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CircThread

INESC TEC

About Project

Building the Digital Thread for Circular Economy Product, Resource & Service Management

CircThread’s main objective is to unlock access to product data between stakeholders that is now in silos and utilise it for improved circularity decision-making across the extended product life cycle. The CircThread or Circular Digital Thread project vision is to deliver a digital platform acting as an ‘information broker’ in a marketplace, where individual products will gain a digital identity with links to information in a publicly accessible ‘’catalogue’’, that can be easily requested and exchanged. The catalogue linked to the CircThread cloud ecosystem and physical product tags, will enable mobile and desktop-based access for tracing, retrieving and adding information on-site. CircThread will thereby enable capture, link to, combine, and share both data and decision information for circularity as part of a collaborative information infrastructure, providing a Circular Product Chain of Custody.
Acronym

CircThread

Responsible

António Manuel Lucas Soares

Status

active

Start

January 1, 2021

End

January 31, 2025

Effective End

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Global Budget

€7,994,956.00

Financing

€328,252.00

Members

Team Leaders
António Lucas Soares
António Lucas Soares

António Lucas Soares is a researcher at INESCTEC and associate professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering - University of Porto.

His area of expertise is Information Systems specialised in applications to Collaborative Networks and Information and Knowledge Management particularly in industrial organisations. His research interests include socio-technical design, knowledge representation, digital platforms for collaboration, design science research.

He is currently coordinating the Center for Enterprise Systems Engineering and the Cluster Industry & Innovation of INESCTEC.

At University of Porto, he is the director of the master programme in Information Science (FEUP/FLUP). He is member of the executive committee of the European chapter of the iSchools organisation and a founding member of the Portuguese Chapter of the Association for Information Systems.

He publishes regularly in scientific journals in the areas of information and knowledge management.

Ana Nunes Alonso
Ana Nunes Alonso

I am a researcher at the High Assurance Software Lab (HASLab) and an Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Minho, where I lecture in courses in Fault Tolerance, Distributed Systems and Operating Systems. My research interests include dependable data management and data processing systems and different fault tolerance mechanisms.

I have contributed to multiple National and European research and innovation projects in collaboration with industry in the Software Engineering, Insurance and Energy domains.

 

Associated Centres

High-Assurance Software

At the High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), we improve practice through theory, creating and implementing software that goes beyond mere functionality: we ensure it is correct, resilient, and secure against failures and attacks. Our team of researchers, scientists, and engineers has proven expertise in software engineering, developing methods and tools to design and integrate robust software; in distributed systems, exploring distribution and replication to ensure scalability and reliability; and in information security, addressing cybersecurity challenges and improving systems with advanced, secure cryptographic protocols, thus minimising vulnerabilities. With a multidisciplinary approach supported by solid theoretical principles, we develop innovative solutions for critical software, secure cloud infrastructures, and privacy-aware big data management, driving scientific advancement, innovation, and high-level consultancy. In addition, we complement our core expertise with work in human-computer interaction, programming languages, computational mathematics, and quantum computing - because we believe the future of trustworthy software is built on knowledge and innovation.

High-Assurance Software

Enterprise Systems Engineering

The research carried out at the Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) has a direct impact on industrial transformation, developing sustainable, resilient, and human-centred solutions to address the challenges of the digital and green transitions. Through a co-creation and development approach with scientific and industrial partners, CESE contributes to improve organisational capabilities and driving systemic innovation in complex industrial contexts. As a multidisciplinary research centre, CESE bridges science and practice in the field of Systems Engineering, focusing on value creation within industrial ecosystems. This mission is structured around five research lines that define CESE scientific and technological expertise: Manufacturing Systems Design and Management, Supply Chain and Collaborative Networks Management, Architectures and Industrial Information Systems, Technology Management in Industry, Transportation and Logistics.

Enterprise Systems Engineering