PLANETS SSbD Training on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (1) (10.09.2025, online)

On 10 September 2025, PLANETS consortium organised an internal training on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment, with an introduction to the topic and theoretical background, with the main aim of harmonising the consortium’s understanding on this topic, particularly among innovators and industrial partners who are not directly involved in the project.

Highlights of the workshop

The session was moderated by Martin Himly (PLUS), who leads the training work package within PLANETS. He introduced the session, outlining the objectives and structure of the training, as well as background information.

Carla Caldeira (SYENSQO) introduced to SSbD and Life Cycle thinking. Loelia Fohet (IPC) and Thomas Hennequin (TNO) talked about environmental dimension (E-LCA). Laura Magnasco (RINA) was in charge of the Life Cycle Cost (LCC) and the social LCA (S-LCA). Finally, Eva Hahn (WACKER) talked about making decisions with LCA results.

During the break-out sessions, an interactive whiteboard exercise (prepared by Beatriz Alfaro (BNN)) was performed with the participants, to practice on functional units and reference flows.

An interactive poll was also performed with the participants, to get some insight into their level of experience with LCA and the challenges they encountered so far.

 Training Materials

Building on the insights from this internal training, PLANETS has developed external training materials as an introduction to LCA. These materials include:

• Presentation slides, with an LCA introduction giving also insight into life cycle cost (LCC) and social LCA
• A pdf of the collaborative white board used during the break-outs where process flows, functional unit and reference flows were determined
• Recording  [YouTube video]

All training materials are available in the PLANETS community on Zenodo under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, allowing for redistribution and reuse with proper credit to the creators. You can access them here, with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17399294.

Additionally, all recorded sessions can be viewed on the PLANETS YouTube channel.