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Advanced Digitalization 2026

Activity and context

As part of the Vinnova1 funded STELLA project’s dissemination activities, the project team participated in Avancerad Digitalisering2 2026, held in Lund, Sweden, on 23 September 2026. The event brought together 338 participants from industry, academia, research institutes, and the public sector to exchange knowledge and demonstrate applications of advanced digitalization. Its program included a project exhibition, providing a relevant setting for presenting STELLA’s work on Digital Product Passports (DPPs).

Objectives and exhibition content

The purpose of the participation was to increase the visibility and communicate the practical relevance of DPPs to stakeholders beyond the project consortium.

At the exhibition space, the team displayed a chair alongside a poster presenting its Digital Product Passport and accompanying visual material. Combining a physical product with information about its digital representation provided a concrete illustration of the DPP concept. The display was intended to make the relationship between a product and its associated information accessible to both technical and non-technical audiences.

The activity focused on communicating the importance of product information, traceability, and information sharing across the furniture value chain, rather than presenting DPPs solely as a digital label or technological solution.

Connection with Forest 4.0

The dissemination topic also connects with Forest 4.0 through the relationship between forestry, wood-based materials, and furniture production. This connection provides an opportunity to position DPPs within a broader “forest-to-furniture” perspective, highlighting the importance of reliable information flows between upstream material suppliers and downstream manufacturers and other value-chain actors.

From this perspective, a furniture product can be presented not only as a finished item but also as part of a longer material and information chain. The chair displayed at the exhibition offered a concrete starting point for communicating how product information could connect different stages, from material sourcing and manufacturing to use, maintenance, reuse, and recycling.

STELLA and Forest 4.0 can therefore provide complementary perspectives on digital transformation: the furniture DPP example helps illustrate downstream product-information

1 https://www.vinnova.se/en/

2 https://www.avanceraddigitalisering.se/events/motesplats-avancerad-digitalisering-2026/

needs, while the forestry connection highlights the relevance of upstream information and traceability.

Outputs and follow-up

The activity comprised participation in the project exhibition and presentation of a chair, a DPP poster, and supporting visual material. The exhibition format provided an opportunity to explain the DPP concept through a recognizable physical product rather than through technical descriptions alone. It also created a setting for connecting the project’s research focus with practical questions about product information, traceability, and cooperation across the value chain.

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From forest to furniture: Preparing the furniture and interior industry for Digital Product Passports

Digital Product Passports (DPPs) are becoming an important part of the EU’s work towards more sustainable and circular products. Furniture is one of the product groups included in the EU’s plans, but the specific DPP requirements for furniture are not yet in force. The European Commission currently has an indicative timeline of 2028 for adopting the furniture-specific rules.

This gives the industry time to prepare, and in Sw4eden, that work has already started.

Interior Cluster Sweden has carried out several projects and activities to build knowledge about DPPs, share experiences and help companies understand what the transition could mean in practice. A recent example was a workshop at Möbelriksdagen 2026 in Växjö. This is one of several examples of how Interior Cluster Sweden collaborates with Linnaeus University to connect academic knowledge with the practical needs of the furniture and interior industry.

From knowledge to practical questions

Möbelriksdagen is an annual event for the Swedish furniture and interior industry, bringing together companies and other actors from the sector. At the 2026 event, Interior Cluster Sweden organised a workshop on DPP with participants from industry, academia, municipalities and standardisation organisations.

The workshop built on the work already carried out in Sweden and focused on practical questions: What information is needed? Where does it come from? Who is responsible for it? How can it be shared between different actors?

The discussions showed that a DPP is much more than a QR code or a digital label. It is about collecting, managing and sharing reliable information throughout a product’s life – from design and sourcing to manufacturing, use, repair, reuse and end of life.

A value-chain challenge

This makes DPPs a value-chain challenge. A furniture manufacturer cannot necessarily provide all the information on its own. Suppliers may hold information about materials, composition and origin, manufacturers about design and production, while repair, reuse and recycling actors need other types of information.

For companies, an important first step is therefore to understand what information already exists, where it comes from, who is responsible for keeping it accurate and where there are gaps.

This value-chain perspective also connects to Forest 4.0. Digital information and traceability can help strengthen links between different actors and improve the flow of information across the value chain. For the furniture and interior industry, this means looking beyond the individual product and considering how information is created, shared and used throughout its life cycle.

Preparing before the requirements are final

The detailed requirements for furniture DPPs are still being developed. The inclusion of furniture in the EU working plan does not itself mean that a DPP is already mandatory for furniture products. Future product-specific rules will define the detailed requirements and compliance timeline.

