Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TRICK (PRODUCT DATA TRACEABILITY FROM CRADLE TO CRADLE BY BLOCKCHAINS INTEROPERABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY SERVICE MARKETPLACE)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2021-05-01 do 2022-10-31
In EU a garment is worn an average of 3 times in its life, with €400 Bln lost a year discarding clothes which can still be worn and 92 Mln tons of waste, 87% of clothes ending up in landfills. But due to growing awareness on ethical and environmental impacts, 66% of consumers are ready to pay more for sustainable products. TRICK will provide a complete, SME affordable and standardised platform to support the adoption of sustainable and circular approaches: it will enable enterprises to collect product data and to access to the necessary services on a dedicated marketplace, open to third party solutions. TRICK demo will be run in 2 highly complex and polluting domains: textile-clothing as main pilot and perishable food for replication. EC estimates that up to 10% of the 88 million tons of food waste generated annually in the EU are linked to date marking, with associated costs estimated at €143 billion. Secured traceability will rely on the data needed for the preferential certification of origin (PCO), used for duty calculation. It will be certified by Customs as member of the consortium, representing anti fraud public forces. The data extracted by the fiscal documents for the PCO will be integrated with the bill of materials, saved in the Blockchains (BC) per each lot of production to grant traceability continuity, and with the additional ones to enable the six services provided by TRICK: traceability, circular assessment, PEF, health and social assessment, A.I. for anti counterfeting. BC will secure information through the whole process, ending to consumers for informed purchasing. Data confidentiality and privacy will be granted by the exploitation of Blockchains smart contracts while the adoption of different technologies will be solved by the development of Blockchain interoperability connectors between the two BC providers. End users will cover the whole TC value chain, from raw materials to recycling.
The activities of the project are based on 5 specific objectives:
• OBJ1: Roadmap for the implementation of traceability and transparency into circular industries.
• OBJ2: Service standardization, data collection and sharing for traceability and transparency.
• OBJ3: Data collection for traceability framework and interoperability of different Blockchain solutions.
• OBJ4: B2B marketplace to enable 3rd parties to provide certified solutions for traceability and transparency.
• OBJ5: To demonstrate the universality of TRICK solution to EU companies aimed at achieving traceability and transparency for economic, environmental, climate and social added-value circular production systems.
The activities of the project are based on 5 specific objectives:
• OBJ1: Roadmap for the implementation of traceability and transparency into circular industries.
• OBJ2: Service standardization, data collection and sharing for traceability and transparency.
• OBJ3: Data collection for traceability framework and interoperability of different Blockchain solutions.
• OBJ4: B2B marketplace to enable 3rd parties to provide certified solutions for traceability and transparency.
• OBJ5: To demonstrate the universality of TRICK solution to EU companies aimed at achieving traceability and transparency for economic, environmental, climate and social added-value circular production systems.
The first period M1-M18 was dedicated to:
• WP1 - Use case requirements and platform design, which was concluded at M9 with the submission of all deliverables to reach obj.1 and milestone M1 – Trick scope, was successfully reached. This WP provided also the first contributions to EC policies by the publication of TRICK policy briefs.
• WP2 - Development of Trick platform, which delivered the TRICK platform architecture (D2.1) and the semantic model and domain-specific ontologies implementation (D2,2).
• WP3 - Blockchain design and implementation,
• WP4 - B2B marketplace development and service implementation started at M13 with only one task, dedicated to development of the vision of TRICK B2B multiservice marketplace. Its delivery was moved to M17 in amendment 1 because of its relationship with the activities of WP2 and WP3. The development of the common TRICK business service functionality is ongoing, at a good stage and will be delivered at M24 by D4.2. This WP will also carry implement the six services provided by TRICK.
• WP5 - Demonstration and pilot implementation is still at its early stage, since the demonstrations will start in the second periodic report. The only preliminary activity of this WP has been the validation plan definition (KPI)
• WP6 - Business model and collaboration management mainly relies on the outcomes of WP2, WP3, WP4 for the IPR management and exploitation and on WP5 for the results collection and is at an early stage too. The industrial External Advisory Board (EAB) for sustainable and future-proof business has been formed and started its periodic meeting and the definition of exploitable results and IPR provided its first report by M17.
• WP7 - Communication and dissemination has started all its tasks: project digital identity and online presence, market analysis and implementation, dissemination and communication plan and implementation, standardization and public and civil society involvement for policy contribution to circular economy approach and exchange with other projects have been successfully started and submitted the related deliverables. With the progressive availability of the demonstrators and the results from the pilots, the activity of this WP will move towards dissemination and support to the commercial exploitation of the results of TRICK.
• WP8 - Project management.
• WP1 - Use case requirements and platform design, which was concluded at M9 with the submission of all deliverables to reach obj.1 and milestone M1 – Trick scope, was successfully reached. This WP provided also the first contributions to EC policies by the publication of TRICK policy briefs.
