2020 LCA Conference Hungary

Written on 01 December 2020.

We attended the XV. Hungarian LCA Conference in 2020 November. The conference has been organized online due to the pandemic, nevertheless more than 50 people were interested in knowing more about our project.

The LCA conference is the annual forum of Hungarian life cycle analysis professionals, where new research results and dissertations are presented regularly. The professional meeting took place on November 30, 2020. The central theme of the conference this year was sustainability and the circular economy. In one section we reported on the results of our IS-SusCon Erasmus + project so far.

A summary is published in the Hungarian Quality Journal (in Hungarian): download here.

The program was the following:

Morning session: Sustainability, Circular Economy and LCA

1. Prof. Kára Stita Tóthné, Chairman of the LCA Center: Conference opening
2. Prof. Dr Éva Pongrácz, Oulu University, Institute of Technology (Finland) Distribution of material flows (MFA) in the circular economy based on added value
3. Bálint Simon PHD, RWTH Aachen University (Germany): Life cycle and network analysis in the study of the circular economy
4. Flóra Dsouza, researcher, Sphera (Germany): Life Cycle Analysis in the practice of circular solutions
5. Viktória Mannheim PHD - Zsuzsanna Fehér, Miskolc University, FIEK Research Group Full life cycle model for plastic products, with a special emphasis to optimize the environmental impact during the production phase.
6. Balázs Sára, LCA expert Raise your watchful eyes to the standards! - News and auditing experiences from the field of LCA, EPD and carbon footprint
7. Benedek Kiss – Zsuzsa Szalay PHD BME Impact of climatic conditions on LCA and LCC based optimization of buildings
8. Balázs Sándor Gál - Renáta Bodnárné Sándor Bay-Logi, Miskolc Will the sustainability approach be maintained despite the pandemic? - Trends, problems and opportunities in the catering sector
9. Liang Zhiwei - MSc student SZIE LCA of kitchen waste in Xi’an city
10. László Gergely, MSc student, BME Building engineering system selection on a life cycle basis

Click here to access the original presentations in the morning session (in Hungarian).

Afternoon session: Presentation of the work done in the IS-SusCon project

• 11. Zsolt István, Miskolc University: Presentation of the IS-SusCon project Link to the presentation (Hungarian)
• 12. Renáta Bodnárné Sándor Bay-Logi, Miskolc: Presentation of survey results Link to the presentation (Hungarian)
• 13. Dr Anita Terjék, ÉMI Innovative solutions in architecture Link to the presentation (Hungarian)
• 14. Dr Anita Terjék, ÉMI Quiz questions about architecture that can be used during dissemination
• 15. Balázs Sára, LCA expert LCA basics Link to the presentation (Hungarian)
• 16. György Gröller, Óbuda University Environmental aspects of home lighting Link to the presentation (Hungarian)
• 17. Dr Zsuzsa Szalay BME WebApp for sustainable buildings Link to the presentation (Hungarian)