Program

DAY 1	Monday, October 24
14:00	REGISTRATION
14:30	WELCOME Paula Quinteiro & Cláudia Nunes \| Universidade de Aveiro, PT Fátima Poças \| Universidade Católica do Porto, PT Ana Isabel Miranda \| Director of Department of Environment and Planning - DAO, Universidade de Aveiro, PT Amadeu Soares \| Scientific Coordinator of Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies - CESAM, Universidade de Aveiro, PT João Coutinho \| Directorof Associate Laboratory CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, Universidade de Aveiro, PT Milena Corredig \| Cost Action Chair & Aarhus Universitet, DK
14:45	PRACTICAL MATTERS & INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKERS Paula Quinteiro & Cláudia Nunes \| Universidade de Aveiro, PT
15:15	WHAT IS LCA FOR? Paula Quinteiro \| Universidade de Aveiro, PT
15:45	APPLICATION OF LCA TO PACKAGING SYSTEMS: AN OVERVIEW Fátima Poças \| Universidade Católica Portuguesa, PT
16:15	REFRESHMENTS & SNACK
17:00	SOCIAL ACTIVITY – Tour on a traditional Moliceiro boat

DAY 2	Tuesday, October 25
09:00	INTRODUCTION ON LCA Key features of an LCA (what is LCA - why is LCA done - development of LCA) Phases of an LCA (goal and scope definition - inventory analysis - impact assessment – interpretation General concepts of product systems (product system - system boundary – functional unit – allocation - environmental impacts etc.) Ana Cláudia Dias \| Universidade de Aveiro, PT Paula Quinteiro \| Universidade de Aveiro, PT
10:30	REFRESHMENTS & SNACK
11:00	INTRODUCTION ON LCA (continuation) General concepts of product systems (product system - system boundary – functional unit – allocation - environmental impacts etc.) Ana Cláudia Dias \| Universidade de Aveiro, PT Paula Quinteiro \| Universidade de Aveiro, PT
12:30	LUNCH BREAK
14:00	CASE STUDY 1 Representation of food packaging in LCA Victoria Krauter \| University of Vienna, AT
15:00	CASE STUDY 2 A real-life case: LCA of food packaging in the canning industry Rúben Aldaco \| Cantabria University, ES
16:00	REFRESHMENTS & SNACK
16:15	CASE STUDY 3 Application of LCA to assess labelling options of a glass bottle Fátima Poças \| Universidade Católica Portuguesa, PT
17:15	PACKAGING DESIGN FOR FOOD Teresa Franqueira \| Universidade de Aveiro, PT
18:15	CLOSING

DAY 3	Wednesday October 26
09:00	INTRODUCTION TO PRODUCT ENVIRONMENT FOOTPRINT Marisa Vieira \| PRé Sustainability, NL
09:45	APPLIED LCA How to build up a SimaPro model Structure of a model and creating processes Impact assessment Marisa Vieira \| PRé Sustainability, NL
10:30	REFRESHMENTS & SNACK
11:00	HOW TO BUILD UP A SIMAPRO MODEL (continuation) Marisa Vieira \| PRé Sustainability, NL
12:30	LUNCH BREAK
14:00	SIMAPRO PRACTICE Case study of food packaging Life cycle inventory Life cycle impact assessment Hotspots analysis Marisa Vieira \| PRé Sustainability, NL
16:15	REFRESHMENTS & SNACK
16:30	SIMAPRO PRACTICE (continuation) Marisa Vieira \| PRé Sustainability, NL
18:00	CLOSING

DAY 4	Thursday, October 27
09:00	BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS FOR FOOD PACKAGING Cláudia Nunes \| Universidade de Aveiro, PT
09:45	CASE STUDIES 4 & 5 Ecodesign and Life cycle assessment of pharmaceutical packaging Ex-ante life cycle assessment framework and application to a biopolymer film market Fausto Freire \| Universidade de Coimbra, PT
10:45	REFRESHMENTS & SNACK
11:00	THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND ITS APPLICATION TO PACKAGING Paulo Ferrão \| Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, PT
11:30	BRAINSTORMING/ROUNDTABLE Learnings, limitation and challenges. Perspective of future work
12:30	CLOSING OF THE TRAINING SCHOOL Paulo Ferrão \| Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, PT Artur Silva \| Vice-Rector of Universidade Aveiro, PT Ana Isabel Miranda \| Diretor of DAO, Universidade de Aveiro, PT Paula Quinteiro & Cláudia Nunes \| Universidade de Aveiro, PT Fátima Poças \| Universidade Católica Portuguesa, PT Milena Corredig \| Cost Action Chair & Aarhus Universitet, DK