Professional Training

in Sustainability

The CIRAIG offers a number of professional sustainability trainings, catered to professionals, managers, LCA practitioners, students, professors, and researchers. Our team experts regularly teach group trainings on topics ranging from Carbon footprint + Water footprint, to high-level implementation of life cycle assessment tools on a strategic level, to specific tools for optimizing your LCA methodology. See our Regular Programming for more information. 

These trainings are available on-demand and are organized several times per year by registration in our regular programming. 

Each of our training programs may be personalized and offered privately to your organization. Some of our trainings, like Brightway2 and openLCA are exclusively available on-demand. See our Customized Training for more information. 

Please note that for the time being all of our trainings are exclusively offered online via video-conference.

Regular Programming

Join a group training at our discounted group rates. Scroll down to see dates for our upcoming trainings.

Life cycle analysis for organizations

The objective of this training is to provide an understanding of the scope of life cycle assessment (LCA) (information generated and potential applications) in order to strategically integrate it into a decision-making process. Elements presented: life cycle concept, stages of an LCA according to ISO 14 040 and concrete examples of companies that have integrated life cycle thinking into their practices.
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Understanding Social LCA in a business context

The challenge of social LCA is to identify the potential social impacts arising from the activities of companies involved in the value chain of a product or service, to their stakeholders. More and more public or private decision-makers wish to better understand the consequences of their decisions and to identify avenues for continuous improvement, it therefore appears necessary to also consider the social effects of the choices made (type of investment, choice of suppliers, income distribution, etc.).
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Understand, quantify and valorize the Water Footprint

This course deals with the water footprint based on life cycle analysis, as defined in the ISO 14 046 standard. The implementation of sustainable water management involves the identification of impacts. of human activity and the determination of possible levers of action: this is the goal of the water footprint. The water footprint quantifies the potential impacts associated with water, both in terms of water quality and quantity.
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ecoinvent3 and the Quebec Life Cycle Inventory Database

The ecoinvent v3 database is significantly different in many ways from older ecoinvent databases and other databases on the market. Also, ecoinvent v3 contains several datasets specific to the Quebec context, from the Quebec Life Cycle Inventory database project. The goal of the training is to allow a customer already able to perform LCAs to understand how ecoinvent v3 works.
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Life Cycle Thinking for Circular Economy Strategies

With the growing interest of organizations in the concept of circular economy, many strategies are put forward to improve the circularity of products or services. But what are the environmental benefits or impacts of these strategies? Is it always better to close the loop? How can the circular economy be anchored more concretely in a context of sustainability? Life cycle thinking, and one of its tools, life cycle assessment, can provide answers to these questions.
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LCA for Sustainable Buildings

The development of more sustainable infrastructure is at the heart of our societies’ objectives, as outlined for example in goals 9 and 11 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this context, more and more building certifications such as LEEDv4 or the zero-carbon building standard are based on life cycle thinking for some of their evaluation criteria. Such an approach notably allows a better distinction between the potential environmental or social impacts of a building according to the different stages of its life cycle, in particular the distinction between intrinsic and operational impacts. It thus makes it possible to promote more informed decision-making, whether in the design of a building or its renovation.
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Using an impact method and interpreting the results of an LCA, from a practitioner’s point of view

As an LCA practitioner, it is sometimes difficult to navigate the different impact methods available and to know how to interpret them. The purpose of this training is to demystify the impact assessment and interpretation phases of LCA in order to better understand how to use the different impact methods and interpret them appropriately. The training takes a practical perspective (not the impact method developer’s perspective) based on the use of the IMPACT World+ regionalized impact methodology.
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Customized Training

for your organization's needs

Our team experts are available to provide any of our regular offering, customized to your organization’s needs. We can offer these trainings privately to your team. Some of our trainings are available exclusively on-demand: Brightway2 and openLCA. 

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The following trainings are exclusively available on-demand:

openLCA, Life Cycle Assessment available to all

The purpose of the training is to provide the necessary knowledge to perform life cycle analysis (LCA) on openLCA independently. openLCA is a free and open source open source ACV software. A general knowledge of LCA is required.


with Jean-François Ménard and Laure Patouillard

Brightway2, an advanced software in LCA Research

Brigthway2 is an open source (Python) LCA platform, useful for creating models that go beyond the conventional limits of LCA. The goal of the training is to provide the knowledge needed to start using Brightway2 in your projects. An understanding of LCA and the calculations involved, as well as a basic knowledge of Python is required.


with Maxime Agez
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