DEPUIS - Design of Environmentally friendly Products Using Information Standards

Funded by the European Commission, DG Enterprise

Contract No. 031149 in the 6th Framework Programme

The DEPUIS Project is one of the Europe Innova group of innovation networks

The strategic objective is to enable more companies, particularly SMEs, to use Life-Cycle-Thinking on the environmental impact of the design of new products and processes.

Eco-innovation relies on computerised information from many different sources and this will require standardisation to ensure that it can be used and understood by different computer systems.

The DEPUIS project will provide:

e-learning courses for life-cycle-assessment (LCA) and product data technology (PDT)

workshops for the students of the courses to speed-up the acceptance and application of the new technologies

The DEPUIS project should be of value to:

engineers and their managers, environmental consultants, SME advisers, software developers

who are wanting to develop their expertise to contribute to a sustainable world.

The current issue of the DEPUIS Newsletter is now available.