INRAE Transfert Eco-Design
The Metys Service dedicated to environmental assessment and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
INRAE Support Unit
UMR ITAP, the Elsa cluster and the Elsa-Pact chair
UMR ITAP, Technologies and Methods for Tomorrow’s Farming, is a joint research unit of INRAE and Institut Agro Montpellier. ITAP’s research focuses on studying and improving Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods.
ITAP is one of the founding members of the Elsa (Environmental and Sustainability Lifecycle Assessment) research group, dedicated to LCA and circular economy applied to agro-bio-processes. Elsa brings together about thirty researchers, teachers and students from several LCA laboratories and higher education institutions (CIRAD, IMT Mines Alès, INRAE, and the Institut Agro de Montpellier) to stimulate research and transfer in the field of eco-technologies.
Together with the members of Elsa, ITAP coordinates the Elsa-Pact corporate chair, based on a partnership between research, training and business, with the aim of promoting and disseminating “life cycle” thinking among public and private decision-makers, and supporting the development of sustainable industries that make the most of local resources.
The METYS Service
INRAE Transfert Eco-Design
UMR ITAP and INRAE Transfert, in conjunction with Elsa’s partners, have joined forces to create INRAE Transfert Éco-conception, Metys’ department dedicated to environmental assessment and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
Based on INRAE’s LCA research, expertise, resources and databases in the fields of agriculture, food and the environment, INRAE Transfert Écoconception offers a range of services for companies and researchers wishing to assess and improve the environmental performance of their products, services or projects:
- Identification and analysis of the key stages in environmental assessments
- Eco-design of processes, products and services under development
- LCA for Research: deliverables in the form of scientific publications
- Decision support, procurement sourcing
- Benchmark to compare processes, technologies and scenarios
- Carbon footprint and water footprint
- Low Carbon Label
At your service and attentive to your needs, the Metys teams, made up of technicians, engineers and PhDs specialized in agronomy, processes and the environment, advise and support you at every stage of your project.
