The Pilots for European Digital Identity wallet (POTENTIAL) project supports the broader objective of the European Digital Identity Framework to improve citizens' access to reliable and secure electronic identity tools and services, such as e-signatures or e-certificates of identity.
The POTENTIAL project will benefit the business sector by promoting competitiveness in Europe and enabling the acceleration of business processes, creating new business opportunities in many sectors. The project will also contribute to expanding the opportunities for citizens, including people with accessibility difficulties, to access public and private online services, as well as for offline use, by improving their ability to control when and with whom their personal identity data is shared.
Furthermore, the POTENTIAL communication and dissemination strategy promotes opportunities for new infrastructures and enables EU Member States to build up the necessary expertise and infrastructure. POTENTIAL also intends to cooperate with other EU-funded projects and other successful consortia in the same call for proposals to enhance synergies.
GRNET is involved in use cases concerning e-identification for using services on gov.gr, for opening a bank account, registering a mobile phone SIM card, online and proximity sharing of driving licence data, remotely authorised digital signature, and e-prescription.
The POTENTIAL project includes 18 EU Member States as well as Ukraine. France leads the consortium as coordinator, with Germany in the role of technical coordinator. Other Member States contributing to the project are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain.
The project is funded by the Digital Europe Programme, under the proposal DIGITAL-2022-DEPLOY-02: "Pilots for European Digital Identity Wallet", with 50% funding from the European Commission and 50% from the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance.
