What are the Large Scale Pilot Projects

PILOTS PROJECTS

What are the Large Scale Pilots Projects

The Pilot Projects are test driving the wallets’ specifications

The Pilots are building on the specifications detailed in the Toolbox and the Reference Implementation. Each Pilot is testing the EU Digital Identity Wallet in a variety of everyday scenarios, relevant to Europeans day to day lives. The Pilot Projects will take place over a period of 2 years. The results of their tests will be shared to further improve the security, interoperability, and design of the EU Digital Identity Wallet.

4 Pilot Projects

Four Large Scale Pilot projects, launched in April 2023, are testing the EU Digital Identity Wallet before its roll-out to Member States.

250 Participants

Over 250 private companies and public authorities across 25 Member States as well as Norway, Iceland, and Ukraine are participating in the four Pilot Projects. Each one operates as a consortium bringing together public and private sector expertise from across the EU.

The European Commision, Member States and Pilot Projects are working together to create the Wallet Toolbox

European Commission

The European Commission, and Member States, are together providing the specifications and guidelines needed to build the EU Digital Identity Wallet with the EU Digital Identity Wallet Toolbox.

Large Scale Pilots

The Pilots are building on the specifications detailed in the Toolbox and the Reference Implementation, and will pilot and test the wallet in a variety of everyday use cases. Feedback from the Pilot Projects will inform the next versions of the Toolbox.

Member States

The end result of this process will be a well-tested open-source code base for the wallet, that will be used by Member States to build their own wallets.

Meet the 4 Pilot Projects

In 2022 the Digital Europe Program — an EU funding programme focused on bringing digital technology to businesses, citizens and public administrations — put out a call to launch pilot projects for the EU Digital Identity Wallet. Four Large Scale Pilot projects began in April 2023, with more to come in the future.

Pilots for European Digital Identity Wallet

POTENTIAL is co-led by France and Germany and includes 19 EU Member States and Ukraine. POTENTIAL aims to foster innovation, collaboration and growth in six digital identity sectors — governmental services, banking, telecommunications, mobile driving licenses, electronic signatures, and health.

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EU Digital Wallet Consortium

The EU Digital Wallet Consortium (EWC) is a joint effort to successfully leverage the benefits of the proposed EU digital identity in the form of Digital Travel Credentials across the Member States. The EWC intends to build on the Reference Wallet Application to enable a use case focused on Digital Travel Credentials.

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Digital Credentials for Europe

DC4EU provides tangible support to the public and private sectors in the educational and social security domains by deploying and accessing state-of-the-art trans-European interoperable digital service infrastructures and their integration in a cross-border trust framework.

Visit DC4EU

NOBID Consortium

NOBID is a set of Nordic and Baltic countries who, together with Italy and Germany, will pilot the use of the EU Digital Identity Wallet for the authorisation of payments for products and services by the wallet user.

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Discover the use cases being tested in the Large Scale Pilots

Discover all the use cases

The Large Scale Pilots are testing a wide range of every-day use cases for the EU Digital Identity Wallet. Including:

Education Certification

Store and share your most university diplomas and other education credentials

Claiming Prescriptions

Identify yourself and fill prescriptions at pharmacists

Travelling

Store and share key travel documents like boarding passes and hotel reservations