DPP4EU

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the European Commission through the DigiPass CSA project (Horizon Europe Grant Agreement No 101138510), the EuMINe COST Action CA22143 (European Materials Informatics Network), the CE-RISE project (Horizon Europe Grant Agreement No 101092281) and the CLC SDPP Projects which made this event possible

About DigiPass

DigiPass CSA is a Coordination and Support Action dedicated to strengthening the digital maturity of European materials and intermediate product communities, paving the way toward a Digital Materials & Product Passport. By harmonizing and synergizing existing materials data sources and digital infrastructures, DigiPass enables interoperable data exchange and standardized knowledge representation across all levels of material maturity. The project develops clear recommendations and practical routes toward digitalized, circular business models, supporting collaborative innovation-by-design across the full value chain. Its core outcome is a sustainable, federated platform that supports Digital Materials & Product Passports and accelerates the design, development, and production of advanced, safe, and sustainable materials—enhancing durability, repair, reuse, and recyclability. Ultimately, DigiPass impacts all materials development communities, fostering alignment, collaboration, and systemic innovation throughout the circular economy.

About EUMINE Cost Action

EuMINe (European Materials Informatics Network) is a COST Action structured to foster collaboration, innovation, and knowledge exchange across the European materials informatics community. EuMINe connects data, methods, and people to accelerate the digital transformation of materials science and engineering. By aligning advanced data-driven approaches with materials development needs, EuMINe directly supports the foundations required for Digital Product Passports, from interoperable data infrastructures to shared standards and best practices. In this context, the co-organised conference on Digital Product Passport serves as a key forum to bridge EuMINe’s scientific and methodological advances with industrial, regulatory, and innovation perspectives, reinforcing a common European vision for trustworthy, scalable, and sustainable digital product ecosystems.

About CE-RISE

CE-RISE (Circular Economy Resource Information System) is an EU-funded project advancing the circular economy in electronics by enabling shared, secure, and actionable product information across value chains. Addressing the growing pressure on critical raw materials, CE-RISE leverages Digital Product Passports (DPPs) as a cornerstone to improve product-level transparency, traceability, and sustainability assessment. The project develops a comprehensive Resource Information System that unifies product data with circularity, socio-economic, and environmental impact metrics, while ensuring privacy-preserving and role-appropriate data sharing. By integrating DPP attributes with criteria for reuse, repair, refurbishment, and recycling, and by providing open-access software tools, CE-RISE supports informed decision-making for industry, policymakers, and consumers. In connection with this co-organised conference on Digital Product Passport, CE-RISE contributes concrete methodologies, digital infrastructures, and use cases that translate DPP concepts into practical circular strategies and scalable business models for a more sustainable European electronics ecosystem.

CLC SDPP – Support to CLC Standardization of Digital Product Passport

The EU-funded project serves to support standardization work in connection with the identification/development/adaptation of IT standards for the Digital Product Passport, for the implementation of the new EU Ecodesign Regulation for Sustainable Products (ESPR):

Project description

A major focus of the CLC SDPP is the support of the CEN/CLC JTC24 and the support of the various standardization bodies dealing with the standardization of the DPP system and the product-specific DPP data.

This includes the analysis of existing CENELEC standards relevant to the EU DPP, with a focus on the implementation of the ESPR and the product-specific legal acts. This should include the interoperability of sector and system specific approaches and take into account the different aspects and uses of a DPP.

Project goals

The aim of this project is to establish itself as a contact point for the standardization committees. They are to compile key aspects from the standardization areas and develop answers with the involvement of the CLC-TCs. These should then harmonize the standardization work in connection with the identification, development and adaptation of IT standards so that the Digital Product Passport can be introduced taking into account the EU Ecodesign Regulation (ESPR) and the Battery Regulation.

The following aspects are particularly relevant in the individual areas:

Interoperability framework, principles, terminology: the interoperability of the DPP has an impact on the various supply chains at vertical, horizontal and even cross-domain level. This requires the validation of standards dealing with generic rules for sector-specific product categories (e.g. electronics and batteries) and the coordination and alignment of technical requirements for the system architecture (e.g. federated or distributed framework).

Processes, responsibilities and guidelines: Definition of responsibilities and rules for processes and process types (e.g. value stream and information flow), especially in relation to data and IT governance (i.e. IT service management, including auditability).

IT architecture (services and infrastructure): Ensuring access to information should be in line with the principle of granting access rights based on the role of actors in the product value chain (need-to-know principle), which requires standards for the management of identities, access and handling of data (i.e. data distribution, exchange, integration, processing and storage).

Data: The DPP must be based on a decentralized architecture. This means that the economic operator placing the product on the market (or a service provider contracted by it) is responsible for the information contained in the DPP. The DPP should enable cross-platform data exchange and processing of product information by multiple stakeholders and ensure product compliance.

Accessibility of information: The DPP must be implemented to include information linked to digital representations of physical products. The availability of digital data must meet the information requirements of different product aspects. To define a data set with qualitatively comparable information, the available product performance standards and minimum information requirements must be analyzed.

Identification and data carriers: The DPP is accessed via data carriers attached to the product (and possibly its packaging). Therefore, for a DPP framework to work, several important aspects need to be harmonized. One of these aspects is the durability of the data carrier and thus also the information stored on it, e.g. the URL with the DPP address. In addition, a unique assignment of a DPP to a product is required. In order to ensure technological neutrality, existing standards for unique identifiers and data carriers must be identified and analyzed with regard to their state of the art.

This conference and its associated initiatives have been supported by the European Commission through DigiPass CSA (Horizon Europe Grant Agreement No 101138510) , the CE-RISE project (Horizon Europe Grant Agreement No 101092281) , and the EuMINe COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology COST Action CA22143) , whose collaborative efforts contribute to advancing digital product passport frameworks and materials informatics across Europe.