Circular Economy including Digital Product Passport
This fellowship contributes to the standardisation of Digital Product Passport (DPP) data requirements for textile products, with a specific focus on enabling secondary market transactions (resale, rental, repair). The core objective is to ensure that DPP standards include the data fields and interoperability requirements necessary for verified resale to function at scale across European marketplaces. It contributes to the work of:
CEN/CENELEC JTC 24 - Digitalization of Products and Services
CEN/TC 248 - Textiles and Textile Products
CEN/TC 461 - Quality of data and information
First, interoperability: a standardised scope vocabulary for secondary market DPP access eliminates bilateral integration between every brand and every resale actor, reducing technical barriers for SMEs operating resale platforms or branded resale programmes. Without standardisation, each brand-intermediary relationship requires custom credential negotiation, a cost that disproportionately burdens smaller actors.
Second, market access: European SMEs building DPP-enabled resale infrastructure gain a standardised integration surface rather than navigating fragmented brand-by-brand requirements, enabling cross-border operation across the single market.
Third, circular economy impact: DPPs that carry verified resale event records across the product lifetime support the ESPR objective of extending product use through resale. Authentication at the point of resale (the DPP attribute most valued by 70% of secondary market buyers per BCG 2025) reduces counterfeiting and builds consumer trust in secondhand markets, directly supporting EU circular economy targets for textiles.
Value of Research
Societal, Economic or Technological Impacts
This fellowship contributes to the standardisation of Digital Product Passport (DPP) data requirements for textile products, with a specific focus on enabling secondary market transactions (resale, rental, repair). The core objective is to ensure that DPP standards include the data fields and interoperability requirements necessary for verified resale to function at scale across European marketplaces. It contributes to the work of:
CEN/CENELEC JTC 24 - Digitalization of Products and Services
CEN/TC 248 - Textiles and Textile Products
CEN/TC 461 - Quality of data and information
First, interoperability: a standardised scope vocabulary for secondary market DPP access eliminates bilateral integration between every brand and every resale actor, reducing technical barriers for SMEs operating resale platforms or branded resale programmes. Without standardisation, each brand-intermediary relationship requires custom credential negotiation, a cost that disproportionately burdens smaller actors.
Second, market access: European SMEs building DPP-enabled resale infrastructure gain a standardised integration surface rather than navigating fragmented brand-by-brand requirements, enabling cross-border operation across the single market.
Third, circular economy impact: DPPs that carry verified resale event records across the product lifetime support the ESPR objective of extending product use through resale. Authentication at the point of resale (the DPP attribute most valued by 70% of secondary market buyers per BCG 2025) reduces counterfeiting and builds consumer trust in secondhand markets, directly supporting EU circular economy targets for textiles.
