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# tieback Academy

> Free, structured learning on Digital Product Passports. Six Foundations modules, about two hours, no prior DPP expertise required, built on the open tieback Knowledge Base.

#### Understand Digital Product Passports.

## The Six Module Foundations Journey

Foundations is one path, taken in order. Each module builds on the one before it, ends with a short
assessment, and leaves you with something you can use at work rather than a page of notes.

#### Ready to begin?

## What You Will Be Able to Do

Foundations is written around what you can do afterwards, not around what you have read.

## Who It Is For

Foundations assumes no ecodesign law background and no technical background. It is written for the
people who get handed this problem, whatever the size of the organisation.

## Learn, Apply, Check Understanding

Every lesson follows the same shape, so you always know where you are.

## Academy and Knowledge

Knowledge is where you look something up. Academy is where you learn the subject systematically.

| Layer                                  | Use it when                                                        | Cost                |
| -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------- |
| [Knowledge Base](/docs/knowledge-base) | You need the fact, the citation, the date or the definition        | Free forever        |
| **Academy**                            | You need to learn the subject in order and prove you understood it | Foundations is free |

The division is permanent. No fact is ever moved behind the Academy. Every lesson sends you to the
canonical article for the authoritative text, and that article stays open to everyone with no
account. If a lesson and an article ever disagree, the article is correct and the lesson is a
defect.

Useful entry points into the reference layer: the
[Knowledge Base](/docs/knowledge-base), the
[Glossary](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/overview) for any term you meet in a lesson, and
[tieback Frameworks](/docs/knowledge-base/frameworks/overview) for the named models the lessons
teach you to apply.

## Completion

When all six modules are complete, the
[Foundations completion page](/docs/academy/foundations/completion) confirms what you have covered
and gives you a tieback Academy Foundations completion acknowledgement.

That acknowledgement records course completion. It is training, not an accreditation. It is not
recognised, endorsed or issued by the European Union or any regulatory authority, and it does not
certify products, conformity or compliance.

Progress and knowledge check scores are stored in your own browser. There is no account and no sign
in, which also means progress does not follow you to another device and clearing site data clears
it. Accounts and portable progress arrive with the wider Academy release.

## What Comes After Foundations

Five further paths are specified and will follow Foundations: Implementation Practitioner, Data and
Architecture, Compliance and Regulation, Standards and Interoperability, and Governance and
Operations, plus sector add-ons for batteries, construction products, textiles and electronics.
None of them is open yet, and none of them will ever paywall a fact.

#### Start Foundations, free

## Related Docs

* [DPP Foundations path](/docs/academy/foundations)
* [Module 1: What a Digital Product Passport Actually Is](/docs/academy/foundations/module-1)
* [Foundations completion](/docs/academy/foundations/completion)
* [Knowledge Base](/docs/knowledge-base)
* [Getting Started with tieback Knowledge](/docs/knowledge-base/getting-started/overview)
* [Glossary](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/overview)
* [tieback platform and product site](https://tieback.io)