Funke
EUDI WALLET Prototypes

Hello people with radical new ideas!
We need pioneering solutions to shape the future of digital identity in Germany. We need you.

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 FUNKE IN DETAIL – OVERVIEW (.PDF)
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Start of the 2nd stage

The SPRIND Spark “EUDI Wallet Prototype” has a term of 13 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, the teams will each receive up to 300,000 euros. Up to 350,000 euros per team are planned for stage 3. In the second and third stages, the aim is to support the POTENTIAL LSP.

The decision on whether to take part in the second stage was made by a jury of experts in Berlin on September 4. Stage 2 begins in September 2024 and lasts three months. Stage 3 begins in December 2024 and ends in June 2025.

The Teams – Funded track

Sphereon Wallet for All

Sphereon Wallet for All

Heidi: Humanzentrierte EID Infrastruktur

Heidi: Humanzentrierte EID Infrastruktur

Animo Easy-PID

Animo Easy-PID

eEWA – easy EUDI-Wallet App

eEWA – easy EUDI-Wallet App

Non-Funded track

Android German EUDI Open Source Wallet Prototype (Google*)

Android German EUDI
Open Source Wallet Prototype*

Lissi ID-Wallet for Funke Challenge (Lissi)

Lissi ID-Wallet
for Funke Challenge

Samsung solution for EUDI Wallets (Samsung)

Samsung solution for EUDI Wallets

wwWallet: An open, web-based wallet (Sunet, GUnet und Yubico)

wwWallet:
An open, web-based wallet

The Jury

Jury "EUdi Wallet Prototypes"

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)

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.

Another FUNKE conference is already planned for December 2024. Keep updated!

A man is using a smartphone on which you can see a EUDI Wallet Prototype
A woman stands on stage at a conference and speaks to interested participants
Three people stand on stage and talk about the project
Conference participants talk
Conference participants take a look at the various projects

FAQ

The start-up budgets provided for each team are intended for the duration of the SPRIND Funke Challenge. Teams should plan their resources accordingly in order to complete their project successfully. However, it is also possible to spend any remaining money beyond the Funke funding period.

All expenses that serve to achieve the Funke goal can be paid with SPRIND funds. The start-up budget made available to each team is intended to cover the costs of research and development, material procurement, and any travel and accommodation costs that are incurred as part of the Funke. This can include, for example, personnel costs, equipment and materials, or rent.

The criteria and evaluation process for the performance of the Funke EUDI Wallet prototype will be made transparent and communicated to the teams prior to the event. This can include aspects such as innovation potential and implementation.

In the Funded Track, the prototypes must be published in full as open source by the end of each stage at the latest (see respective agreement for license conditions). Publication of the source code is not mandatory in the Non-Funding Track, but the code must be made available to SPRIND and the jury for the purpose of review.

STAGE 1: They must issue and present Person Identification Data (PID) based on the online ID function of the state-issued ID card.

STAGE 2: They must issue and present Electronic Attestations of Attributes (EAAs).

STAGE 3: They must permit pseudonymous login to Relying Parties and assist with the LSP POTENTIAL.

Teams in the Non-Funding Track do not receive any funding from SPRIND, but are closely involved in accompanying measures of the Funke and benefit from the SPRIND network. To apply for the Non-Funding Track, the corresponding button must be selected on the application form. For the Non-Funding Track, all requirements, assessment criteria, and statges of the Funded Tracks apply. Publishing the source code is not mandatory, but the code must be made available in a repository to SPRIND and the jury for review purposes.

The codes of the teams that took part in the Funke can be found here.

Do you have further questions?

Please feel free to contact us at funke-eudi@sprind.org.

Jano Costard, Challenge Officer
Jano Costard, Challenge Officer

*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.

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