Newsletter 1 : 2025, Swedish Life Cycle Center & Innovation cluster for the life cycle perspective. |
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Latest news from Swedish Life Cycle Center and Innovation cluster for the life cycle perspective.
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We are excited to share some recent achievements and updates from the Swedish Life Cycle Center. As we finalize, summarize, and evaluate the Innovation Cluster for the Life Cycle Perspective project, we are thrilled to announce that we have secured funding to continue this initiative until the end of 2027!
The current cluster has been very successful and with the continuation we have ensured that we can work for the development of the life cycle field and spread knowledge about the life cycle perspective both within our network and beyond for another two and a half year!
We are off to a great start in 2025 which also marks the start of a new three year stage for the Center (no. 11). With many exciting things to look forward to!
We're thrilled to have you with us as we start a new stage with a fresh vision and a new partner, read more about that below.
Sincerely, Anna Wikström, Yulia Liu and Maria Rydberg, Technical
Secretariat, Swedish Life Cycle Center
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Latest news from Swedish Life Cycle Center
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New stage focuses on advancing life cycle action
Entering a new three-year phase, Stage 11,
Swedish Life Cycle Center takes an important step forward in advancing life
cycle assessment (LCA) research and application. With a renewed focus, the
center is dedicated to turning life cycle thinking into action.
“We not
only envision applied life cycle thinking but also push towards life cycle
action for a sustainable future,” says Maria Rydberg, Director of Swedish Life
Cycle Center.
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Amiblu
joins as new partner
Amiblu,
specializing in GRP pipe solutions, joins Swedish Life Cycle Center! Active in
125 countries, they are committed to sustainable water infrastructure
solutions. Hear their perspective on LCA and their goals as a new partner.
| | | | Exploring life cycle thinking in practice
On
April 2–3, we hosted our two-day course in applied life cycle thinking,
bringing together 14 participants from industry and business. Interested in
joining next time? Register your interest for the autumn 2025 course to stay
informed!
| | | | Life Cycle Talks: standardization processes
On June 13, we welcome you to our next Life Cycle Talks. Ellen Riise and Pernilla Cederstrand from Essity will share insights into their work with standardisation processes and its relevance for life cycle approaches in industry.
Save the date!
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Latest news from partners & the life cycle community
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Rebound
effects in food-related LCA
SLU invites you to a
short survey on rebound effects in food-related LCAs. The aim is to better
understand current practices, challenges, and perspectives. This survey is part
of the EU Horizon project WASTEWISE.
| | | | Collaborate to transformChalmers invites to a full-day initiative seminar exploring how academia, industry, and society can co-create solutions.
How do we maintain sustainable production and resilience in a continuously changing world?
| | | | Register for LCM 2025Registration for the LCM 2025 conference in Palermo is now open.
Registration for the LCM 2025 conference in Palermo is now
open. The LCM (Life Cycle Management) Conference Series is one of the
world’s leading forums for environmental, economic and social sustainability.
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Journal article: Exploring the Environmental Impact of Textile
Recycling in Europe: A Consequential Life Cycle Assessment
Authors: Gustav Sandin, Matilda Lidfeldt, and Maja Nellström
Publisher: MDPI Sustainability
Journal article: Prospective life cycle assessment of organic redox
flow batteries
Authors: Shan Zhang, Athul Seshadri
Ramanujam, Rickard Arvidsson, Alessandro Michieletto, Ulrich S. Schubert
Publisher: EES batteries
Journal article: To burn or valorise bark from a pulp mill:
Environmental sustainability analysis using prospective consequential life
cycle assessment
Authors: Léa Braud, Lala Ramazanova, Daria
Lebedeva, Suthawan Muangmeesri, Elisabeth Ekener, Joseph S.M. Samec
Publisher: Science of The Total
Environment
Journal article: Assessment of the environmental and economic
performance for developing more circular trocar systems in healthcare
Authors: Sofia Lingegård, Michael Martin, Farideh Gheitasi
Publisher: Resources,
Conservation and Recycling
Journal article The
power of prevention and valorisation – Environmental impacts of reducing
surplus and waste of bakery products at retail
Authors: L. Bartek, A. Sjölund, P. Brancoli, C. Cicatiello, N.
Mesiranta, E. Närvänen, S. Scherhaufer, I. Strid, M. Eriksson
Publisher: Sustainable Production and
Consumption
Journal article: Climate
impact of yeast oil from fast-growing perennial biomass (willow)
Authors: Christian Sigtryggsson, Saurav Kalita, Hanna Karlsson-Potter, Volkmar
Passoth, Per-Anders Hansson
Publisher: Journal of Cleaner Production |
Webinar: In-Depth Assessment of the Need for Life Cycle Competence in Swedish Industry and Authorities
Date: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Time: 10:00-11:00 CEST
Place: Online via Zoom (link will been sent out with the meeting invitation)
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Life Cycle TalksDate: Friday, June 13th, 2025
Time: 10:00-10:30 CEST
Place: Online via Zoom
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To see all our upcoming activites visit our calendar.
| | | Collaboration opportunitiesSwedish Life Cycle Center plays an important role for all its actors within the Center to build networks, competence and influence future development. How the partnership is used is up to the partner. Partners value the direct contact to the network, research and high level discussions. Others are engaged in working groups that go in line with their organization’s agenda. And for some organizations, Swedish Life Cycle Center has been and is a key to their continuous work with life cycle related improvements and capacity building. The Center hosts a dialogue group with nine government agencies in Sweden, engages small and medium-sized companies through a letter of collaboration and enters into collaborative partnerships with other life cycle organizations at a global level. |
Watch our videos whenever you want !
Did
you miss to participate? You can find recordings and presentations
from our earlier webinars at our webpage and on our YouTube. |
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Swedish Life Cycle Center is a Center of Excellence and collaboration platform for academia, research institutes, industry and government agencies. It fosters competence-building and knowledge exchange in advancing and applying the life cycle field. The newsletter is sent from the project Innovation cluster for the life cycle perspective, with funding from the Swedish Energy Agency and partners in the Center.
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Swedish Life Cycle Center - Gothenburg, Sweden
lifecyclecenter@chalmers.se
www.lifecyclecenter.se
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