Compare the three LCA training plans
All three plans run remotely in English, one-to-one or one-to-group, and are scheduled around the availability of the trainee and the instructor. The tables below list every module in the curriculum and show which plan covers it.
Every module in this section is the same across all three plans.
| Curriculum | LCA Professional $1,980 12 hours of training Price is per trainee Recommended for sustainability analysts, environmental professionals, independent consultants, and graduate-level researchers seeking a structured foundation in life cycle assessment methodology. Request a quotation → | LCA Expert $2,500 16 hours of training Price is per trainee Instructor demonstrationsDEISO Sansu ProDEISO Kensa ProShown during sessions onlyNo software access included Recommended for sustainability analysts, independent consultants, environmental engineers, researchers, and R&D professionals seeking advanced capability in designing, conducting, and interpreting life cycle assessment studies. Request a quotation → | LCA Expert+ $2,900 20 hours of training Price is per trainee Instructor demonstrationsDEISO Sansu ProDEISO Kensa ProShown during sessions onlyNo software access included Recommended for sustainability analysts, environmental engineers, researchers, R&D professionals, independent consultants, and consulting firms seeking advanced capability to design, evaluate, and lead life cycle assessment studies. Request a quotation → |
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| Format and access | 4 of 4 | 4 of 4 | 4 of 4 |
| The training is conducted in English so that international participants can follow it directly. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| The programme runs remotely over Zoom, on demand, for an individual or a group. DEISO proposes a schedule based on the mutual availability of the trainee or trainees and the instructor, and the schedule can be revised until both sides agree. Training begins once payment is processed. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| The programme gives in-depth coverage of LCA concepts, methods, and practice. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Participants may take a paid examination and receive a training certificate. Certificate fees apply per trainee. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Teaching approach | 4 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| The training follows a fast-paced structure that builds LCA proficiency quickly. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Theory is combined with hands-on exercises, which strengthens understanding. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| The Zero to Hero method builds mastery by starting from the basics and progressing to advanced practice. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Real-world LCA examples reinforce the theoretical material. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Works through complex case studies for deeper insight into applied LCA. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| LCA foundations | 4 of 6 | 6 of 6 | 6 of 6 |
| Provides an overview of the fundamental principles of LCA. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Breaks LCA into goal and scope definition, inventory analysis, impact assessment, and interpretation. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Covers approaches to defining and modelling product systems. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| A structured workflow for running an LCA study end to end. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Explores specialised and emerging LCA methods. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Discusses how LCA is applied across industries. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Goal, scope and system definition | 3 of 4 | 4 of 4 | 4 of 4 |
| Describes the functional aspects of a product or system in LCA terms. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Explains why the choice of functional unit determines the validity of a comparison. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Explains how to define the limits of an LCA study. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Explains the distinction between unit processes and system processes in LCA modelling. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Modelling and allocation | 3 of 9 | 5 of 9 | 9 of 9 |
| Covers the construction and interpretation of LCA models. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Covers the methodological approach to assessing environmental impacts under current system conditions. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Examines the wider environmental consequences of decisions beyond the immediate system. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Focuses on impact assessment at the midpoint category level. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Covers endpoint-level impact assessment and its interpretation. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Covers how to handle systems that produce more than one output. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Introduces the techniques used to allocate environmental burdens between co-products. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Explains how inputs and outputs are excluded when setting system boundaries. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Covers expanding system boundaries to account for additional functions. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Inventory analysis | 4 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| Covers data collection and processing for the life cycle inventory. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Methods for quantifying inputs and outputs across an LCA model. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Guides participants through LCI calculations at process level. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Breaks down inventory data collection and analysis into ordered steps. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Covers interpretation and validation of life cycle inventory data. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Data, databases and supply chain | 2 of 5 | 3 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| Focuses on handling, processing, and interpreting LCA data. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Discusses LCI data sources and how databases are structured. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Introduces the main databases used in LCA studies. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Practices for gathering reliable primary data from suppliers. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| A structured Excel template for organising supplier data collection. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Impact assessment | 8 of 11 | 11 of 11 | 11 of 11 |
