More than a product: the human and environmental story behind the DPP
How product data can reveal the environmental, social and human story behind every product.
Why participate? An interactive round table to exchange ideas, experiences and real-world challenges.
When? In July
What if every product could tell its own story?
The Digital Product Passport (DPP), introduced by the European Union within the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), is emerging as one of the key tools for creating more transparent, traceable and sustainable industrial ecosystems. Through digital identifiers such as QR codes or RFID technologies, products can carry structured information about their origin, composition, production processes, environmental impact, repairability and lifecycle.
But the real transformation goes beyond environmental data alone.
While the DPP is often associated with circularity, recycling and carbon footprint reduction, it also opens new perspectives on social sustainability and supply chain responsibility. Behind every product there are people, working conditions, sourcing decisions and production practices that are often invisible to consumers and even to other actors within the value chain.
In this sense, the DPP allows products to “speak” not only about materials and emissions, but also about ethics, accountability and human impact. Greater transparency can help companies strengthen ESG governance, improve supplier monitoring, support due diligence processes and promote more responsible and human-centred industrial models.
A product arriving in a factory is no longer just a component or a material: it becomes a carrier of information, relationships and history — from raw materials to manufacturing conditions, from reuse potential to the social impact generated along the supply chain.
This interactive webinar will explore how the Digital Product Passport can become a strategic tool for combining industrial innovation, traceability and social responsibility within future European manufacturing ecosystems.
Key Topics
- What is the Digital Product Passport (DPP) and why it matters
- The “story” behind products: traceability across the entire lifecycle
- Environmental and social sustainability through product data
- Transparency, ethics and accountability in global supply chains
- How the DPP supports ESG strategies and due diligence processes
- Technologies enabling the DPP (QR codes, IoT, Digital Twins, Data Spaces)
- Opportunities for Horizon Europe projects and future industrial ecosystems