Students

  • Understand the concept of climate change and the planetary boundaries
  • Understand natural and fossil resource flows
  • Understand and assess the concept of life cycle (LCA): Carbon footprint and ecological footprint
  • Know how to adjust material use in the context of a life cycle of a product or a process via Higg Index
  • Know methods of transparency and traceability
  • Understand and assess the concept of social life cycle (sLCA)

Methods 

  • Online Course/Self Learning
  • The analysis of selected scientific articles of LCA
  • Conducting and interpreting a own LCA
  • Conducting and interpreting a own sLCA
  • Group work and group feedback