Human Experience
Focuses on work, safety, wellbeing, dignity, agency, inclusion and the experience of the people affected.
Industry 5.0 Certification · Planned
Turn Industry 5.0 commitments into evidence you can demonstrate.
Assessment, verification and certification for human-centred, sustainable and resilient transformation.
i5Certification is a planned certification scheme owned by Sustainable Intelligence ASBL and built on the i5Benchmark Framework and Methodology. It is intended to connect governed criteria with organisational evidence, structured assessment and verification. No certificate has been issued.
Certification scheme · Planned
Why it matters
Industry 5.0 needs more than a statement of intent.
Organisations increasingly describe transformation as human-centred, sustainable, resilient or responsible. Certification creates a structured way to examine whether those claims are supported by evidence, implemented in practice and reflected in measurable outcomes.
Evidence
Connect claims with traceable organisational and operational evidence.
Verification
Move from self-description toward structured review and evidence-supported findings.
Progress
Use reassessment and follow-up evidence to show how performance changes over time.
Assessment foundation
Five dimensions of Industry 5.0 performance.
Select a domain to explore its focus.
Industry 5.0 Certification Framework
Selected dimension
Sustainable Practices
Focuses on environmental impact, resource use, circularity and the sustainability of operations and value creation.
Resilience & Adaptability
Focuses on the ability to anticipate, absorb, recover, learn and adapt under changing conditions.
Responsible Innovation
Focuses on whether technologies and interventions are appropriately selected, designed, tested and deployed.
Accountability
Focuses on responsibility, explainability, traceability, redress and whether claims can be examined and followed up.
From claim to evidence
Certification connected to a living evidence system.
Evidence-based
Assessment is grounded in documented evidence rather than a one-time declaration.
Multidimensional
Human, environmental, resilience, innovation and accountability considerations are examined together.
Traceable
Findings connect back to their evidence, scope and assessment context.
Continuous
Plans may change a projected trajectory, but verified new evidence is what supports a change in assessed performance.
How it works
From readiness to verified progress.
The planned certification journey.
- 01
Prepare
Bring together the organisation’s relevant evidence, for example in its Sustin profile.
- 02
Map
Connect evidence with the applicable Industry 5.0 criteria and assessment scope.
- 03
Assess
Review evidence across the five Industry 5.0 domains.
- 04
Verify
Examine material evidence and findings through the governed verification process.
- 05
Certify
Where requirements are met, record the applicable certification status and scope.
- 06
Improve & reassess
Track actions and new evidence, then reassess progress over time.
Certification pathways
One foundation. Different contexts.
The common Industry 5.0 Framework can support certification pathways designed around different organisational and technological contexts.
All certification pathways shown below are currently planned / in development.
i5 CERTIFIED ORGANISATION
Flagship pathway
A whole-organisation pathway examining Industry 5.0 performance across the five Framework domains.
i5 HUMAN-CENTRED WORKPLACE
Focused on the experience of work, safety, agency, skills, wellbeing and responsible organisational change.
i5 HUMAN-CENTRED PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Examines how products and services create value for people while addressing sustainability, resilience and accountability.
i5 RESPONSIBLE TECHNOLOGY & AI
For organisations developing or deploying technologies whose human, environmental and governance effects require structured evidence and review.
i5 CLIMATE & RESILIENT OPERATIONS
Focused on climate resilience, sustainable operations, adaptation and the evidence supporting organisational response.
i5 RESPONSIBLE SUPPLY & VALUE CHAIN
Examines responsibility, evidence and resilience across suppliers, value creation and affected stakeholders.
Who it is for
Designed for organisations navigating real transformation.
- Companies & SMEs
- Build a clearer picture of Industry 5.0 readiness and demonstrate progress with evidence.
- Deep-tech & AI teams
- Connect technological performance with human outcomes, sustainability, resilience and responsible innovation.
- Cities & public organisations
- Examine services, infrastructure, community outcomes and resilience through a common evidence framework.
- Industrial & value-chain networks
- Create a comparable foundation for responsible transformation across organisations and suppliers.
- Financial & institutional partners
- Use more structured and traceable evidence when examining sustainability, transition and responsible-innovation claims.
Connected system
Certification does not sit in isolation.
i5Benchmark defines the methodological foundation. Sustin helps organisations organise and connect evidence. i5Certification is planned to apply governed assessment and verification. i5Index is research and development on carefully governed comparison.
- i5BenchmarkFramework & Methodology
- SustinLiving sites · Evidence · Frameworks
- i5CertificationCertification scheme · Planned
- i5IndexCoordinates · Comparison · Visualisation
Governance
Built on governed methodology and reviewable evidence.
Sustainable Intelligence ASBL owns the planned i5Certification scheme and develops the i5Benchmark Framework and Methodology. The certification system is designed around transparent criteria, evidence traceability, methodological review and the continued development of verification protocols.
Framework and certification development draws on Industry 5.0 research, international standards, sustainability and responsible-innovation practice, and evidence from affected people and real-world implementation.
SUSTIN C.I.C. builds technology and products; it does not carry out assessments or certification.
Explore Sustainable Intelligence ASBL →Current status
Building the certification infrastructure.
Available foundation
- i5Benchmark Framework, Charter v2.0 and Methodology v2.0
- Live Observatory
- Evidence and readiness architecture
Planned
- Certification criteria and protocols
- Assessment structures
- Verification workflow
- Certification governance
Next
- Selected validation / pilot engagements
- Methodology refinement
- Certification pathway testing
Scheme information
i5Certification will get its own home.
Scheme information will be published when the scheme is ready. Until then, no website is published for it.
Planned
Start a conversation
Preparing for Industry 5.0 certification?
We are inviting organisations, innovation teams and institutional partners interested in future assessment, verification, pilot participation and certification pathways to start a conversation.