MultiView LCSA

MultiViewLCSA aims to bring together academia, industry and policy makers into a pan-European network to advance the research frontier of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) to facilitate sustainable business models (BM).

On the one hand, LCSA is on a relatively immature state which is characterized in terms of varied maturity in the assessment of three sustainability pillars (environmental, economic and social), limited data availability and data quality, unharmonized integration methodology, and manual LCSA tools with high requirements on personal skills.

On the other hand, emerging BMs such as servitization BM and dematerialized BM are flourishing. More traditional business sectors are making attempts to explore them to look for new profit growth points. Pushed by the strict sustainability regulations, they are willing to implement sustainable business scenarios with the innovative BMs.

However, the current LCSA methodology assess sustainability on basis of product rather than the way of creating value, and are too general to organize data in the view of BMs. With the vision of building sustainable society, this action will build an interdisciplinary community which involve the required expertise across the whole value chain to probe into feasible solutions in terms of multiple view modelling technique for LCSA, data governance framework and automatic LCSA tool. It will strengthen the collaborations between countries across and beyond Europe with concern of less research intensive countries. MultiViewLCSA will have a strong focus on knowledge sharing, and encourage early career researchers to play leadership roles in the Action to accelerate their career development.