Kickstart your Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) career with us!

Our 2,5-months program is designed to kick-start your career as an LCA professional. Join our talent pool, find a company and enrol in our program to strengthen your profile as an environmental professional. Demand for Life Cycle Assessment is growing and companies have a higher demand for Environmental LCA talent. This internship is your way to be part of that change.

Application process

  1. Apply to talent pool

  2. Find a company

  3. Learn to do LCA

  4. Complete your first LCA

  5. Possibility to get hired

You can apply if:

  • you are motivated to find a company to intern at

  • you want to change the world like us!

  • you have studied 3+ years of business, technology, environmental sciences or any other academic discipline

  • you understand and can analyse data

  • your English is on a professional level

  • you can commit 6h/day during the training and a minimum of 20h/week during your project

  • you are located in Europe or North America

Visit our FAQ page to read the most frequently asked questions and the answers to them!

Testimonials

  • "A good training to for learning the basics of making LCAs"

    Pieter Vijn - Nijhuis Industries

  • "Being a part of the hands-on LCA Training Program helped me develop strong skills in analyzing and leveraging data to create effective LCAs for sustainability initiatives."

    Karam Moussa

  • "For a few months I was reading about LCAs, trying to understand the standards, tools and concept. The 2 weeks of the course provided a great insight on the LCA process, much more that I could've done in a year of own research. I'm eager to start the hands-on project!"

    Krista Huttu - iLOQ

  • “I had a fantastic experience working with the Environmental Impacts Academy. Their team was incredibly supportive in training, enabling me to successfully complete a screening life cycle analysis. Highly recommended!”

    Jenna Browne - Carbon Forest Products Limited

  • Andreea Ghiocel - The CSR Agency

    "My experience with the LCA training provided by the was exceptional as it equipped me with a solid understanding of LCA."

    Andreea Ghiocel - The CSR Agency

  • "A great way to kickstart your career as an LCA specialist, providing a solid foundational understanding of the topic."

    Minni Tynkkynen

  • "Intense learning and a fantastic opportunity to gain new skills, even without prior experience; the program is accessible to everyone and highly suitable for those interested in the field."

    Eveliina Araja

  • Zien Hussein

    "The weekly sessions with experts were invaluable, elevating my work and LCA knowledge. I highly recommend it to professionals and businesses pursuing sustainability."

    Zien Hussein

  • "At first, I had doubts about the two-week training period, but it pleasantly surprised me. It provided ample time for me to grasp and fully comprehend the content."

    Kwame Agyemang

  • "I really liked the collaborative aspect of the program. Besides gaining valuable insights from my own project, I also learned a lot from the other attendees."

    Isha Sen

  • Casey Guo

    "EIA paired me with my company, and I was absolutely thrilled. The project was fantastic, so I felt very fortunate to work with them and to learn LCA."

    Casey Guo

This is the Environmental LCA program

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    LCA training

    Our 2-week intensive full—time training includes Environmental LCA theory in the form of video lectures, live sessions and practical exercises by lecturers from Harvard, MIT and UVP.

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    Complete your first LCA project

    Build on theory by working for 2-months on real LCA projects for a company in Europe or US. By the end of the program, you have completed at least one real-life LCA.

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    Get support and build your network

    Collaborate with peers and more experienced professionals to deepen your knowledge. You will get access to the ever-growing EIA Alumni & Student network.

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    Acquire a practical skill

    We focus especially on practical learning and by the end of the program, you are a confident and capable beginning practitioner of LCA.

Meet the impacts team

  • Dr. Gregory Norris

    Dr. Gregory Norris

    Greg is our LCA expert, teaching at Harvard and MIT, caring about interns, the environment and helping corporations in becoming greener.

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  • Daniel Collado-Ruiz

    Daniel Collado-Ruiz

    Daniel is an eco-innovation professor, who loves to help students to grow and become the best environmental professionals.

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  • Tanja Holm

    Tanja Holm

    Our co-founder Tanja is a sales and marketing professional passionate about sustainability and enabling environmental education for students.

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  • Poul Lindqvist

    Poul Lindqvist

    Our co-founder and managing director Poul is a business-oriented finance leader with a green heart, who loves to learn more about LCA.

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What is Life Cycle Assessment?

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provide means for understanding your products environmental impacts through the products entire life span. LCA helps companies identify improvements in a product’s life cycle and is a great tool when designing new products. Our interns use Earthtser, the fastest and most user-friendly software on the market, to calculate LCAs. Whether you already excel in LCA and need more hands on board, or you are taking your first steps. We can help you, either way. 

Frequently Asked Questions

  • The training is free of charge for you. The company that you will do your internship at will pay a fee for your training.

  • This internship is unpaid. You will receive a unique two-week training by the best LCA experts in the world for free as well as the unique opportunity to kickstart your LCA career by interning at one of European / North American leading manufacturing or consulting companies.

  • 82% of our interns have given this training a positive response. The majority answered a 9 or 10 when we asked them how likely they are to recommend this training to a like-minded friend.

  • YES! Be prepared though that the time commitment for this internship is: 6h/day during the first two weeks of training and a minimum of 20h/week once you start working on your projects in the company.

  • Yes, we offer both onsite and remote positions. The first two weeks (training) is fully remote, after you start working for your company. This part of the internship can be fully or partially remote or onsite, depending on the company's wishes.

  • The time commitment for this internship is: 6h/day during the first two weeks of training and a minimum of 20h/week once you start working on your projects in the company.

What our students have said…

“LCA was not my priority before this program, but attending this program has inspired me to work with LCA. It's a very vibrant and growing profession and industry with plenty of opportunities.”

— January 2022 Program attendee

“The overall experience was great. Working with Earthster was the biggest beneficial thing for me. Thanks to the training, I got my foot in the door in the environmental field.”

— January 2022 Program attendee

“I was sceptical at first about the 2 week training period, but it turned out that 2 weeks is enough. I was able to compass the content in that time.

— January 2022 Program attendee

“LCA is very helpful in every industry. Every company needs to know their footprint.“

— January 2022 Program attendee