Call for proposal: EU Digital Identity Wallet large scale pilots

A new call for proposals for EU action grants has been launched in the field of Accelerating the Best Use of Technologies under the Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL). It focuses on the "European Digital Identity and Trust Ecosystem (Standards and Sample Implementation)". Below is all the related information:

• Type of action: DIGITAL-SIMPLE DIGITAL Simple Grants
• Objective: The action aims to support the implementation of the European Digital Identity and Trust Ecosystem and manage the transition between the current and future frameworks supplementing or replacing the current digital service infrastructure (eID) by the EU Digital Identity Wallet framework. For this purpose, Member States and other participants to the European Digital Identity Ecosystem shall be enabled to rely on a set of specifications and tools supporting the implementation of the wallet, other identity means and trust services.
• Scope: The action will be implemented using grants and focuses on pilot implementations of the EU Digital Identity Wallet and its ecosystem by public and private sector service providers validating technical references, standards, components and solutions, with regards to new use cases for exchanging digital attestations of attributes and identity credentials by means of a personalised digital wallet. These activities could also include innovative technical solutions based on electronic ledgers such as those developed by EBSI where the use of blockchain is assessed as adding value.
• Expected Outcomes: Support for two successive waves of large-scale pilots to test the deployment of the EU Digital Identity Wallet in priority use cases, including pilots using EBSI to support the EU Digital Identity Wallet in cross border use cases, deploying the EU Digital Identity Wallet in national eID ecosystems by Member States. The second round of grants should help enhance technical specifications and implementation guidelines for the wallet and its eco-system and prepare its application in a new range of use cases, enabling it to support interaction with a wide range of public and private services and related attestations.
• Opening date: 14 May 2024
• Deadline date: 24 September 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time

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