Funke EUDI WALLET Prototypes

Description

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.