On April 1, 2025, Sjoerd Rongen (Coordinator Centre of Excellence for Digital Product Passports – CoE-DPP) gave a presentation at the Hannover Messe on the importance of Digital Product Passports (DDPs) .
Sjoerd emphasized that DPPs give us the opportunity to accelerate sustainability, gain resilience in the value chain and can help us to boost the circular economy.
CoE-DPP is part of Centre of Excellence for Data Sharing and Cloud (CoE-DSC).
While the CoE-DSC strengthens the Dutch data sharing community, DSSC supports the development and interoperability of data spaces at European level. How do their roles complement each other, and what does their collaboration mean for organisations looking to scale?
The Dutch government has responded to concerns about European organisations’ dependence on foreign digital services, following US sanctions against an Italian internet provider. The response highlights the importance of digital sovereignty, reducing strategic dependencies and ensuring continuity of essential digital infrastructure. But what steps are being taken to protect European organisations?
On 3 November, CoE-DSC joined international data sharing leaders in Berlin for the IDSA Data Spaces Decade Forum, marking ten years of the International Data Spaces Association. Discussions focused on moving towards large-scale adoption of data spaces, with effective governance, sustainable business models and stronger European cooperation identified as key priorities.
Commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature (LVVN) and carried out in collaboration with NVWA, TNO explored how DPPs could create value within the agricultural domain, using a digitalised plant passport as their first concrete DPP use case. Their proof of concept shows how plants could become digitally traceable through the entire supply chain.
