ORIENTING
The ORIENTING project presented its final results April 18th 2024 during the project Final Conference in Brussels (Belgium), which included also an accelerator session under the World Circular Economy Forum 2024. 120 people attended the event, both in person and online, to get to know all the work done by the project partners and to discuss about the role of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment methodologies in supporting the policy process.
The main results of the project have been the development of several materials, consisting in methodologies and tools, that aim to help companies, organizations and researchers, among other stakeholders, to implement a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) for goods, services and processes.
With all these materials, the ORIENTING project wants to boost a sustainable transition in all the companies, including SMEs, and make steps to help accomplish the European Green Deal. ORIENTING has engaged with policy makers about the use of LCSA in the policy process, discussing about and identifying what would be needed for creating a market for sustainable products and activities in the European Union.
To read the full press release, please see below.
About ORIENTING project
ORIENTING was a research project working to develop an operational methodology for product Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). Its main purpose was to integrate a life cycle approach that included the analysis of environmental, social and economic impacts, with the inclusion of indicators for circularity and criticality.
The project participants covered the entire value chain of life cycle evaluations and provided a critical mass of expertise and excellence in key areas. The partners were Aclima, Anthesis, BASF, Ecoinnovazione, Ecoinvent, Ecopreneur.eu, EIFER, Fraunhofer, Leiblein, PRé, Solana, Stora Enso, Tecnalia, Ternua Group, Universiteit Gent, University for the Creative Arts and VTT Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus. ORIENTING was funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, one of the biggest EU Research and Innovation programmes ever. The project started on the 1st of November 2020 and ran for 42 months with an overall budget of 5,997,339 euros.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No 948231.
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