There are, however, practical steps companies can already take. These include reviewing existing product information, identifying gaps, clarifying responsibilities and working with suppliers to improve data quality and availability. Companies can also test how better product information could support customers, professional buyers, repair, reuse and recycling.

For SMEs, preparation does not have to start with a large technical solution. The workshop report suggests starting with one product family, building on information that already exists and learning through testing and collaboration.

The work carried out by Interior Cluster Sweden shows that the Swedish furniture and interior industry has already started this journey. The Möbelriksdagen workshop was another step towards a shared understanding of what DPPs can mean in practice – and how companies and the wider value chain can prepare for the requirements ahead.

Would you like to learn more?

Read the full report: https://forest40.lt/digital-product-passports-for-furniture-smes/

Learn more: https://interiorcluster.se/mobelriksdagen

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Digital Product Passports for Furniture SMEs

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Author(s)

Fisnik Dalipi

Type of publication

Workshop report

Event

Möbelriksdagen 2026, Växjö, Sweden

Workshop

Fördjupning Digitala Produktpass (DPP)

Date Issued

Date Issued
2026

Report compiler

Fisnik Dalipi

Organiser

Interior Cluster Sweden

Workshop moderators

Fisnik Dalipi (Linnaeus University), Niklas Malmros (Sigma Tech.), Erik Lundh (Interior Cluster Sweden)

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Forest Data 4.0: Experience and Future Development Directions

25 September 2026 | 13:00 | Online | Webinar language: Lithuanian

We invite you to the second webinar in the Forest 4.0 online seminar series.

On 25 September at 13:00, we will present the remote sensing data collection platforms currently used and developed within Forest 4.0:

an ultralight aircraft equipped with integrated laser, hyperspectral and photographic scanning systems;
unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with LiDAR and multispectral sensors;
a mobile remote sensing laboratory;
terrestrial scanning solutions operating in SLAM mode;
and the upcoming development plans of Forest 4.0.

Using examples from Punia Forest, the Tauragė region and phenological monitoring, we will discuss how different platforms and sensors are selected for tasks of different scales – from detailed studies of individual objects to mapping areas of up to 20,000 hectares.

We will also share impressions from INTERGEO 2026 in Munich, highlighting the latest trends in geospatial data collection and the next development steps for Forest 4.0.

Programme

Introduction

Smart forestry starts with properly collected data

Nerijus Kupstaitis
Director of Forest 4.0

Presentation I

Large-area laser and hyperspectral scanning using an ultralight aircraft

Donatas Jonikavičius
Expert

Kęstutis Staniulis
Pilot

Presentation II

Unmanned aerial vehicles, different sensors and the mobile field laboratory

Giedrius Bosas
Expert

Presentation III

Mobile LiDAR, SLAM and future SLAM–GNSS integration

Ričardas Beniušis
Senior Researcher

Presentation IV

INTERGEO 2026 innovations and Forest 4.0 technology development plans

Monika Papartė
Researcher

Expert discussion

How to select the most suitable platform and sensor combination?

Open discussion

Questions and answers

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SilvaFormer: Transformer-Based Segmentation for Forest Health Monitoring in UAV Imagery

Author(s)

Shafiullah Soomro; Rytis Maskeliūnas; Robertas Damaševičius; Arianit Kurti

Type of publication

Journal Article

Date Issued

Date Issued
2026

Publisher

IEEE

DOI

10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3712179

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Nerijus Kupstaitis at TU Dresden: Advancing the Future of Forest 4.0

Nerijus Kupstaitis, CEO of CoE has revisited Tharandt Forest Academy since early 2000's after finishing doctoral thesis there.

In digital forestry, technology is moving fast, being part of that network it's how the field moves forward.
That's exactly why we joined the ARiF General Working Group Meeting (COST Action CA23135) at the historic Tharandt Forest Academy (TU Dresden), the cradle of forestry science since 1811. Two days of presentations, discussion and connection, including:
• HoloLens 2 for accurate DBH measurements in the forest
• Digital twin–based virtual tree tagging linking field and office
• Augmented reality projects across Europe
• Advanced forest inventory through laser scanning and 3D modelling
• Forest 4.0 digital solutions — Lithuanian examples
• A shared discussion on the future direction of the ARiF Action

Representing Lithuania and Vytautas Magnus University in this network is a real opportunity — and a group photo of all participants is coming soon. Stay tuned!