About the project

The circular economy aims to maintain and retain the embedded value of products by creating continuous closed loops of materials and by phasing out waste. Today, a lack of support for the sharing of data in a secure, quality-assured, and automated way is one of the main obstacles that industry actors point to when creating new circular value networks. Together with using different terminologies and not having explicit definitions of the concepts that appear in data, this makes it very difficult to create new ecosystems of actors in Europe today. The ONTO-DESIDE project will address the core challenges of making decentralised data and information understandable and usable for humans as well as machines. The project will leverage open standards for semantic-data interoperability in establishing a shared vocabulary (ontology network) for data documentation, as well as a decentralised digital platform (i.e. Open Circularity Platform) that enables collaboration in a secure and privacy-preserving manner.
The project addresses a number of open research problems, including the development of ontologies that need to model a wide range of different materials and products, not only providing vertical interoperability but also horizontal interoperability, for cross-industry value networks. As well as transdisciplinary research on methods to find, analyse and assess new circular value-chain configurations opened up by considering resource, information, value and energy flows as an integral part of the same complex system. Three industry use cases, from radically different industry domains, act as drivers for the research and development activities, as well as test beds and demonstrators for the cross-industry applicability of the results. The developed solutions will allow for automation of planning, management, and execution of circular value networks, at a European scale, and beyond. The project thereby supports acceleration of the digital and green transitions, automating the discovery and formation of new collaborations in the circular economy.

The project targets four core project outcomes:

  • A shared vocabulary in the form of a network of ontologies.
  • An open circularity platform, i.e. a secure and privacy-preserving decentralised data-sharing platform.
  • Methods to find, analyse and assess the new circular value-chain configurations.
  • Validation – demonstrating and quantifying the potential for increased retainment of value.
You can find more information on the ONTO-DESIDE website

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