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We tailor our support to your needs – whether you're developing new solutions, scaling up production or ensuring regulatory compliance. As a neutral partner, we protect your innovation through non-disclosure agreements, and you retain all intellectual property rights as set out in our agreement.

Added Value Through Our Network

Behind every project is RISE’s collective expertise – from materials science, process technology and regulations to advanced analytical infrastructure. Our interdisciplinary research connects battery recycling to other circular flows and we collaborate closely with industry, academia and public authorities.

Through our broad network and expertise, we provide practical support across several critical areas to enable sustainable and scalable battery recycling.

Purpose

You will be able to learn more about the possibilities and limitations of communicating LCA results, how LCA can be used in different contexts, what to consider when critically reviewing and communicating results, and what to consider when planning LCA projects. You will also have the opportunity to explore various methodological issues within LCA in depth, learn more about closely related methods and get an introduction to calculation tools and how these can support you in LCA projects.

RISE offers a flexible training concept that can be adapted to your needs, which can be given either in connection with our introductory training or stand-alone. The standard version of the in-depth part is two half-days with own work in between, which gives you the opportunity to deepen your understanding of LCA as a tool. The training combines lectures, discussions and practical exercises to optimise your learning.

Target group

The training is aimed at those who want a deeper understanding of life cycle assessment and its applications. You can benefit from the training both as an LCA practitioner and project manager/commissioner of an LCA.

Content

- Reading and interpreting an LCA

- Critical review

- Communication

- Planning an LCA project

- Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)

- Applications of LCA

- LCA and biodiversity

- Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)

- Related methods (e.g. LCC/social LCA)

- In-depth exploration of methodological choices

- Trendspotting in the LCA sphere

- Introduction or coaching in software/calculation tool

Company-specific training

We can also help tailor the training to suit your needs, for example towards a specific industry, in the form of coaching activities, or in combination with conducting a life cycle assessment, to show how the results can be used in for example product development or to develop a sustainability strategy. Want to know more about how RISE can help you?

Do you want to know more about our introductory training in LCA? Read more here: Introductory training in Life Cycle Assessment, LCA | RISE

Purpose and goals

This project aims at developing and optimising methods that contribute to an increased usage of BSG as a food ingredient. Specific goals include to:

• develop a process for handling BSG in the entire chain from brewery to final product
• improve the performance of BSG as food ingredient by optimisation of the processing (milling, fermentation, enzyme treatment)
• establish the correlation between processing and the overall quality of the final products
• produce in pilot-scale, and evaluate, one bread and one breakfast cereal, containing at least 30 % BSG

Challenges

There are several challenges that need to be resolved since there are a few factors that limit the use of BSG in the food industry. The high moisture content (70–80%) presents problems with microbial growth. In addition, the high fiber content can have a detrimental effect on sensory and rheological properties.

Solution

BSG requires pre-treatment to make it suitable for use in food products. Several processes can be applied and this work includes three of these, i.e. milling, fermentation and enzymatic processing. They are used both as stand-alone methods and in combination. These processes have different effects on the properties of BSG, especially regarding taste, texture and nutritional quality. 

Effect

This project aims at developing and optimising methods that contribute to an increased usage of BSG as a food ingredient generating nutritional and economic benefits, thereby contributing to the circular economy of this readily available side-stream.

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course is to provide knowledge and tools for the systematic formulation and verification of ethical, environmental, and sustainability statements, so-called green claims, for businesses, services, and products.

Course content

• How organizations can gather data and facts to create verifiable sustainability statements.
• General principles, policies, strategies, and activities for generating quantitative or qualitative sustainability information.
• Systematic methodology according to the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) strategy, based on the ISO standard Environmental Management Systems - Quantitative Environmental Information - Guidance and Examples (ISO 14033:2019).

Included are examples from life cycle assessments (LCA), including different types of footprints, circular metrics and indicators, environmental technologies, management systems, and other sustainability performance evaluations. It also addresses frameworks like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).

By deepening the understanding of verifiable sustainability claims and their underlying data, the content becomes valuable both for marketing and for internal and external reporting.

Scope

• Introductory course – 2 full days
• Course with own case study – 1 to 3 months

Target Audience

The course is aimed at those who work with or want to learn how to formulate marketing messages and decision-making materials for internal and external stakeholders.

This feasibility study successfully showed that the concept is highly promising. A bio-based disposable product can significantly reduce environmental impact. The project established a strong interdisciplinary network and emphasized the importance of life cycle assessments in material and supplier choices. Prototypes were developed, regulations mapped, and a foundation laid for future innovation.

Challenges remain, but the possibility of using bio-based materials for invasive medical devices is groundbreaking. At RISE, we have extensive expertise and testing resources across key areas to support the transition to bio-based materials in disposable products—including LCA, biocompatibility evaluation, regulatory knowledge, and recycling potential assessment.