CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – 2nd seminar on FOOD-LCA methodologies

EXTENDED Deadline for submissions 4th of April

Dear researcher or student working in the food life cycle assessment research,

We want to facilitate interaction between researchers and students by organizing 2nd open research seminar where researchers and students can present their own research topics and studies related to methodological issues, challenges and possible solutions in the life cycle assessment of food products.

The seminar will be held on Wednesday 3rd of May 2023 from 9-11.30

If you are interested, send us a max A4 abstract that includes the approach, the main research questions, and the main content of your presentation (objective, methods, possible results / conclusions) in a concise way, up to 4000 characters. Abstracts must be received by Tue 4th of April 2023. Based on the abstracts, a wide range of presentations that address one or more challenges related to food product life cycle assessment methods will be selected for the seminar. Presenters will be informed by Fri 21st April. Presentations and abstracts can be either in Finnish or in English. The lengths of the presentations will be decided after closing the program and presenters will be informed about the decisions.

The event is open and free to everyone. The format of the event (online with TEAMS or hybrid in TEAMS/Viikki, Helsinki) will to be specified later. The presentations and abstracts will be published on the project website. The abstracts of the 1st seminar 12/2021 can also be found from there.

The seminar is part of the Development and harmonization of Life Cycle Assessment for food products (LCA FOODPRINT) -project. The aim is to develop and harmonize science-based methods for life cycle assessment of food, while ensuring methods are also applicable in practice. The goal is to provide reliable information on the environmental footprints of food production and products. Science-based methods for life-cycle models and assessments can improve the comparability of results, and thus, their reliability. This is important especially in public use, when assessing, publishing, and comparing the environmental impacts of individual food products.

Send your abstract or further questions to: Hannele.Heusala@luke.fi.

Welcome!