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- Life Cycle Assessment,

- environmental Impact Categories,

- processes,

- flows,

- functional unit,

- system boundary,

- ISO 14040/44,

- comparative LCA,

- product Environmental Footprint,

- management of LCA projects,

- historical background of LCA

Didactic setting – in class (face-to-face) and online teaching:

1,5 SWS / 3 ECTS (= 75 TU workload students) =

11 TU in class teaching (face-to-face)

1 TU exam (examination supervision by the lecturer)

63 TU distance learning (=workload students)

Presentational methods:

- Frontal ppt Presentation with participative excercies (e. g. quizzes and discussions)

- Presentation of an example of calculation of environmental impacts as well as normalization and weighting

- Presentation of an example of calculation allocation

Participatory methods:

- Creating of a functional unit for chosen examples

- Calculating the environmental impact (working with characterization factors)

- Calculation of the normalization and weighting of impact factors as well as allocation calculations

- Research about LCA Papers and studys -> comparison of those in a written essay

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In detail, the course is assessed through the following partial

performance evaluations:

1. Midterm exam 1 (15 points)

2. Midterm exam 2 (15 points)

3. Individual work (30 points)

4. Written final examination (= 40 points | min. 2 groups)

The overall assessment of all partial performances will be

communicated by the lecturer in Moodle. The maximum achievable score

for the overall assessment of all partial performances is 100 points.

The overall assessment will be carried out according to the following

grading scale and will be communicated by the course instructor in the

students´portal.

> 0 to 59 points => insufficient (5)

> from 60 points => sufficient (4)

> from 70 points => satisfactory (3)

> from 80 points => good (2)

> from 90 points => excellent (1)

- Eco Design als Kernanforderung- Drei Säulen der Nachhaltigkeit

- Einführung in ökologische Designprinzipien: Design flow charts, Design for Recycling, Design from Recycling

- Rechtliche und normative Grundlagen des Eco Designs- EU Kreislaufwirtschaftspaket, Ökodesign-Verordnung, Verpackungsverordnung, Abfallwirtschaftsgesetz, REACH Verordnung, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), International Organization for Standardization (ISO 14040/14044/14062), EMAS, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

- Life Cycle Assesment (LCA)- Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung von Verpackungen

- Eco Design Webtools- Praktische Anwendung der Designprinzipien

- Guidelines- Circular Packaging Design Guideline

- Packaging Design for Recycling

- Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung von Verpackungen

Case-Studies – Webtools, Re-Design einer Verpackung mit Hilfe der Guidelines

Blended Learning, bestehend aus Lehrendenvorträgen, Gastvortrag, Praxisbeispiele in Webtools, Durchführen einer Case-study, Präsentationen der Studierenden, schriftliche Ausarbeitung und schriftliche Prüfung

Immanente Leistungsüberprüfung

20 % Präsentation (Gruppe), 50 % schriftl. Bericht (Gruppe), 30 % schriftl. Prüfung (Alle)