Circular Economy
Data sharing solutions for Circular Economy
Code:
REACH-2021-THEMEDRIVEN-CEA_1
Domain:
Circular Economy
Description of the DVC THEME
The traditional linear economy consists of a simple linear value chain— source, design, produce, consume, and dispose. Circular economy answers a simple fundamental question: How can we capture more of the value lost in a traditional linear system? Circular economy tries to find ways to create loops in that linear supply chain to retain that value.
The circular economy requires top-down management and change across a company, including re-evaluating product design, business models, and the supply chain. At the core of those changes, data sharing among the different actors is of paramount importance [1]. Being such a theme quite recent, to the best of our knowledge, at the current time there is not open data available, as acknowledged by a Horizon call [2] to build a Common European Green Deal data space.
However, when data becomes available, we will still have to deal with the following data sharing problems: 1) data privacy and confidentiality among actors that do not necessarily trust each other; 2) data interoperability; and 3) data availability.
In this context, this DVC Theme proposes concrete challenges that exemplify those problems associated with the actual implementation of the circular economy.
Sub-challenges composing this experiment:
This DVC THEME is composed by two main challenges:
