Digital Product Passports: Designing Frameworks for Value Chain Transparency

About the Project

Organizations are facing growing pressure to provide transparent, verifiable, and lifecycle-based information about products, sourcing, sustainability, and supply chains. This DBA research opportunity focuses on the design of digital product passport frameworks that support regulatory compliance, circularity, and consumer trust.

Possible research directions include value chain transparency, supplier data architecture, product lifecycle data, ESG reporting, circular product design, sustainability claims, and traceability systems.

This opportunity is particularly relevant for experienced professionals in textiles, battery manufacturing, consumer electronics, manufacturing, supply chain, sustainability, compliance, or digital transformation. Candidates may design a product-to-data mapping method, digital passport architecture, or supplier transparency framework.

The expected contribution is a practical artefact that helps organizations manage complex supply chain data while improving accountability, compliance, and market credibility.

Tuition and scholarships

This is a self-funded doctoral research opportunity. The total tuition fee for the Franklin Hudson DBA program is €62,600. Partial merit-based scholarships may be awarded to strong candidates, up to 30% maximum of tuition. Payment plans are available.