Fundamentals of Eco-Design

• Gain familiarity with environmental assessment concepts and tools
• Apply eco-design tools in practice (the 5 Rs framework, the Brezet wheel, and others)
• Identify eco-design improvement pathways that address environmental priorities while accounting for systemic constraints
• Model these pathways in an eco-design software platform (ASKOR)
• Recognise common eco-design pitfalls — improvements that appear beneficial but generate unintended consequences
• Draft an initial action plan based on the knowledge and tools acquired

Day 1 — Afternoon

• Overview of environmental assessment tools (LCA, simplified LCA approaches, and others)
• Introduction to eco-design tools — the 5 Rs, the Brezet wheel, Ecolizer, and others — with hands-on application
• Presentation of LCA results for a sample product, generated using the ASKOR platform

Day 2 — Morning

• Workshop: identifying eco-design improvement pathways for a product
• Modelling these pathways in ASKOR

Day 2 — Afternoon

• Interpreting results and prioritising improvement pathways
• Identifying common eco-design pitfalls
• Introduction to eco-design project management
• Introduction to environmental communication
• Translating the session's key concepts into a draft action plan

• Exposés didactiques
• Travaux en sous-groupes
• Exercices pratiques à partir d’études de cas
• Livret de formation

Prerequisites

• At the start and end of the training: knowledge validation test
• During the training: ongoing assessment of learning progress through case studies, quizzes, practical exercises, and similar activities
• Individual certificate of completion awarded upon conclusion of the training

Companies may draw on the services of a skills development operator (OPCO — opérateur de compétences) to fund this training. To identify your OPCO, visit the France Compétences website: Which OPCO applies to me?