| Covers the assignment of inventory flows to impact categories. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Explains how environmental impacts are quantified within each category. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Introduces normalisation for comparing results across impact categories. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Discusses weighting methods and the value judgements they carry. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Explores how impact indicators can be sorted and ranked for analysis. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Introduces the main methodologies used in impact assessment. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Explains the CML impact assessment methodology. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Covers the IMPACT 2002+ method for life cycle impact assessment. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Discusses the ReCiPe impact assessment methodologies. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Explores the IMPACT World+ impact assessment method. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Focuses on evaluating and interpreting LCIA outcomes. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Carbon and climate | 0 of 5 | 3 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| Methods for measuring and reducing carbon emissions using LCA. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Covers direct and indirect CO₂ emissions and how each is assessed. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Explains the three scopes of greenhouse gas emissions and what falls into each. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Focuses on quantifying climate change impact through global warming potential. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Covers the assessment of water use and its environmental impact. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Manual calculation methods | 0 of 4 | 1 of 4 | 4 of 4 |
| Step-by-step LCA calculations using a linear method. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| LCA calculations built on matrix algebra. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Demonstrates LCA calculations using Excel functions and formulas. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Compares manual LCA calculation with software-based modelling. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Advanced analysis | 0 of 4 | 0 of 4 | 4 of 4 |
| How to evaluate the effect of changing input parameters on LCA results. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Focuses on assessing and managing uncertainty in LCA studies. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Methods for comparing environmental trade-offs across alternatives. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Guides participants in modelling alternative scenarios to test how results respond. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Standards | 0 of 2 | 0 of 2 | 2 of 2 |
| Explains ISO 14040 and how its principles and framework apply in an LCA study. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Covers the ISO 14044 requirements for LCA methodology and reporting. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Software practice | 0 of 2 | 0 of 2 | 2 of 2 |
| Recommendations for selecting and operating LCA software correctly. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Covers how data availability shapes the choice of LCA software. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Instructor demonstrations (at no extra charge) | 0 of 2 | 2 of 2 | 2 of 2 |
| At no extra charge. During the training sessions, the instructor demonstrates DEISO Sansu Pro, a desktop app DEISO develops in-house, to show how life cycle processes are found and compared across databases, how LCIA methods and characterisation factors convert inventory flows into impact results, and how each dataset choice is recorded so it can be traced in review. Trainees do not receive access to the software. A teaching aid for the LCA modules, not software training. About DEISO Sansu Pro → | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| At no extra charge. During the training sessions, the instructor demonstrates DEISO Kensa Pro, a desktop app DEISO develops in-house, to show what ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 require of a finished LCA study, the errors critical reviewers find most often, and how to prepare a study for review and publication without them. Trainees do not receive access to the software. A teaching aid for the LCA modules, not software training. About DEISO Kensa Pro → | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Results, reporting and application | 1 of 7 | 2 of 7 | 7 of 7 |
| Covers practice for analysing and reporting LCA findings. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Guidance on presenting and explaining LCA findings to technical and non-technical audiences. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Methods for representing LCA results through graphs, charts, and diagrams. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Introduces the tools used to map and visualise LCA models. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Explores how LCA is used to compare the environmental profile of products. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Discusses the role of LCA in sustainable product design. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
| Introduces sustainability metrics and assessment techniques alongside LCA. | Professional | Expert | Expert+ |
How DEISO openLCA training compares with other openLCA providers
DEISO openLCA training is often compared with training from other openLCA providers. The table sets out how DEISO schedules, teaches, scopes and prices its training, side by side with what other openLCA providers typically offer.
