DATAPIPE project

Extended data pipeline concept for the circular economy transition in The Netherlands

Research partners: TU Delft, TNO
Core research team
TU Delft: Boriana Rukanova, Jolien Ubacht, Yao-Hua Tan & Wirawan Agahari
TNO: Elmer Rietveld, Theodor Chirvasuta, Jelmer Lennartz, Wout Hofman, Kas Jansen
Project management support: Eva Kassotaki
Planned period: September 2022 - September 2024
Project summary: The DATAPIPE project aims to help the Customs Administration of the Netherlands and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands to be better equipped to meet their responsibilities in the context of the circular economy. The project will deliver a diagnostic problem analysis report, blueprint for piloting, and recommendations.

About the project

The Green Deal, the Circular Economy Action Plan, and national policies and objectives aim to retain value of products, reduce the use of primary materials and eliminate waste. Monitoring the practical implementation of circular economy policies and instruments will be challenging and when borders are crossed customs will continue to play a key role. Traceability of product and their material composition is of key importance for trade to enable recovery of high-quality secondary materials and to allow companies to show compliance. Achieving such traceability is very hard, as information is held by multiple actors in in complex supply chains.

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Results and achievements

The main expected result is that the data pipeline concept will be extended (in the context of the automotive industry) and the benefits will be conceptually analysed and made explicit, with possible further extension and application to other industries in the future.

Dr. Boriana Rukanova - Project Leader, TU Delft

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This project has received funding from the TSI Project Grants of the European Commission-EU under the Grant Agreement No101094495 .

Publications

References to scientific conference papers and presentations related to the Datapipe project

Rukanova, B., Ubacht,J., Turner,B., Tan,Y.H. Schmid, J., Rietveld,E., Hofman, W. (2023). A Framework for Understanding Circular Economy Monitoring: Insights from the Automotive Industry. In 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - Together in the unstable world: Digital government and solidarity (DGO 2023), July 11–14, 2023, Gdańsk, Poland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3598469.3598530
Ubacht, J., Schmid, J. Rietveld, E., Lennartz, J., Rukanova, B., Tan, Y.H. (2023). Data Sharing Arrangements for Monitoring in the EU Circular Economy: The Case of CBAM and Steel Import for the EU Automotive Sector, Proceedings EGOV-CeDeM-ePart conference, September 5-7, 2023, Budapest, Hungary. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3449/paper17.pdf
Rukanova, B., Ubacht, J., Tan, Y.H., Agahari, W. , A., Rietveld, E., Lennartz, J. (2023). The Anatomy of Circular Economy Monitoring through the Lens of Border Crossing and Levels of Control, Proceedings EGOV-CeDeM-ePart conference, September 5–7, 2023, Budapest, Hungary https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3449/paper32.pdf
Hofman, W., Rukanova, B., Tan, Y.H., Bharosa, N., Ubacht, J., Rietveld, E. (2024, forthcoming). Digital Infrastructures for Compliance Monitoring of Circular Economy: Requirements for Interoperable Data Spaces. Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC) 2024, 4-5 April 2024 in Berlin, Germany.
Rukanova, B., Ubacht, J., & Tan, Y. H. (2024, June). Border Crossing and Circular Economy Monitoring in a Global Context: Challenges and Opportunities. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (pp. 331-340). https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3657054.3657196
Hofman, W., Rukanova, B. D., Ubacht, J., Tan, Y., Rietveld, E., Lennartz, J., Agahari, W., Chirvasuta, T., & Schmid, J. (2024). Government Accessing Business Data for Compliance Monitoring of Circular Economy: DATAPIPE White paper. (pp. 1-6). https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34052.74885
Agahari, W., Rukanova, B., Ubacht, J., & Tan, Y. H. (2024). Multi-Party Computation as a Data Sharing Solution for Compliance Monitoring: An Exploratory Study in the Domain of Battery Circularity. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Vol. 3737). CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3737/paper1.pdf
Rukanova, B., Lennartz, J., Agahari, W., Schmid, J., Ubacht, J., Tan, Y. H., Rietveld, E., & Chirvasuta, T. (2024). What to Monitor? In Search for High-level Concepts for Circular Economy and Sustainability Monitoring. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Vol. 3737). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3737/paper8.pdf
Chirvasuta, T., Kurteva, A., Hofman, W., Rukanova, B., Tan, Y.H. (2025)Aligning the FEDeRATED Upper Ontology with Battery and Electronics Ontologies to Aid Circular Economy Monitoring in Practice. In proceedings of Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC) 2025 (to appear).

