About
This interactive workshop, "IT in Your Research – What Impacts?", aims to raise awareness among researchers about the environmental footprint of their research activities. Targeting group of 20–30 participants, the workshop combines theoretical foundations with hands on practice, encouraging attendees to analyze their own research projects or publications. The session begins with an introduction to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), covering manufacturing, distribution, use, and end of life phases. Participants explore current challenges in environmental data availability, especially for IT hardware, and discuss differences between self hosted and cloud based computing. Through guided group work and the use of dedicated tools — such as Green Algorithms, cloud impact estimators, and GenAI footprint tools — participants assess their research-related IT impacts and identify opportunities to reduce them.
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The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Taught by
- Manuel Cubero-Castan, Julia Paolini
- Year
- 2026
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Mathematics
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
- Who can watch
- CERN gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed