The REMEDY is one of the partners in EIC’s Engineered Living Materials portfolio’s “ELMs LCA Starter Kit” (ELM-LCAKit) project, which was selected for funding by the European Innovation Council within the BOOST initiative.
This project, emerging from the ELM Portfolio’s Environment & Sustainability Working Group, will help develop a shared early-stage Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) framework tailored to the unique challenges of Engineered Living Materials.
ELM-LCAKit is led by the PRISM-LT project in collaboration with Fungateria, NextSkins, and REMEDY EIC. Together they will develop early-stage LCA guidelines for ELMs, a common methodological framework, practical resources and templates to support sustainability assessment, and recommendations to strengthen comparability and future standardisation across the field.
As Engineered Living Materials move from visionary concepts towards real-world applications, sustainability must be considered from the very beginning.
This initiative will help the ELM community make informed design choices and build a stronger evidence base for future environmental impact assessments.