aLIFEca MOOC
- free online course on LCA in the automotive industry
The Faculty of Transport and Aeronautical Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology, together with five foreign partners as part of the project "aLIFEca: Virtual Open Course of Automotive Life Cycle Assessment', from the Erasmus+ programme, developed the aLIFEca MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) online course for sustainable automotive management and green mobility. It is designed for students and all interested parties who want to learn about environmental life cycle assessment of vehicles. The aLIFEca MOOC course is available on the platform https://learn.skills-framework.eu/, which is also referred to by the Automotive Skills Alliance (https://automotive-skills-alliance.eu/training-and-education/). Anyone can register for the course free of charge and learn about automotive life cycle assessment issues. The course is certified. Upon completion, participants can apply for a certificate or a so-called digital badge.
If you are interested in issues of life cycle analysis in transport, see the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyvAEfVzBNA.
Please also visit the website https://project-alifeca.eu/ for information about the project and links to Facebook and LinkedIn. If you are interested in the topic of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) environmental method in the automotive industry, we invite you to take advantage of the free aLIFEca MOOC course with practical examples on sustainable approaches in the automotive industry. The aLIFEca MOOC course is included in the EU database of training and education courses. The results are made available to the Automotive Skills Association project partners as the Automotive Skills Pact and to the public.
The aLIFEca MOOC course was developed by a consortium of 6 partners:
VSB - Technical University of Ostrava,
Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Transport and Aeronautical Engineering,
Newton University, a.s,
Scoveco, s.r.o.,
Spin 360, SRL,
University of Zilina
in cooperation with associated partners:
ACEA - European Automobile Manufacturers' Association
and ASA - Automotive Skills Association.
The project 'aLIFEca: Virtual Open Course of Automotive Life Cycle Assessment' was implemented from 2021 to 2023 under the Erasmus+ Programme, call 2021, round 1, key action KA2, Action type KA220-HED- Cooperation partnerships in higher education.
