ABOUT THE PROJECT
LIFE-C Project
One of the highest priority EU goals is to protect the environment and fight against climate change. Within this framework, the environmental cost of any product, service, or activity must be assessed. Life-C project aims to prepare students and professionals across all activity sectors to become true agents of change, by providing them with knowledge and tools to address their future choices and decisions minimizing environmental impacts. The project will develop a specific class on Life Cycle Assessment, based on innovative teaching methodologies.
LUT University, together with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and other collaborators, has been developing the LCA-based handprint approach for several years. The concept of “handprint” assesses and communicates the positive impacts of a product or organization when it reduces the footprints of others, contrasting with the term “footprint” which refers only to negative impacts. Please find below a short animation, how companies should not only focus on reducing their own carbon footprint and investing in carbon offsetting, but on identifying the opportunities to create handprints too! Learn more about handprint on our website: https://www.handprint.fi/