Side events
Workshops on Wednesday, November 25
Come experience the service life cycle
beewö – 1:15 PM to 2:15 PM – Room C
Maximum of 20 participants
Workshop details
The product life cycle is a long-proven model, but it applies poorly to service systems. The digital service life cycle, on the other hand, focuses on a specific technical solution (website, application, software). However, studying a strategy and a service offering in light of such life cycles generates an incomplete vision because it is solely centered on a physical element or a digital element underlying the service. Furthermore, the described stages turn out to be far removed from the actual stages of a service's life and its more or less intangible and relational nature. Finally, such a description and analysis struggle to take into account the specific sizing for each client or user, that is, the ability to tailor the service in a highly personalized way to each of them according to their needs, constraints, and fears. This is why, based on experiences conducted in eco-design on the one hand and service design on the other, an eco-design approach and a dedicated life cycle were created several years ago and were the subject of a very first book in 2023: Green Service Design (author Florie Bugeaud-Remond, published by Pôle Ecoconception). This new life cycle offers an effective tool for describing all types of services, whether they are more service-oriented (tertiary) or more industrial in nature.
We therefore invite the participants of the MCV Congress to come and (re)discover and experience the lifecycle dedicated to service strategies and offerings. The workshop will allow them to discover its history, examples, and use this tool to collectively describe (in teams) the lifecycle of a typical service (a generic case that will be offered to the participants).
Operationalizing eco-socio-design: ASKOR as a tool at every stage of your R&D and across the entire value chain
EVEA – 1:15 PM to 1:45 PM – Room D
Maximum of 20 participants
Workshop details
EVEA will guide participants through 3 modules of the ASKOR tool (Questionnaire, Process, and Manufactured Product) to assess the environmental and social issues of a common thread case study.
From the qualitative questionnaire used to identify the key issues of a project to the evaluation of the eco-socio-designed product, including the detailed LCA of a process, participants will be guided along a common thread allowing them to discover (or even manipulate, if they wish) the various ASKOR modules.
The facilitator will guide participants to demonstrate the power of the various illustrated features, allowing participants to envision using ASKOR as an integrated and operational tool.
ACV : refaire, refaire, refaire… ou automatiser ?
Ailoop – 1:45 PM to 2:15 PM – Amphitheater B
Maximum of 20 participants
Workshop details
Vos données produit existent déjà, dans l’ERP, le data warehouse, les applicatifs métier ou des fichiers Excel. On attend d’elles des ACV, des choix d’écoconception et des déclarations environnementales : FDES, EPD, PEP et maintenant la DoPC. Entre les deux, il y a souvent des semaines de travail manuel, et toute une chaîne à mobiliser : fournisseurs, experts produit, expert ACV. Et tout recommence au produit suivant.
Cet atelier montre ce que nous construisons pour automatiser ce parcours.
Trois briques. Un moteur environnemental, qui récupère vos données et applique normes, modélisation ACV et règles métier. Des interfaces intuitives, que vos équipes utilisent en autonomie. Des résultats et des livrables générés directement par l’outil : comparaisons d’écoconception, rapports, FDES, EPD, PEP, DoPC, passeport numérique produit, exports.
Automatiser ne veut pas dire boîte noire.
Nos applications sont transparentes et vérifiables : chaque résultat se rattache à ses données, ses hypothèses et ses calculs.
Puis on passe à la preuve : démo live d’un configurateur FDES qui tourne déjà chez des industriels. Vous verrez comment une discipline qui exige une expertise pointue devient un geste quotidien pour des non-experts.
Et on répond à la question du titre.
L’expertise reste indispensable une fois, à la conception de l’outil. Ensuite, la production répétitive s’automatise.
Vous repartez en sachant ce qui peut l’être dans votre propre chaîne.
Public : industriels, bureaux d’études, experts ACV, vérificateurs, acteurs de la filière construction. Aucun prérequis technique.
Model faster, decide better, reduce your footprint
Pilario – 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM – Room C
Maximum of 20 participants
Workshop details
LCA is no longer a one-off exercise: entire product ranges must be assessed, design options compared, and responses provided to clients and tenders. The obstacle is no longer the method, but the time it takes to get a figure and the dependence on an expert for every new question. In this workshop, we show how to remove this bottleneck without compromising scientific robustness.
1) Live demo: the Pilario Eco Stage (30 min)
Rather than a rigid, black-box report, the Eco Stage allows you to model, test, and decide in real time by connecting two applications to the same model.
- Modeling in RangeLCA: building a product from components (raw material, packaging, transport), importing a bill of materials (BOM / Excel), then calculating the multi-criteria PEF impact (16 impact categories—biodiversity, water, soil, carbon...—and a weighted single score).
- Testing hypotheses in Lens: reuse this same model in the simplified interface to simulate eco-design scenarios live — adding recycled content, comparing options, instant impact delta.
- Make decisions on a scientific and traceable basis: arbitrate between multiple design options using a peer-reviewed model.
→ Interactive format: participants propose a scenario themselves to be tested live.
2) Customer Use Case (10 min)
The proof that it works with an early-adopter industrial partner. They tell us what changed when LCA stopped being a bottleneck: integration into an existing workflow, time saved, data quality and traceability.
