EM4 - Digital Product Passport and Blockchain Technology
This module comprises an introduction to Digital Product Passports and Blockchains addressed to management personnel in companies. No prerequisites are needed.
The course is structured in the following sections:
Introduction
• Sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR)
CSR and risk management
• Improvement of Sustainability and Reputational Risk of companies
Supply chains
• Sustainability roadmap for supply chains
• Supply chain traceability
Digital Product Passport
• Definition and goals of the digital product passport
• Examples and trends in policy and industry
Digital supply chains
• New practices to support the traceability of supply chains26
Blockchain
• Introduction and uses of blockchains
• Blockchain and sustainability
Insights and conclusions of the course
• Transfer of concepts to individual contexts