POTENTIAL builds and realizes applications for testing the European Digital Identity Wallet launched by the European Commission.
Explore POTENTIAL’s pilots
Update on Proposal
The POTENTIAL Consortium is selected by the European Commission to pursue its journey to digital European Identity. On 14/12/2022, the European Commission announced the results of the LSP on the European Digital Identity Wallet. The POTENTIAL Consortium is thrilled to share that its proposal, submitted in August 2022, has been selected by the European Commission.
148 participants from 19 EU member states and Ukraine gather in the POTENTIAL Consortium to pilot new coming EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW) prototypes in six Use Cases (“Electronic Government services”, “Account opening”, “SIM registration”, “Mobile Driving Licence”, “Remote Qualified Electronic Signature”, and “Electronic Prescription”).
The POTENTIAL Consortium renews its commitment to implementing these pilots with ambition and determination.
All POTENTIAL participants are glad to be entrusted by the European Commission to build such pioneering Use Cases for cross-border testing of the digital European Identity. The POTENTIAL Consortium is now ready to engage into a round of negotiations with DG CONNECT which will be concluded by the signature of the Grant Agreement (GA) and the launch of the project, estimated beginning of May 2023.
Envisioning Europe's Digital Identity
The PilOTs for EuropeaN digiTal Identity wALlet (POTENTIAL) consortium for Digital Identity unites 20 countries represented by their national ministries as well as third parties and aims to improve citizens’ access to trusted and secure electronic identity means and services such as electronic signatures or attestations of attributes. This shall enable citizens to store their ID in a secure digital wallet valid across borders.
The mission is to shape and realize scenarios for testing the European Digital Identity Wallet being launched by the European Commission.
POTENTIAL launches six use cases in the fields of banking, mobility, health, and administration to pilot the usage of the European Digital Identity Wallet, offering several benefits:
Crossing borders.
Digital identification that can be used both domestically and across borders throughout Europe.
Collaborative conformity.
Linked to the national ID of the member states and compliant with European legal frameworks.
Maximum security.
Secure digital vault with full user control over data sharing.
Convenient user experience.
User-friendly digital user experience with services available anytime and anywhere.
Pilots
SIM eRegistration
Objective and Vision
Simplification and full digitalization of SIM Card registration. Citizens register and activate their SIM Cards for plan and prepaid contracts digitally within the European Digital Identity Wallet.
Account Opening
Objective and Vision
Convenient and secure account opening and management. Opening a current, savings, or custody account online and anytime gives citizens more freedom to manage their bank account.
eDriving Licence
Objective and Vision
Driving Licence on citizens’ personal devices. Equipping citizens with an eDriving Licence, commonly known as mobile Driving Licence (mDL), allowing identity verification and licence checking at car rental services or during police checks.
eGov Services
Objective and Vision
Simplification and full digitalization of identification and authentication. Enabling citizens to use eGov services, such as online administrative procedures, with their European Digital Identity Wallet.
eSignature
Objective and Vision
Convenient digital Qualified eSignatures. Increasing eSignature usage integrating their functionality to create qualified eSignatures.
ePrescription
Objective and Vision
Paperless and convenient medical prescriptions. From the doctor’s prescription to pharmacy pickup, the secure European Digital Identity Wallet gives citizens secure data control. This enables access to health information and users’ control over who they wish to share their health data with and when, all over Europe.
POTENTIAL for Digital Europe
POTENTIAL unites 148 participants from 19 EU member states from Northern, Western, Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe – representing more than 70% of the European population – and Ukraine. POTENTIAL’s pilots drive European digitalization and ease numerous administrative as well as tedious identification processes in everyday situations. The aim is to vividly illustrate the possibilities, functionalities, and added value of a European Digital Identity Wallet. By involving relevant market players, POTENTIAL quickly scales solutions which build on existing market-relevant national solutions.
Starting 2023, POTENTIAL will invest more than 60 million Euro to deploy their six use cases. POTENTIAL supports the national and cross-border implementation of the new European Digital Identity Wallet. The pilots integrate relying parties as verifying entities into the use cases ecosystem. The European Commission supports the Large Scale Pilots within their Digital Europe Programme call “Accelerating best use of technologies”. POTENTIAL submitted their application in August 2022.
POTENTIAL member states
- Austria
- Belgium
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Italy
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Ukraine
Timeline
06/2021
Kickoff
With the eIDAS 2 regulation, the European Commission intends to fully realize their vision of the cross-border European Digital Identity Wallet.
06/2021
Kickoff
With the eIDAS 2 regulation, the European Commission intends to fully realize their vision of the cross-border European Digital Identity Wallet.
08/2022
Application
POTENTIAL submits their application to the European Commission's call to test pilot use cases for the European Digital Identity Wallet.
08/2022
Application
POTENTIAL submits their application to the European Commission's call to test pilot use cases for the European Digital Identity Wallet.
10/2022
Technical Specifications
The European Commission and eIDAS experts finalize the technical specifications of the European Digital Identity Wallet.
10/2022
Technical Specifications
The European Commission and eIDAS experts finalize the technical specifications of the European Digital Identity Wallet.
2022/23
Pilots
POTENTIAL prepares, develops and tests pilots for the integration into the European Digital Identity Wallet.
2022/23
Pilots
POTENTIAL prepares, develops and tests pilots for the integration into the European Digital Identity Wallet.
2024/25
Testing
POTENTIAL tests their pilots in the context of the European Digital Identity Wallet.
2024/25
Testing
POTENTIAL tests their pilots in the context of the European Digital Identity Wallet.
03/2025
End of Funding
The European Commission’s funding phases out. The pilots will have rendered the member states and Europe more sovereign in the digital era.
03/2025
End of Funding
The European Commission’s funding phases out. The pilots will have rendered the member states and Europe more sovereign in the digital era.
04/2025
New eID solutions
Initiation of continuous eID solutions and application development based on the defined sustainable business strategy and roadmap.
04/2025
New eID solutions
Initiation of continuous eID solutions and application development based on the defined sustainable business strategy and roadmap.