Onto-DESIDE Training Guide Launch – 17 Nov 2025
Value chain design, innovation & digitalisation for scaling the circular economy! We’re excited to launch two practical and complementary guides to solve bottlenecks in value chain innovation and information sharing, developed by the Onto-DESIDE project! In our upcoming lunchtime webinar – on 17th of November from 12-13:30pm CET – learn about the tools and support that are available and how to use them. Together, these two guides support circular economy innovation and implementation across industries by combining strategic insight with technical implementation: Together, these guides offer a comprehensive toolkit for planning, automating, and scaling circular value networks—supporting Europe’s digital and green Twin Transition. This is an official World Circular Economy Forum Side Event! A video recording of the event is available from the “Tools & training” page on our website!
European sustainability congress – November 5th 2025
On November 5th, Onto-DESIDE’s Eva Blomqvist and Fenna Blomsma spoke at the European Sustainability Congress 2025 during Circular Week 2025 in Warsaw! The session focused on enabling circular value chains and the role of digital technologies in this. Specifically, on how to enable decentralised data sharing so that resources can flow freely, yet sensitive information can be kept safe (what Onto-DESIDE is all about)!
Floor system
Floor systems Of all the industries that require a sustainable transformation to succeed in achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the construction sector is perhaps the most influential. Construction alone contributes to 23% of air pollution, 50% of climate change, 40% of drinking water pollution, 50% of landfill waste, and 40% of worldwide energy usage. Accounting for nearly 50% of annual global CO2 emissions, the built environment poses an existential threat to our planet. The main reason is the “take-make-waste” model of construction materials. They are produced, put in a building and then – after sometimes just 5-6 years – disposed. While decision-makers and industry leaders are eager to adopt new technologies to address these problems, the development of necessary solutions is still slow and industry needs new tools to implement new practices, including to help guide decisions towards a closed-loop “take-make-reuse” mentality by making better use of data. In the construction industry use case of Onto-DESIDE the objective has been to design a circular value network for reuse, refurbishment and recycling based on semantically linked data that makes it possible to further use construction components from a building. The use case accounted for the following two scenarios in supplying components/materials back to the manufacturer; the construction component is (1) reusable in its whole, or (2) as a secondary raw-material. For this use case one product from Lindner Group, i.e., the Nortec floor system, was selected and used as the object from which to elicit the information needs. The hypothesis was that Rang-Sells, together with Concular, could implement a take-back system for Lindner floor products, and outline ways to integrate that into current practices. The Onto-DESIDE project has identified challenges in such a new value chain, but also demonstrated the feasibility of secure data sharing along the value chain to enable decision making, e.g. whether to reuse, refurbish, or recycle materials. Through a combination of applying the Open Circularity Platform, for publishing and sharing data on used floor systems, and the commercial reuse platform Restado by Concular, the data flows of a take-back-system have been explored. The Onto-DESIDE ontologies, CEON, act as a vocabulary for semantic interoperability and data exchange between the systems, and supports the decision making by actors along the value chain.
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Beyond the project – Creating CE impact of Onto-DESIDE – February 3-4, 2025
On February 3-4 the Onto-DESIDE project held what will probably be its last f2f meeting, hosted by IMEC in Ghent, BE. The project is due to end in May 2025, with a potential extension for some partners to finish important project results. In the meeting the consortium discussed current results, and planned for the final evaluation phase starting in March. A joint cross-domain evaluation scenario was outlined, to showcase the cross-domain interoperability of data and ontologies in the final project iteration. Other topics included training material and standardisation efforts, including the newly propose W3C community group on Circular Economy and Digital Product Passports, initiated by the project. Lively discussions were also held on future research topics, and open challenges that can lead to new research breakthroughs in the future.
Next release of the ontology network and platform is around the corner – March 11, 2024
Two weeks ago, the Onto-DESIDE consortium gathered in Linköping, Sweden for the first f2f meeting in the second project iteration. Based on the results produced in the first 18 months, and evaluations in the project use cases, we are now improving an extending the ontology network and data sharing platform. New releases due end of March – see our results page, and GitHub repositories! The project is also preparing for the next (project internal) release of the research dataset, and the second evaluation phase that is planned for the summer. In addition, the project welcomes a new partner to the consortium – Prague University of Economics and Business, which will contribute methods and tools for managing transformations on ontologies and data.
3rd consortium meeting of Onto-DESIDE held in Italy – Sept 25-26, 2023
On September 25-26 the third Onto-DESIDE consortium meeting was held in Grottammare, Italy. The meeting focuses on the evaluation of the research deliverables, e.g. first prototypes of the ontology network and data sharing platform, and the further analysis of the industry use cases that will act as the basis for the next project iteration. The meeting featured some presentations on recent results, but also a lively discussion and interactive workshops. In addition, the consortium had the opportunity to visit the facilities of Texon Italy’s local fibre recycling facility.
First prototype of the CE Ontology Network to be presented at workshop – November 2023
First version of Onto-DESIDE ontology prototypes are online since March 2023, and recently a workshop paper describing these initial prototypes was accepted for the WOP workshop at ISWC2023, in Athens, Greece. See the workshop program to appear at the workshop webpage shortly!
2:nd Consortium meeting – February 22-23, 2023
On February 22–23, at the offices of Circularise in the city of Haage,the Netherlands, the Onto‑DESIDE project held its second f2f meeting.
Onto-DESIDE participates at the Swedish Trace4Value open project meeting – October 14, 2022
The Trace4Value project brings together partners from several industries to tackle the complex challenge of sustainable system transformation and the shift to climate-neutral and circular production with resource-efficient and resilient value chains.