3) Q&A
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
– Understand why eco-design cannot wait for annual LCA cycles, and what modular modeling changes.
– See real-world simulations of scenarios and multi-criteria decision support (PEF).
– Capture the contribution of a peer-reviewed model to the robustness of the results.
– Integrate sensitivity analyses directly into scenario definition for models closer to reality
Facilitate the collaboration of the battery value chain and prepare the Digital Product Passport with BATTERS
WeLOOP x Ailoop – 18:00 to 19:00 – D Hall
Maximum of 20 participants
Workshop details
Behind every battery lies a complex, fragmented, and dispersed value chain, which makes data collection, sharing, and traceability particularly difficult. Faced with the requirements of the European Battery Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, however, access to reliable and traceable primary data is becoming essential. Manufacturers, suppliers, recyclers, and commissioners must now strengthen their collaboration to meet regulatory expectations, demonstrate the environmental performance of their products, and prepare for the implementation of the Digital Product Passport (DPP).
During this workshop, discover BATTERS, the collaborative platform developed by WeLOOP and Ailoop with the support of the Hauts-de-France Region and the European Union through the Just Transition Fund. Designed to connect stakeholders across the battery value chain (all chemistries, all applications), it facilitates the collection and sharing of data necessary for conducting LCAs, calculating carbon footprints, assessing material criticality, and implementing eco-design approaches compliant with ISO 14040/14044 standards and regulatory requirements.
On the agenda:
· Decryption of regulatory obligations in the battery sector.
Live demonstration of the BATTERS platform.
· Discussion and Q&A session.
Target audience: manufacturers, engineering consultants, LCA experts, verifiers, battery industry stakeholders. No technical prerequisites.
Forward-looking modeling of industrial decarbonization strategy with the COMP'ACV tool
CEA – 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM – Lecture Hall B
Maximum 10 participants
Workshop details
This workshop aims to present and allow the use of the COMP’ACV tool, developed within the framework of the PEPR SPLEEN LCA. It aims to support industrialists in carrying out prospective modeling, in order to evaluate and compare different decarbonization strategies for their specific applications.
The workshop will take place online, using the tool provided to participants. To take part, each person must have a computer and a stable internet connection. It is recommended that participants have previously identified an industrial process they would like to study. Failing that, standard cases can be provided to facilitate getting started.
The workshop will be an opportunity for industrialists and researchers to test configurations that they would potentially wish to evolve in the future.
Application of advanced ACV methodologies to renewable energy in France
LCA-TASE project consortium under the coordination of Guido Sonnemann – 18:00 to 19:00 – Room C
Maximum of 20 participants
Workshop details
The Life Cycle Assessment of advanced energy technologies constitutes an essential lever for evaluating their real contribution to sustainability and energy sovereignty. In the context of an accelerated energy transition, it becomes crucial to have robust tools making it possible to anticipate and compare the environmental, economic, and systemic impacts of various technological options.
This workshop, part of the LCA-TASE (Life Cycle Assessment of Advanced Energy Systems Technologies) project of the PEPR TASE program, aims to explore recent advances in LCA methods applied to complex energy systems. In particular, it will address the challenges related to the integration of multi-scale, dynamic, and systemic dimensions in the evaluation of technologies such as renewable energies, storage, energy grids, and hybrid systems.
Special attention will be paid to the contribution of these approaches to defining sustainable transition pathways, while strengthening energy sovereignty at both the European and national levels. The workshop will foster interdisciplinary exchanges between researchers, engineers, and institutional stakeholders in order to consolidate decision-support tools for public policies and industrial strategies.
Workshops of Thursday, November 26
Backcasting: Découvrir des « futurs désirables », dialoguer et devenir vraiment robuste
Stéphane Morel – 12:45 PM-1:30 PM – Room C
Maximum of 20 participants
Workshop details
Einstein: «Madness is behaving the same way and expecting a different result.»
After 5 years of consulting, Stéphane Morel makes a point: looking for solutions based on one’s past carbon footprint doesn’t work. So he proposes this journey in which we change our perspective and look for solutions now based on a desirable future.»
A 4-step workshop:
a/ The group discovers one of the 5 future (more or less desirable) outcomes from economic literature (and not from the reports of the IPCC or ADEME), the goal: convince your boss, not increase eco-anxiety!
b/ In a pair, dialogue according to a predefined guide on the evolution between 2026 and 2050
c/ In solo mode, each person writes a «letter from the future» to their present self or to their COMEX, and proposes 3 key actions to take to be resilient until 2050.
d/ Sharing with the group (if not confidential!)
Will you leave with the idea that will put you on the right side of the shift?
Eco-anxiety mural: a driver of change
Gingko 21 – 12:45 PM to 1:30 PM – Room D
Maximum 10 participants
Workshop details
The workshop presents excerpts from a half-day-long ludopædagogical workshop. The goal is to introduce vocabulary and gain insight into the mechanisms of eco-anxiety, and to share tools for engaging in a transformation towards «active eco-awareness». The workshop is also aimed at both eco-anxious individuals and their managers or HR managers.
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