Brightcon 2026, hackathon and courses

Context
At Brightcon 2025, Départ de Sentier highlighted three fundamental life cycle assessment (LCA) data-related challenges (findability, maintenance, and flexibility) and decided to focus on three solutions: vocabulary, models, and data [1]. Although the community recognizes the need for FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) principles in LCA data, the landscape...

Switzerland's environmental agency BAFU published an "ecoinvent alike" open LCA Database in December 2025. It is planned to have a yearly regular update of the database. It has a focus on Switzerland but includes “RoE”, “RER”, “RoW” and “GLO” datasets as well. So far the official versions are published in ecospold1 and OpenLCA's zolca format. The OpenLCA version includes characterisation...