• WP2 - Development of Trick platform, which delivered the TRICK platform architecture (D2.1) and the semantic model and domain-specific ontologies implementation (D2,2).
• WP3 - Blockchain design and implementation,
• WP4 - B2B marketplace development and service implementation started at M13 with only one task, dedicated to development of the vision of TRICK B2B multiservice marketplace. Its delivery was moved to M17 in amendment 1 because of its relationship with the activities of WP2 and WP3. The development of the common TRICK business service functionality is ongoing, at a good stage and will be delivered at M24 by D4.2. This WP will also carry implement the six services provided by TRICK.
• WP5 - Demonstration and pilot implementation is still at its early stage, since the demonstrations will start in the second periodic report. The only preliminary activity of this WP has been the validation plan definition (KPI)
• WP6 - Business model and collaboration management mainly relies on the outcomes of WP2, WP3, WP4 for the IPR management and exploitation and on WP5 for the results collection and is at an early stage too. The industrial External Advisory Board (EAB) for sustainable and future-proof business has been formed and started its periodic meeting and the definition of exploitable results and IPR provided its first report by M17.
• WP7 - Communication and dissemination has started all its tasks: project digital identity and online presence, market analysis and implementation, dissemination and communication plan and implementation, standardization and public and civil society involvement for policy contribution to circular economy approach and exchange with other projects have been successfully started and submitted the related deliverables. With the progressive availability of the demonstrators and the results from the pilots, the activity of this WP will move towards dissemination and support to the commercial exploitation of the results of TRICK.
• WP8 - Project management.
Then, in this period the activity of the project has been focussed to the effort to set and implement the procedure to grant a constant check of the correspondence of the original expected impact with the current scenario. The project has put in place an action at three levels.
The first one is object of the report exploring the analysed market opportunities provided by D7.2 and D7.3. At present the initial assumptions of the proposal are confirmed by the results of this activity as well as the expected impacts.
The second one is the check of the alignment with the evolution of the public policies in the field of sustainability and circularity related to textile and clothing products. One of the most promising results of is the convergence of the project with the implementation of the Digital Product Passport (DPP), an key enabler of the EU’s Sustainable Product Initiative (SPI). The TRICK platform can potentially become the enabler for the implementation of the DPP and its data model, as described in D2.2 submitted at M17, can manage the information requested by the DPP. To implement this purpose, the collaboration with CIRPASS project, funded under the HORIZON EUROPE and the participation to the Co-creation of the Textile Transition Pathway (TTP) led by the EC’s DG GROW. On their basis, a constant process of alignment of TRICK has been set up and the project is showing an increasing positive potential impact. All the six services which TRICK will support demonstrated their alignment with the needs of the market and of the public policies, as demonstrated by their alignment with the expected contents by the DPP.
On the third side, the project has already started to highlight the missing technologies for collecting the data needed to implement the 6 services provided by the project. The activities carried out since now have highlighted the need to support the industrial end users to collect the necessary data directly from the production process. To reach this goal, the coordinator of TRICK has entered the AIOTI - Alliance for IoT and Edge Computing Innovation in Brussels, to get involved in the new technologies supporting the data collection and, in parallel, providing an innovative test bed for them.
At present, it can be concluded that the initial expected positive impacts of the project have been confirmed and are showing a potential increase, due to the pandemic and the evolution of international scenarios.
The first one is object of the report exploring the analysed market opportunities provided by D7.2 and D7.3. At present the initial assumptions of the proposal are confirmed by the results of this activity as well as the expected impacts.
The second one is the check of the alignment with the evolution of the public policies in the field of sustainability and circularity related to textile and clothing products. One of the most promising results of is the convergence of the project with the implementation of the Digital Product Passport (DPP), an key enabler of the EU’s Sustainable Product Initiative (SPI). The TRICK platform can potentially become the enabler for the implementation of the DPP and its data model, as described in D2.2 submitted at M17, can manage the information requested by the DPP. To implement this purpose, the collaboration with CIRPASS project, funded under the HORIZON EUROPE and the participation to the Co-creation of the Textile Transition Pathway (TTP) led by the EC’s DG GROW. On their basis, a constant process of alignment of TRICK has been set up and the project is showing an increasing positive potential impact. All the six services which TRICK will support demonstrated their alignment with the needs of the market and of the public policies, as demonstrated by their alignment with the expected contents by the DPP.
On the third side, the project has already started to highlight the missing technologies for collecting the data needed to implement the 6 services provided by the project. The activities carried out since now have highlighted the need to support the industrial end users to collect the necessary data directly from the production process. To reach this goal, the coordinator of TRICK has entered the AIOTI - Alliance for IoT and Edge Computing Innovation in Brussels, to get involved in the new technologies supporting the data collection and, in parallel, providing an innovative test bed for them.
At present, it can be concluded that the initial expected positive impacts of the project have been confirmed and are showing a potential increase, due to the pandemic and the evolution of international scenarios.