Newsletter 6: 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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Dear all, It’s that time of year when we pause to celebrate the achievements of the past months, look ahead to what’s next, and take a moment to enjoy the season’s festivities.
One highlight for 2026 will be a very special milestone: Swedish Life Cycle Center celebrates its 30th anniversary on 18 November. This marks three decades of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and progress within the life cycle field – a journey we’re proud to continue together.
2025 has been an eventful and rewarding year filled with many fruitful working groups meetings, high-quality Life Cycle Talks, and both a Network mingle and a Network conference (and so much more!). At the Technical Secretariat, we’ve also welcomed a new colleague, Sofia Jonson Veloso, who joins us as Project Manager. You can learn more about Sofia in the newsletter below.
Now we would like to wish you happy holidays and a fantastic start to 2026!
Sincerely,
Anna Wikström, Sofia Jonson Veloso and Maria Rydberg, Technical Secretariat, Swedish Life Cycle Center |
Latest news from Swedish Life Cycle Center
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Life Cycle Talks with Stefano ZuinIn March, we invite you to our next Life Cycle Talks. Stefano Zuin, Competence Area Lead at Electrolux will talk about LCA and life cycle thinking at Electrolux. See our latest Life Cycle Talks about the EU environmental policy landscape in a nutshell – now available at YouTube.
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We have a new project manager – Sofia Jonson VelosoWe are excited to introduce Sofia Jonson Veloso, our new project manager at Swedish Life Cycle Center! With a background spanning international climate projects, corporate sustainability, and corporate climate finance, Sofia brings valuable expertise to the center.
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Webinar Consistent LCA standardsOn December 10, results from the project Consistent standards for Life Cycle Assessment was presented at a well-visited webinar. If you missed it or want to revisit the webinar it has been made available at Swedish Life Cycle Center Youtube Channel. A project report from the project will also be published in the beginning of next year.
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Two-day course in Applied Life Cycle ThinkingRegistration is now open for our popular two-day course, Applied Life Cycle Thinking, which will take place on 22–23 April 2026 at Chalmers in Gothenburg. You are warmly welcome to register or help us spread the invitation.
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Latest news from partners & the life cycle community
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Invitation to become a funding partner of the Life Cycle InitiativeThe Life Cycle Initiative is a multi-stakeholder partnership hosted by UNEP since 2002 which provides a global forum to ensure access to life-cycle knowledge as a public good to support decisions and policies towards sustainability. The work of the Life Cycle Initiative would not be possible without the support of its sponsors. By contributing to the Initiative, organizations gain access to practical guidance and tools to align their operations with United Nations environmental and social development commitments. If you are interested in becoming a funding partner, please get in touch with Archana Datta at archana.datta@un.org.
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SETAC LCA Symposium: Session proposalsLast day to apply for session proposals to SETAC Europe 27th LCA Symposium is 14 January 2026. The theme for the conference is "Designing Tomorrow: Advancing Life Cycle Approaches for European Sustainability Initiatives".
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LCIC 2026
Call for abstracts and workshops at the LCIC conference 2026 is open until the end of January 2026. More information about the conference is available at their website.
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Journal article: Green liquor dregs for carbon capture, utilization, and storage: initial LCA and economic analysisAuthors: Shavalieva, Gulnara, Olivegren, Harald, Baumann, Henrikke, Leventaki, Emmanouela, Couto Queiroz, Eduarda and Bernin, Diana Publisher: Nordic Pulp & Paper Research Journal |
Life Cycle Talks: with Stefano Zuin, ElectroluxDate: 12 March, 2026
Time: 10:00-10:30 CET
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Course: Assessing the Environmental Performance of Business ModelsDate: 18 March, 2026
Place: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
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Two days course in Applied Life Cycle ThinkingDate: 22-23 April, 2026
Place: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
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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. |
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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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