Workshop and poster presentations

Agahari, W., Rukanova, B., Ubacht, J., Tan, Y. H. (2023). Realizing platform-to-platform openness for enhancing circular economy monitoring and governance: an exploratory study. Presentation in Pre-ECIS 2023 workshop: Digital technologies for Circular Economy (Tech4CE), Kristiansand, Norway
Rietveld, E., Rukanova, B. (2023). Digital Product Passport, a crucial step in a circular transition and evolution of LCA. Poster presentation at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Ecology (ISIE2023)

Past events

5 March, 2024

EC Borschette Conference Centre, Brussels, Belgium DATAPIPE demo video presented at the CIRPASS final event

The DATAPIPE demo video, developed in collaboration with the CIRPASS project was presented during the CIRPASS final event in Brussels. The video presents an imaginary scenario of how authorities may potentially use Digital Product Passport data in the future for customs risk analysis. The imaginary scenario relates to export of end-of-life vehicles and how data-sharing infrastructures and use of aligned ontologies may allow authorities in the future to access dynamic battery data such as State-of-health data. The DATAPIPE short video, as well as the long version of the DATAPIPE developers’ video are available on the DATAPIPE website.

6-7 January, 2024

Data Sharing Festival, Den Haag

The DATAPIPE project was represented in the Data Sharing Festival in The Hague. In a panel, Wout Hofman (TNO) had the opportunity to discuss the Semantic data sharing approach of FEDeRATED and its application to the circular economy context in the DATAPIPE project. This was followed by a dedicated workshop where, Wout Hofman (TNO), Theodor-Christian Chirvasuta (TNO) and Boriana Rukanova (TU Delft) provided further details into the DATAPIPE demo for illustration of how the semantic data sharing architecture can be applied in the context of circular economy monitoring and battery passports.

13 -14 December 2023

The 7th International Conference on Electrical, Telecommunication and Computer Engineering 2023 (ELTICOM 2023), Medan, Indonesia (hybrid event)

Wirawan Agahari gave a keynote speech (on-line) titled “Digital technologies and circularity: a match made in heaven? The case of Multi-Party Computation (MPC) for Circularity Monitoring”, showcasing work from the DATAPIPE project.

14-15 September 2023

WCO climate change and Customs workshop, Brussels, Belgium

Boriana Rukanova was invited to participate at the WCO Climate Change and Customs workshop organized by the research and policy unit of the World Customs Organization. Insights from the DATAPIPE project on circular economy and sustainability monitoring were also discussed.

5-7 September 2023

IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART Conference, Budapest, Hungary

Jolien Ubacht presented two papers (see full reference above at publications):
- Data Sharing Arrangements for Monitoring in the EU Circular Economy: The Case of CBAM and Steel Import for the EU Automotive Sector.
- The Anatomy of Circular Economy Monitoring through the Lens of Border Crossing and Levels of Control

11-14 July 2023

DG.O 2023 The 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2023) in Gdańsk, Poland

Jolien Ubacht presented the paper (see full reference above at publications):
- A Framework for Understanding Circular Economy Monitoring: Insights from the Automotive Industry .

2-5 July 2023

ISIE2023 International Conference on Industrial Ecology, Leiden, The Netherlands

Elmer Rietveld presented an abstract Rietveld, E. & Rukanova, B. with the title Digital Product Passport, a crucial step in a circular transition and the LCA evolution.

11-16 June 2023

Pre-ECIS 2023 workshop Digital technologies for Circular Economy (Tech4CE), related to the ECIS conference, Kristiansand, Norway

Wirawan Agahari presented an extended abstract based on DATAPIPE results with the title Agahari, W., Rukanova, B. Ubacht, J., Tan, Y.H. Realizing Platform-to-Platform openness for Enhancing Circular Economy Monitoring and Governance: an exploratory study.

8 November 2022

Online participation in the event of the Confindustria and ITA - Italian Trade Agency

3 November 2022

DATAPIPE kick-off meeting

The DATAPIPE kick-off meeting took place on 3 November, 2022 with representatives from the DATAPIPE project team from TU Delft and TNO, DG REFORM, and the DATAPIPE beneficiaries from Dutch Customs and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.

19 October, 2022

DATAPIPE presented at the World Customs Organization Technology Conference in Maastricht

During the World Customs Organization’s Technology Conference in Maastricht, Boriana Rukanova gave a keynote speech on Green developments and presented the DATAPIPE project.