Digital proof of identity is an important basis for the digitalization of our lives. Digital wallets enable users to receive, manage, and present proof of identity and other documentation as part of digital processes.
This will make digital wallets an essential part of our society’s digital infrastructure. They will enable the complete digitalization of processes and thus allow for completely new approaches to problems, which also makes them the basis for disruptive innovations.
Various approaches are currently being discussed for implementing the wallets, but there is not enough implementation experience to make a well-founded decision on the most suitable approach.
The aim of Funke is to develop and test technical solutions for future German EUDI wallets in the form of prototypes. It is an innovation competition that will provide insights that will flow into the development of more secure, data-saving, usable and far-reaching EUDI wallets.
Develop the most trustworthy, user-friendly, and universally applicable European Digital Identity Wallet for users in Germany!
The SPRIND Funke EUDI Wallet Prototype
has a term of 15 months in 3 stages. SPRIND will fund six teams in stage 1, up to four teams in stage 2 and up to two teams in stage 3. In stage 1, the selected teams received up to 300,000 euros from SPRIND, for stage 2 up to 300,000 euros. For stage 3, two teams receive up to 450,000 euros each. In the second and third stages, the aim is to support the POTENTIAL LSP.
The decision on whether to take part in the third stage was made by a jury of experts in Berlin on December 10. Stage 2 began in September 2024 and lasted three months. Stage 3 begins in December 2024 and ends in September 2025.
Heidi: Humanzentrierte EID Infrastruktur
Animo Easy-PID
Lissi ID-Wallet
for Funke Challenge
wwWallet:
An open, web-based wallet
f.l.t.r.: Christiane Fritsch (ING Germany and Initiative D21), Luise Kranich (Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community), Thomas Lohninger (epicenter.works), Uwe Kraus (Federal Office for Information Security), Anja Lehmann (Cybersecurity - Identity Management at Hasso Plattner Institute), Peter Parycek (Fraunhofer-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme), Brian Behlendorf (Open Source Security Foundation), Torsten Loddersteddt (SPRIND GmbH), Ulrich Weinberg (School of Design Thinking at Hasso Plattner Institute), Ariane Jäger (UseTree GmbH)
Join us for the second Funke conference EUDI Wallet Prototypes
, scheduled for December 11, 2024, in Berlin. Following the impressive achievements and valuable learnings from stage 1, eight international teams have advanced to stage 2, continuing to innovate and refine their solutions. Discover firsthand the innovative solutions of the Funke teams who took on the challenge to create the most trustworthy, user-friendly European Digital Identity Wallet.
You can find more information about the event here.
On September 3, 2024, the SPRIND EUDI Wallet Prototypes
conference took place for the first time in Berlin. Interested visitors had the opportunity to get to know the eleven Funke teams and test their EUDI Wallet prototypes on site.
In addition, the stage program offered exciting expert talks and panel discussions. The documentation of the event is available at OpenCoDE.
Do you have further questions?
Please feel free to contact us at funke-eudi@sprind.org.
*When assessing Google's application, the jury expressed concerns about data protection. One jury member was clearly against Google due to privacy and anti-trust concerns. As the Google team met all the evaluation criteria and requirements (including privacy requirements), the majority of the jury members decided to invite the team to participate in Stage 1 and re-evaluate this aspect (among others) after the first stage.
