Industry 4.0 Enhanced Digital Product Passports and Circular Economy Dataspaces for Sustainable Bio-Based Industries
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PROJECT INFO
OUR MOTIVATION
The digital and circular economy (CE) transition of bio-based industries is a critical objective for Europe’s climate ambitions and its economic competitiveness. Given the urgency of these demands, Europe’s bio-based industries need to leapfrog over past digital technologies and implementations, pioneering innovative solutions for creating bio-based products and services that are circular, as well as environmentally and socially sustainable. To realize these ambitions, the bi0SpaCE project will deliver a suite of technologies, services, guidance frameworks, and standards, combined into the open-access bi0S platform, for rapid deployment and scaling of (CE) solutions and services across bio-based industries and their value chains.
bi0SpaCE will advance the creation and implementation of Industry 4.0 enhanced Digital Product Passports (DPPs), linked to an International Dataspace (IDS) compliant CE dataspace, enabling the creation of dynamic and decentralized DPPs for secure and trustworthy sharing of CE and sustainability performance data of bio-based products across the value chain, as well as providing transparency of green and CE claims to consumers.
OBJECTIVES
Leapfrogging the Dual Digital and Green Transition Processes of European Bio-Based Industries and their Value Chains
bi0SpaCE project will address the urgent need for modernizing digital systems and decarbonizing bio-based industrial value chains to meet European climate ambitions. It aims to advance the digital and green capabilities of the European bio-based sector by enabling them to bypass current static DPP implementations. Through the adoption of emerging technologies, best practices, and standards, the project facilitates rapid and proactive experimentation, allowing bio-based industries to pioneer the development of cutting-edge digital and green solutions.
Mobilize the Deployment of I4.0 Technologies and DT Solutions for Realizing Circular Bio-Based Products and Industries
bi0SpaCE will address the pressing need of bio-based industries to enhance sustainability and circularity by providing methods and tools for creating and managing I4.0-compliant DTs for processes. These digital solutions, including AI-enhanced DTs and DPPs, offer promising avenues for achieving sustainability objectives.
Advance Digital Technologies for Tracking Resource Flows and Interoperable Exchange of Sustainability & Circularity Information in Bio-Based Value Chains
The digitization of bio-products and their life cycles is still isolated, and traceability is still in its infancy. For that reason, bi0SpaCE will provide methods and tools for the exchange of digital information of bioproducts, components and materials via a data space specialized in the bio-based industries (IDS and FAIR compliant), and provide data space services for easily findable and accessible tracking and tracing of products, components, and materials (e.g. through DPPs).
Promote Competitive and Sustainable Management of Natural Capital & Local Ecosystems in Bio-Based Industries
Assessing process industry sustainability requires extensive data sets to evaluate impacts across a product system’s lifecycle, enabling identification, quantification, and benchmarking. bi0SpaCE will leverage advanced digital technologies to apply environmental and circularity assessment tools like LCA and MFA, supporting methodological advances by contributing to initiatives such as the EU’s PEF and evolving circularity standards like ISO/FDIS 59020.
Innovate Digital Circular Economy Solutions for Creating Resilient and Inclusive Local Bioeconomies
bi0SpaCE project aims to enhance circularity for feedstock and energy, assessing value chain resilience to disruptions via ecological network analysis. It will develop tracking tools for comprehensive material and energy management, focusing on societal impacts in pilots, especially in rural settings, to boost social benefits and profit redistribution.
Harmonize I4.0, Sustainability, and CE Standards for Accelerating DPP Deployment for Bio-Based Products and Value Chains
The bi0SpaCE project will create the knowledge for building I4.0 enhanced DPPs for bio-based products, by systematically characterizing data requirements for creating DPPs from diverse biobased products and associated material and energy flows, from the pilots (incl., paperboard, biogas, bio-based energy flows, industrial process water, isoprene), and from interfacing with ongoing projects CIRPASS, ECOFACT, DPP4.0, DigInTrace, ELLIPSE funded by the Circular Bio-based Europe JU, and 1 sister project in this call. This knowledge will be implemented in delivering first-of-its-kind results.
PARTNERS
bi0SpaCE: A Global Team Advancing Industry 4.0 with Digital Product Passports for a Sustainable Future
It brings together a diverse consortium of experts from academia, research, industry, and startups across EU and associated countries, collaborating over a 36-month project period. It consists of 1 HEI, 4 RTOs, 1 SMEs, 1 industrial association and 2 large industries.
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