ICCS and the Division of Circular Economy & Tracing of I-SENSE Group, launch the ‘Digital Product Passport & Tracing (DPP) Event series’, a series of workshops, events and seminars aiming to address all stakeholders in the ecosystem and focus on the Digital Product Passport as a core instrument for building a circular economy, itself a key enabler of climate neutrality.
With these events, ICCS aims to trace scientific initiatives and researchers involved in DPP and provide a platform that promotes cooperation and ideas exchange in the field, identify common challenges, strategies and novelties that can lead the transition for sector specific towards a common approach on DPPs.
A common approach to Digital Product Passports is critical to maximizing the effectiveness of this tool in promoting sustainability, transparency, and regulatory compliance across industries and regions. It ensures that all stakeholders—consumers, businesses, regulators, and recyclers—can efficiently and consistently interact with product data, advancing circular economy efforts on a global scale.
Ensuring interoperability across borders and industries, harmonized data formats and stadands, efficiency in recycling and circular economy initiatives, public awareness and trust, regulatory compliance and monitoring processes, cost efficiency for industries, collaboration and innovation are crucial components of a common coordinated approach to DPPs.
The 1st DPP Workshop will be taking place online on Thursday, 14th of November, 10.00 – 13.00 CET. The 1st DPP Workshop under the theme ‘Digital Product Passport & Tracing: Projects Joining Forces’ will be featuring the European Project DigInTraCE.
Intro to DigInTraCE
Process industries are working to find solutions to achieve low emissions and promote circularity through waste reduction and secondary raw materials use. The EU-funded DigInTraCE project will use innovative tracking, sensing and sorting techniques to develop a transparent and interoperable decentralised traceability platform focusing on the pulp and paper and chemicals sectors. The project will also develop dynamically updated DPPschemes supporting certification, quality validation, AI-based decision-making mechanisms for process and life cycle optimisation, and up-cycling, reuse and upgrade technologies for improved secondary raw materials use. DigInTraCE will concentrate on composite wood and furniture, wood and pulp and paper, plastic parts from ICT equipment, polymers and textiles.
