Digital Product Passport for circular textile value chains
Promotors: Raf Buyle, Beatriz Esteves
Main contact: Raf Buyle
Problem
The EU Digital Product Passport will require companies to provide structured information about materials, sustainability and lifecycle characteristics of products. In textile supply chains this information is currently distributed across many actors, making traceability and verification difficult.
Goal
Explore how a Digital Product Passport can be implemented for textile products. The thesis investigates which information should be included and how distributed data from actors such as fibre producers, manufacturers and recyclers can be connected. The student develops a conceptual architecture or prototype using technologies such as semantic data models, product identifiers and verifiable credentials, and analyses how TrustFlows can enable trusted data exchange between actors.