CE-RISE | Circular Economy Resource Information System

EU-funded project advancing circular economy in electronics through shared data, secure systems, and open sustainability tools

Why CE-RISE?

Growing demand and limited supply of critical raw materials (CRMs) challenge technological changes for an equitable, zero-emission, and digitalised Europe. To overcome this, the European Commission aims to reduce losses and increase reuse of secondary raw materials (SRMs), which requires better product-level information. Digital Product Passports (DPPs) offer a key opportunity to make such information available and usable, supporting more effective circular strategies and sustainability assessments.

What are our goals?

Build a Resource Information System that unifies product data with circularity and impact metrics
Integrate DPP attributes into circular strategies and socio-economic and environmental (SEE) assessments
Enable privacy preserving, role appropriate information sharing across value chains
Provide open-access software to support sustainable, circular products

The project consists of the following stages:

Defining a set of criteria (RE-criteria) to evaluate the extent to which products and embedded components can be reused, repaired, refurbished and/or recycled.

Incorporating information, such as material composition of products, into the Digital Product Passport (DPP) to enable traceability of materials in the supply chain.

Integrating DPP with information on socio-economic and environmental (SEE) impacts of products and RE processes.

Enabling confidential and anonymised information sharing among actors across value chains.

Providing a software application to disseminate information on the assessment of RE-criteria, product environmental footprint (PEF) and SEE impacts of products to all stakeholders including consumers and policymakers.

Ultimately, CE-RISE will foster a dynamic ecosystem geared toward prolonging the use of materials and stimulating circular business models to reduce waste generation.