| What you get | DEISOopenLCA training | Other openLCA providersTypical offer |
|---|---|---|
| Start and scheduling | 4 of 4 | 1 of 4 |
| Start on booking, with no waiting for a batch, even for one traineeTraining starts as soon as the booking is confirmed, even for a single trainee. There is no minimum group size to wait for. | Set course dates | |
| Training in any time zone, scheduled around your availability and the trainer’sSessions are scheduled around the trainee’s availability and the trainer’s, in any time zone, rather than at fixed course times. | Fixed public times (CET) | |
| Flexible reschedulingSessions can be rescheduled flexibly when plans change. | Varies | |
| Available all year, subject to trainer availabilityTraining runs all year round, at any time, subject to the expert trainers’ availability. | ||
| Trainers and teaching | 5 of 5 | 2 of 5 |
| All trainers are PhD-level LCA expertsEvery DEISO trainer is a PhD-level LCA expert. | Varies by trainer | |
| 2- or 3-hour sessions with breaks, no full daysRemote training runs in 2- or 3-hour sessions with breaks. There are no full-day sessions. | Full-day private sessions | |
| Interactive trainingSessions are interactive, with discussion, demonstrations and worked examples. | ||
| Step-by-step practical workThe practical part of every module is taught step by step in openLCA. | ||
| One-to-one or one-to-group in every planEvery plan can run one-to-one or one-to-group. | Priced by session type | |
| Scope in one plan | 5 of 5 | 0 of 5 |
| From zero knowledge to Master level, by the plan you chooseThe four plans take trainees from zero knowledge of openLCA up to Master level, depending on the plan chosen. | Separate courses | |
| Regionalisation, circularity and basic S-LCA in one planThe openLCA Master plan includes regionalised LCA, circularity modelling and basic social LCA in the same plan. | Separate advanced topics | |
| Full developer training with Python, in the openLCA Master planThe openLCA Master plan includes an introduction to scripting and Python scripting with a case study. | On request | |
| Case studies anyone can follow, whatever their technical backgroundCase studies are built so anyone can follow them, whatever their technical background. | Varies | |
| Support for 15+ industriesThe training supports participants working across 15+ industries. | Varies | |
| Databases and materials | 4 of 4 | 1 of 4 |
| Training on the DEISO LCA Database and the DEISO S-LCA Database, with case studies and their processes providedTraining uses the DEISO LCA Database and the DEISO S-LCA Database, both developed by the DEISO team. Trainees receive the case studies and their related processes only, not the full databases. | Not offered in this form | |
| No database licence needed for training, so database cost is zeroNo LCA or S-LCA database licence is needed for training. After training, trainees can buy any database they need, from DEISO or a third party. | Licence may be needed | |
| Professional, premium training materialsProfessional, premium training materials are provided with every plan. | ||
| Free 6-month access to My DEISO, the premium training platform with your materialsEvery trainee gets free access to My DEISO for 6 months, with the training materials shared there. | Not offered in this form | |
| Price and formats | 6 of 6 | 2 of 6 |
| Four plans with published pricesAll four plans show their price on this page before you request a quotation. | Custom training quoted | |
| Different prices for individual and group traineesEach plan has a price for individual trainees and a price for groups. | ||
| Group discount from 2 traineesGroups of 2 or more trainees receive a discounted price. | Varies | |
| Competitive price for the modules and topics coveredPlan prices are set competitively for the modules and topics each plan covers. | Varies | |
| Premium training online, and in Tokyo with premium facilitiesPremium training is available online, and in Tokyo, Japan, with premium facilities. | Varies | |
| 5-business-day on-site training in Tokyo and worldwideA 5-business-day on-site or off-site plan is available in Tokyo, Japan, and in any country worldwide, at higher prices with extra fees and surcharges. |
Three professional LCA training programmes
DEISO runs three professional life cycle assessment training programmes for sustainability professionals, engineers, researchers, and corporate teams building practical capability in LCA methodology and its applications. Each programme combines methodological foundations, practical analytical work, and applied industry cases aligned with internationally recognised LCA standards.
Flexible on-demand programmes run one-to-one or for small groups, with scheduling arranged around the trainee and the instructor.
How the three programmes build on each other
The pathway develops the ability to design, perform, interpret, and communicate Life Cycle Assessment studies step by step. Choose the tier that matches the depth of knowledge and practical capability you need.
Introduces the core methodological framework and the practical workflow of an LCA study.
Expands that foundation with deeper analytical methods, interpretation techniques, and advanced modelling concepts.
DEISO’s most complete LCA programme. Extends the Expert curriculum with advanced methodological topics, complex case studies, and wider analytical capability — built for consultants, environmental engineers, sustainability analysts, researchers, and organisations developing in-house LCA capability.






