With the environmental impacts of materials and processes gaining more attention, the desire and attempt to quantify these through life cycle assessment (LCA) analyses in recent years has resulted in several international certifications and legislation strategies, aiming to inform decision-making. The EU action plan for the Circular Economy, COM(2015) 614/2, not only examines options for a more coherent policy framework covering the different strands of work on EU product policy, but proposed a broad range of measurements to be implemented by 2019. The EU Member States have also underlined this motivation in their Council Conclusions on the EU action plan for the Circular Economy (10518/16).

Despite Life Cycle Thinking being already widely accepted as a guiding principle for designing the EU product policy framework, the practical implementation of Life Cycle based decision-making has been quite limited, mainly due to the fact that the needs of different end-users and stakeholders have not been properly acknowledged and/or effectively communicated.

Therefore, this workshop (organised by AMANAC cluster partners) aims to address the challenges and opportunities of Life Cycle based decision-making by offering different stakeholders a thorough review of various LCA technical and communication barriers. It will consider social and economic perspectives to facilitate a thorough and holistic sustainable approach.

Confirmed speakers:

Olga Rio Suarez, Industrial Technologies: Advanced materials and Nanotechnologies, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission

Doris Schröcker, Head of Unit of Industrial Technologies: Strategy, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission

Lucía Iñigo Paarman, CDTI, Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain and Spanish Representative to the NMBP Management Programme Committee

Gian Marco Revel, ECTP, Università Politecnica delle Marche

Ιoanna Deligkiozi, ASRHAE Hellenic Chapter

Katherine Adams, Loughborough University

Giorgio Urbano, RINA Consulting S.p.A.

Shahab Resalati, Oxford Brooks University

Owen Abbe, BRE

Jakub Heller, Geonardo

Helen Luisa, USTUTT

Callum Hill, NIBIO

Gabriela Urbanová, FENIX

Luis Enriquez, Ecodek

Chris Berkhout, LM Wind Power

Esteban Camacho, RDC

James Ling, Greenovate!

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