Action on circularity is not taken when information and evidence is not available across the life cycle chain. The CircThread project's main objective is to unlock access to data now in silo’s, and enhancing it as decision information for actors across and outside the extended product life cycle. To do this CircThread will deliver a Circular Digital Thread methodology, a framework for facilitating information flow exchanges across the extended life cycle chain of Products, Components, their Materials and Chemicals data, and related Circularity, Environmental, Social and Economic Information. The core is to create data linkages between product chain, value chain, asset chain and life cycle chains based on a Product information Catalogue, and enable information exchanges via data contracts governed by secure and reliable management standards. The project will implement the system in Cloud Platforms in 3 demonstration clusters in Italy, Slovenia and Spain rolled-out across the entire extended life cycle chain of home appliances (incl. washing machines and dish washers) and home energy systems (incl. boilers, solar-PV systems and batteries) to test 7 circularity use cases and associated business models. The expected impact for the work programme is to enable improved decision taking accelerating Circularity and Carbon emissions reductions including: i) Enhanced life extensions of products by better understanding of in use failures and maintenance needs, ii) improved understanding of the quality of end-of-life products for spare parts buy-backs to support right to repair, iii) improved assessment of circularity routes by waste management and recycling companies by delivering enhanced product composition data, iv) improved materials and chemicals tracing of products and components for safer products and identifying Critical Raw Materials cycles, v) Empowering decisions by citizens and citizen organisations by providing direct access to product performance information.

<< Background >>OUTDOC was born with the purpose of providing an opportunity to those PhD students that cannot access the academia and face the uncertainties of joining the labour market after a career devoted to research. It is a highly skilled labour force, that matches the needs of a highly demanding market, but that lacks the right soft skills for employability. These skills are not provided at education institutions, creating a gap that burdens the European industry competitiveness.<< Objectives >>The objective of OUTDOC is to cover for this training gap by providing these doctorate students with the soft skills that they lack to access the market. A comprehensive, tailored training program, outside formal education, will permit the students to access the market and thus cover the needs of the European XXI markets.<< Implementation >>A consortium of 4 companies and 4 SMEs, representing 4 different companies was settled. This consortium developed a survey that was carried out among 252 companies from emerging sectors to identify which are the soft skills that the market was requested. Once identified, all partners developed the contents for an online program, developing each of those soft skills. This online, customised, training was supported by a face to face activity, a set of complementary activities and a mobility (which<< Results >>10 modules have been developed170 students have completed the online training program10 streaming sessions, by international experts, have been produced6 face to face session has been carried out70 students have participated in the visiting companies activity32 mentoring sessions have been performed133 coaching session have been carried out4 Digital Challenges have been developed with the participation of 21 students