Period: 28-30/08/17

Place: Auditorium of Didatic Center of Animal Nutrition (BDNA) – Faculty of Animal Science and Food Engineering – University of São Paulo – FZEA/USP (see map below)

Registration:

Participating in the modality of graduate course:
Period of Registration: 01-18/08/17; please contact Graduate Service for more information (maria.cecilia.silva@usp.br; +55 19 3565 4281).

Participation in the modality of simple course (with participation certificate):
Send us the form registration (below) until 24/08/17

Number of participants: up to 30 participants will be accepted (if necessary, registrations will be analyzed and confirmed until 08/25/2017).

Professors:

Program

28/08
9:00 am – brief introduction and presentation of the course (Prof. Danielle and Prof. Holmer) – 30 minutes
9:30 am – Environmental Impact & the role of Life Cycle Assessment – 1 hour
10:30 am – LCA Principles & Standards
– Interactive setting of boundaries & function unit for own material
– Participants are asked to decide in advance about one topic for interactive study during the course (ideally that they’re working on) – 2 hours

29/08
9:00 am – Process Mapping Activity – All day long – with 2 hour drop in at the end of the day with Prof. Danielle

30/08
9:00 am – Principles of modelling & conducting inventory analysis & potential next steps – 1 hour
– Presentation of computing (software) tools
– Using LCA to guide material develop & selection – the bigger picture – 30 mins summing up
– General questions – 30 min
– Inventory analysis & potential next steps – 1 hour
– Presentation of computing (software) tools
– Using LCA to guide material develop & selection – the bigger picture – 30 mins summing up
– General questions – 30 min
– Wrap up

Course Dynamics
Participants should preferably choose a topic to work on during the course (“case study”), which may be, for example, their own research study (graduate study or an applied study).
The Profa. Danielle will accompany all the individual LCA works of the participants until Friday, 09/01/2017 (or if necessary until 06/09 of the following week).

Place

Auditorium of Didatic Center of Animal Nutrition (BDNA) – Faculty of Animal Science and Food Engineering – University of São Paulo – FZEA/USP – 225 Duque De Caxias Norte Avenue, Jd. Elite – Pirassununga, São Paulo

Registration

Please send us the form below:

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