Result description
What it is: A set of inventories and methodologies to perform life-cycle assessment (LCA) and life-cycle costing (LCC) specifically tailored to printed electronics.
What it does: Provides reliable, standardised datasets and guidance to quantify environmental and economic impacts across PE supply chains.
Why it’s special: Addresses the current lack of PE-specific LCA datasets and enables standardised sustainability assessments for product, policy and procurement decisions.
Target: researchers, policy makers, product designers, procurement officers.
The toolkit contains printed electronics (PE)-specific process inventories, unit process data, typical device bills of materials, and LCC templates to enable consistent cradle-to-grave sustainability assessments. It includes guidance on data collection, uncertainty management, allocation rules for recycling, and examples for common PE devices. The toolkit is designed for researchers, consultants and industry to inform eco-design decisions and support compliance with regulatory frameworks. Exploitation: publication to research consortia, services to industry and contributions to standards.
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- To raise awareness and possibly influence policy
- Help in technical expertise
- Collaboration
Validation partners, standardisation bodies, dataset adopters.
- Public or private funding institutions
- EU and Member State Policy-makers
- Research and Technology Organisations
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
The toolkit integrates with common LCA software and can be extended with new process datasets as more production data becomes available; monetisation via consulting, training, and custom dataset creation.
Method and templates are transferable to other electronic device categories.
Enables evidence-based decision making to reduce lifecycle impacts.
- Europe
Result submitted to Horizon Results Platform by LOMARTOV SL
