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).
Strong contributions and a substantive panel discussion characterised the CoE-DSC Strategy Meeting ‘Steering for cloud sovereignty’ on 18 June in The Hague, all grounded in concrete, action-oriented perspectives. Only by connecting public and private parties, and aligning supply and demand, we can achieve federated solutions that give organisations greater control and reduce digital dependence.
At the Gaia-X Tech-X & Hackathon #9 in Athens, CoE-DSC and TNO played a prominent role in advancing trusted data sharing and interoperability within the European digital ecosystem. A major highlight was the CoE-DSC/TNO team winning the first prize at the hackathon, achieved with an AI-powered solution that enhances trusted collaboration between digital services. The event also showcased important progress in trust and compliance frameworks that support the future development of interoperable European data spaces.
Considerable effort is being invested in interoperability, standards and infrastructure, but far less attention is being paid to demonstrating the real-world benefits these developments deliver. The Data SVP! team aims to change that.
NEN has launched the public consultation for Trusted Data Transaction (TDT) Part 3: a standard for interoperability requirements. This means that Dutch stakeholders can review the draft and submit comments
