Bachelor modules Life Cycle Assessment and Label Management and Renewable raw materials.
In the Master’s degree course the LCA Research Group is responsible for the module Advanced Life Cycle Assessment and Ecodesign.
Fields of research
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🌿 Biodiversity Working Group for Businesses launched 🌿 With the biodiversity crisis escalating to alarming levels, the role of businesses is becoming increasingly important. By taking measures to ...
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We had our bi-annual student colloquium and once again the students delivered! 👩🏫👨🏫 We spent an intense afternoon, where our students on Bachelor and Master level presented their term papers. It ...
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🎓 We held our first Master’s Thesis Defenses in Circular Economy Management 🎉 The ZHAW Master’s program in Circular Economy Management is still young, and we are celebrating the first students from ...
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A warm Welcome is in order 🙌🥳 We are delighted to introduce Corinna Bolliger to you, our newest member of Life Cycle Assessment @ ZHAW! Corinna holds a Master’s in Environment and Natural Resources ...
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We're happy to share that René Itten and Corinna Bolliger from Life Cycle Assessment @ ZHAW will be part of the Project NPower, which was officially launched in Cartagena, Spain! 🚀 #NPower is an ...
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🌀✇ The launch of CYCLEWIND ✇🌀 This new IEA Wind Task successfully kicked off 2 weeks ago at our campus at ZHAW Institut für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen IUNR. It was a pleasure to host this event ...
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🌱 Upcoming new project! 🌱 Peatless, our most recent Horizon Europe project, has received funding! Peatless will aim to accelerate the uptake of peat-free horticultural substrates, a crucial step ...
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🌟 Starting the year with good news! 🌟 René Itten from Life Cycle Assessment @ ZHAW has been successfully re-elected to the Board of Directors of Forum for Sustainability through Life Cycle ...
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🤩 Wow. What a great achievement if you can publish a peer-reviewed academic paper based on the results of your master thesis. 💪 👏Congratulations to Livia Somerville our master graduate from ZHAW ...
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