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    Welcome to the 2023 edition of the Sustainability in Bioproducts Industry course!  

    There have been some last-minute changes to the course this year. Luana Dessbesell and Mark Hughes will now be teaching the course and, as a result, the contents and delivery may be slightly different from what you might have been expecting. The core learning outcome of the course will stay the same nevertheless, and we hope that you will find this fresh version of the course to be both inspiring and thought provoking! 

    Mark will be teaching mainly on campus, whilst Luana will join remotely for the first part of the course though will join in person in the later stages. So, we will have a combination of face-to-face and online teaching. In addition, we will have occasional guest lecturers. 

    A provisional schedule is posted below and further information about the course will follow. We hope not to have to make many changes to this, though the week-to-week content may differ a little bit. We will of course keep you closely informed of changes. 

    Please contact either of us if you have any questions. 

    Looking forward to meeting you all in a couple of weeks! 

    Luana and Mark           

    Provisional schedule: 

    Day 

    Date 

    Activity 

    Content 

    Teacher(s) 

    Tue 

    24.10 

    NO LECTURE 

     

     

    Thu 

    26.10 

    Lecture: Introduction 

    Kick-off and short intro to persons and working methods; getting to know each other and expectations; general concepts of sustainability. SDGs. Group working.  

    Luana (online) & Mark (in person) 

     

    Tue 

    31.10 

    Lecture: The Bioeconomy 

    Bioeconomy definitions; historical bioeconomy; the industrial bioeconomy; green, blue & yellow bioeconomies. The forest-based bioeconomy.  

    Mark (Room Y307a, Kandidaattikeskus)  

    Thu 

    2.11 

    Lecture: Industrial value chain and impacts  

    The value chain and industrial processes; concepts of transformations; unit processes; impacts etc.  

    Mark (L2, Vuorimiehentie 1)

    Tue 

    7.11 

    Lecture: Life Cycle Thinking  

    Life cycle thinking & assessment.  

    Intro to the LCA assignment.  

     

    Luana (online) 

    Zoom link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/62226106795

    Thu 

    9.11 

    Lecture: Social LCA 

     Social Life Cycle Assessment 

    Anubhuti Bhatnagar  

    Tue 

    14.11 

    Tutoring: LCA assignment   

    Tutoring session help for the LCA assignment  

    Maria Lívia Almeida at Vuorimiehentie 1, 225 (Kuitu)

    Thu 

    16.11 

    Lecture: The Circular Economy 

    Circular Economy. What does it mean for bioeconomy. Resource efficiency. 9R framework etc.  

    Mark 

    Tue 

    21.11 

    Self-study: Carbon handprint  

    Handprint reading materials and literature. No-class students own reading and research  

    Luana (online) 

    Thu 

    23.11 

    Lecture: Bioeconomy in practice 

    Examples from bioeconomy focused on construction and composites  

    Mark 

    Tue 

    28.11 

    Lecture: Biomaterials 

    Examples from bioeconomy focused on textiles and packaging  

    Luana (in person) 

    Thu 

    30.11 

    Lecture/group work: Summarizing 

    Wrap-up session 

    Luana and Mark