Training
Below is the training and education offered through the Swedish Life Cycle Center and its partners. Described below are the Center’s two-day course in Applied Life Cycle Thinking, the biannual PhD course organized by the Center’s academic partners, and a list of courses offered at the partner universities.
Two-day course in Applied Life Cycle Thinking
The life cycle perspective, understanding the environmental impacts of a product or service throughout the value chain, is gaining increased importance in business as well as in public sector and authorities. In this two-day course you will get a deeper understanding on how to apply life cycle thinking in your organization, through real cases and proven methods. You will get sufficient time to practice your new skills during the course and ask the experienced course leaders and guest lecturers for support.
The course is aimed for you who need a better understanding of the life cycle perspective, life cycle assessment (LCA) and its role for sustainable development in your organization. You work for example as a strategist, environmental coordinator / environmental manager, buyer or investigator in public sector or business and focus on sustainability. No prior knowledge in LCA is required.
Course information
Location: at Chalmers University of Technology
Date: April 2-3, 2025
Time: Day 1: kl. 09.00-16.00 (CEST)
Day 2: 09.00-16.00 with a voluntary Q&A session until 16.30 (CEST).
Place: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Price: 15 000 SEK ex VAT (Partners get a 20% discount)
Language: The course will be held in English.
I’m interested in taking the course, but I’m unavailable for the upcoming dates.
Registration of interest to the course Applied Life Cycle Thinking
PhD course: Advances in life cycle assessment, 7,5 HP/ECTS
This course is a biannual course. The next occasion will be held in August-September 2025. The course gives an in-depth orientation into current advances in life cycle assessment (LCA). It includes a broad range of LCA-related topics: the methodology, its application, its relation to other assessment tools, its role in decision-processes, etc. It is a collaboration between the partner universities within the Swedish Life Cycle Center (SLC), with the main organizers being the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Chalmers University of Technology.
The objective of this course is to give the student a broad view of current advances in LCA methodology and application, including knowledge on state-of-the-art research in selected areas. The course is an arena for disseminating the expertise and experiences of senior LCA researchers to a new generation of PhD students, and for helping the PhD students create a network of young LCA researchers.
Course information
Start: August-September 2025
Place: Gothenburg, Uppsala and online
For whom: PhD students, with five spots available for professionals
Arranged by: A collaboration between the partner universities within the Swedish Life Cycle Center (SLC): Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Chalmers University of Technology and KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Some of the senior LCA researchers and lecturers involved in the course include:
Tomas Ekvall, Ann-Marie Tillman, Michael Hauschild, Rickard Arvidsson, Henrikke Baumann, Mathias Janssen, Gregory Peters, Paola Federica Albizzati, Bengt Steen, Göran Finnveden, Sverker Molander, Ulrika Palme, Niclas Ericsson, Martyn Futter, Dilip Khatiwada, Björn Spak, and Elisabeth Ekener.
LCA courses at partner universities
At Swedish Life Cycle Center´s partner universities there are a number of different LCA courses available. In the list below you can find a summary of the courses that are offered at our partner universities, Chalmers University of Technology, KTH and SLU. Please note that some of the courses are only possible to apply to if you are part of a program at the respective schools.
| Name (course code) | University | Level | Credits |
| Energi- och livscykelanalys (TN0285) | SLU | Bachelor | 5 |
| Livscykelanalys för miljö- och vattenteknik (TN0313) | SLU | Master | 5 |
| System- och livscykelanalys (MX0132) | SLU | Bachelor | 5 (out of total 15) |
| Life cycle assessment (VTM081) | Chalmers | Master | 7,5 |
| Environmental System Analysis (VMI010) | Chalmers | Master | 7,5 |
| Life cycle engineering (BOM250) | Chalmers | Master | 7,5 |
| Circular economy (TEK680 ) | Chalmers | Master | 7,5 |
| Life cycle assessment (AG2800) | KTH | Master | 7,5 |
| Ecodesign (MF2032 ) | KTH | Master | 6,0 |
| System Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment (BB2570 ) | KTH | Master |